Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
During the development of our first 'real' site, http://www.myfriendsuggests.com, we never really paid too much attention to the URLs that our site was generating. We did some reading and heard that clean URLs were important for SEO reasons but at the same time we saw the GoogleBot crawling our site ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
During the development of our site, www.MyFriendSuggests.com, we needed to frequently executed the Yahoo! GeoCode and Yahoo! Local webservices. These beans make it easier to work with the results of the webservices without having to write code to parse the xml. You can download the XML beans and get an ...
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
I'm definitely no expert in website promotion, I'm in the early stages of trying to gain traffic for my new site www.myfriendsuggests.com, a web 2.0 social networking site that uses friend networks to help generate personalized suggestions for everything from places to eat, drink, party to contractors, electricians and a good local ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
The way programming languages, and even more so the frameworks and technologies used by the programming languages, go in and out of popularity with major corporations which technologies will be adapted by which industry is anyone's guess. With larger corporations always slow to pick up on the new 'cool' thing ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
The concept of constants in CSS doesn't seem to really exist. So I created a JSP page instead of a css file to make life easier, simple concept but saved me lots of time when I decided to give my site a face lift.
How I did it:
I created a file ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Figured this may help someone in the feature, sure helped me.
If you get an exception in you JSP code, the line # corresponds to the the .java file, however at least in my installation of eclipse, eclipse doesn't automatically find the file. I found the java files in:
<MYWORKSPACE>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\work\Catalina\localhost\<mycontext>\org\apache\jsp>
If you know ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
MyFriendSuggests.com is our first true web application that we have deployed for public use. We haven't really begun any official promotion other than some word of mouth emails. Basically the site is a social networking site for people to recommend restaurants, bars, clubs, hotels, local services, etc. to each other. ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Hi,
This is our first blog. Basically we decided that since we get so much good information about technology and web development from other blogs out there we would write our own. For the most part we are going to chronicle the development of our first website My Friend Suggests, both ...
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