Coming Up for Air

Monthly archives: December, 2006

Merry Christmas!

My general rule is that I avoid too much personal stuff here. I have other venues for those interested in that kind of thing, but it would be remiss of me if I did not take the time to wish a merry Christmas to those that read this blog. I truly hope your Christmas season [...]

Why CakePHP?

A reader recently asked me why I chose CakePHP over other frameworks, such as Prado, so I thought I’d answer that question briefly.

Yahoo! UI and JSF Update

I’ve had several people ask for an update on where things stand with my YUI components and their JSF component wrappers, so I figure I should take the time to answer that question.

JSF Component Writing Check List

I’ve been doing a fair amount of JSF component writing of late, and, invariably, I miss one or more “minor” details, causing my component to explode in spectacular fashion at runtime. What follows, then, is a check list for writing JSF components, with notes on the differences between the 1.1 and 1.2 versions of the [...]

Download and Multi-file Upload JSF Components

At work, we have run into two issues several times: 1) We haves app that create PDFs, and we need our JSF apps to send that to the user, and 2) we need to be able to upload multiple files to one of our JSF apps. The solutions we’ve used have been less than exciting. [...]