Grails Syntax Highlighter Plugin Released

Posted by Erik Pragt at around evening time: May 20, 2008

Grails syntax highlighter plugin

Yesterday, I released my first plugin for Grails. The goal of the plugin is to do Syntax Highlighting for Code Snippets in HTML pages, for which no plugin existed yet. The plugin supports a whole range of languages, and even includes Groovy Highlighting support. The Grails Synax Highlighter builds on the great work of Alex Gorbatchev, who wrote and maintains the Javascript Syntax Highlighter.
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JavaOne 2008 Day Four: That’s a wrap!

Posted by Mischa Dasberg in the early evening: May 10, 2008

Today was the last day of the JavaOne Conference. We came to the point when a lot of OutOfMemoryErrors where thrown. We just managed to squeeze in the last sessions.

Today's keynote was all about toys. The guys from the Netbeans team showed some new features such as a JavaScript editor (which contains code completion), Sentilla showed there small sensor thingies, which you can program to gather information, such as acceleration, temperature etc.., LiveScribe showed there very cool pen and lots more.

Today's topic included:

  • User Experience
  • SOA
  • Semantic Web

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Importance of Usability in Enterprise IT

Posted by ShriKant Vashishtha just before lunchtime: April 18, 2008

These days a lot of big organizations are spending a good amount of money on making their websites more usable. And you may want to know why?

Think about a Fortune 50 organization (with around 100 thousands employee strength) which has many web applications working across the organization. It may have intranet applications, some business applications etc to facilitate business in effective way. These organizations spend a lot of money on IT spending and generally require many new applications every quarter. Now think about a case where all these new web based applications are different in their look and feel (navigation, fonts, colors etc) from each other.
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