In this article I would like to show how JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and Java servlet can be used together in a little AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) application. To give brief description to those who are not closely familiar with JSON – JSON is a lightweight syntax for representing data, which makes working with [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: ajax, java, javascript, json, servlets, xml on Sep 13th, 2009 14:00
Last Friday as I was working, I was asked to get some information from the application logs for a particular period of time. I needed to extract some data and count the results. The given period was last twelve months. Luckily I am working with Linux, so I opened a shell session and typed the [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: linux on Sep 8th, 2009 11:14
I came across a blog by a company called Illation. What those guys do is compare performance of several rule engines available on the market: Drools, ILog, OPSJ and Jess. The stress tests cover different aspects, for example: Rules firing time Data load time Memory usage Pre-run memory used Post-run memory used The test results [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: drools, java on Sep 5th, 2009 11:15
My colleague Ila, has developed an iPhone app that reads out phone numbers from the phone book when you need it. Ila has requested some of us to “contribute” our voices for his app So now my voice is the “Russian Alex” option, along side with “English Bob”… hehe…
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: iPhone on Sep 3rd, 2009 09:24
Australian web hosting provider from Melbourne, Melbourne IT has launched cloud computing services together with VMware. The service is still in beta mode and it is called “vCloud Express” Its nice to see local provider offering cloud computing services as other big players on the market. A lot of customers having second thoughts to trust [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: it on Sep 2nd, 2009 20:03