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I came across an interesting interview with Mono’s Miguel de Icaza recently, in which he discusses .Net and J2EE integration, amongst other things, and the GrassHopper project to run ASP.Net on top of J2EE. The argument for doing so is that J2EE is unassailable inthe high-end market ($2million plus), but that development shops find it […]

The Code Behind the Harry Potter Theory Post
As regular readers will know, I’m spending a lot of my time at the moment writing a gripping adventure book ‘Ajax in Action’, in which our hero, a young half-ancient greek, half-dutch football player combats the forces of darkness armed only with a bottle of cleaning fluid. Oh, […]

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What about the new harry potter book, eh? I finished reading it last night and was fairly blown away. Here’s a few of my pet theories about what was going on, and some predictions for book 7.

Let’s […]

JSON - the JavaScript Object Notation - is a very neat way of generating object graphs concisely in java. I’ve recently used it in conjunction with JSPs to generate some data dynamically, and was rather pleased to see that it allows lists to be defined with a trailing comma, like this:

var mydata=[
1,
[…]