According to the Mozilla Blog, Firefox is about to be released in an enterprise version, with releases once every year instead of once every 6:th week.
The new version of the Firefox is called Firefox Extended Support Release or simply Firefox ESR. The intention is to provide security updates continously but let the web and add-ons [...]
Christian Hilmersson
Tags: browser, enterprise, web applications
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Just came home from a very interesting conference a couple of days ago. I still feel a bit jet lagged after the long trip over the atlantic ocean from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but it was really worth the effort.
Fort Lauderdale was greeting us with a comfortable wintery weather with temperatures at around 25°C so it [...]
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This is somewhat old news by now but during this summer I ran into some problems while trying to upgrade a big Javascript code base from JQuery 1.4 to 1.6. It seems that the step to JQuery 1.6 has been cumbersome not only for me but for a lot of JQuery users out there so [...]
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Since people are using more and more devices to manage communication and planning data in their daily life, both for personal and professional use, there seems to be a growing challenge to keep the data on all those devices up to date and synchronized.
As most devices (smart phones, tablets, laptops etc) [...]
Tags: Calendar, Contacts, GMail, Google, Google Apps, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Push, synchronization
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This article covers how to setup your standard Eclipse environment with plugins from SpringSource for developing Groovy and Grails applications without using the full SpringSource Tool Suite.
Background
It is more and more common that we see other languages than Java running on the JVM. One such language is Groovy which together with the Ruby on Rails [...]
Tags: eclipse, grails, groovy, springsource tool suite
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In fast evolving projects you are most certain to find some kind of technical debt. As architects and developers we are always looking for the best mix of flexibiltiy, clarity and maintainability in our code base. To maintain the quality of the code most project have a set of coding standards and architectural guidelines which [...]
Tags: sonar, technical debt
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