This post is a collection of useful links that I frequently use. Hope you find them useful too. Feel free to post you favorite links and I'll add them to this post.
Tips
1. Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website
2. URL Rewriting
3. Compressing PNG Files
4. How to create ICO Files in Photoshop?
5. Create valid SSL certificate recognized by most browsers @ www.startssl.com
Frameworks
1. My very own Wingsource Project
Currently under development. Check SVN repository to find all the exciting stuff, Samik and I are working on
2. Enabling security in a web application using SpringSecurity
The article is slightly outdated (it's written for SpringSecurity 2.0.4; the latest one is v3.0.4) but, still useful to get started with SpringSecurity.
3. Jquery - My favorite Javascript Framework
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Showing posts with label web. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Friday, June 12, 2009
iGoogle like interface using Apache Shindig + JQuery
Shindig is a very useful Apache project currently in incubation. It provides a gadget server, social data server and javascript gadgets.* and opensocial.* APIs.
My team at Wipro has been working on Apache Shindig since July 2008 and, we have successfully put together a framework that allows rapid development of Social Enterprise applications. This framework is called WiproWeb2Works and, provides among other things, a fully functional igoogle-like container for gadgets. We have in fact put a reference implementation of WiproWeb2Works framework - Festa on the Web for any one to get a feel of a "portal" application based on Apache Shindig. I'd encourage you to register (free!) and try it out today.
In my honest opinion, Shindig is the best way to jumpstart development of a Web 2.0 content mashup/social application. While this is great news for those of us that want to quickly create slick applications, there are some rough edges though that need to be ironed out to make it production ready.
Shindig provides a sample container right out of the box. This container is as elementary as a "hello world" application that you try in Chapter 1 of any book. It hardly demonstrates the power of Shindig or the potential it holds for building an app that looks & feels like iGoogle.
In the remainder sections, I'd focus on the Container development in particular and, share tips & tricks to help you learn from our mistakes and, build apps that are better and faster than portal apps.
There are plenty of articles out there on building websites that look like igoogle. Here are 2 of my favorites -
(1) A JQuery based iGoogle interface by James Padolsey
(2) A Dojo based iGoogle interface by Matthew Russell
In the first article, James has provided a fully functional browser compatible source code on implementing an interface with drag & drop niceties. In the second article, Matthew shares his experience of implementing a shindig container using dojo.
To be continued...
My team at Wipro has been working on Apache Shindig since July 2008 and, we have successfully put together a framework that allows rapid development of Social Enterprise applications. This framework is called WiproWeb2Works and, provides among other things, a fully functional igoogle-like container for gadgets. We have in fact put a reference implementation of WiproWeb2Works framework - Festa on the Web for any one to get a feel of a "portal" application based on Apache Shindig. I'd encourage you to register (free!) and try it out today.
In my honest opinion, Shindig is the best way to jumpstart development of a Web 2.0 content mashup/social application. While this is great news for those of us that want to quickly create slick applications, there are some rough edges though that need to be ironed out to make it production ready.
Shindig provides a sample container right out of the box. This container is as elementary as a "hello world" application that you try in Chapter 1 of any book. It hardly demonstrates the power of Shindig or the potential it holds for building an app that looks & feels like iGoogle.
In the remainder sections, I'd focus on the Container development in particular and, share tips & tricks to help you learn from our mistakes and, build apps that are better and faster than portal apps.There are plenty of articles out there on building websites that look like igoogle. Here are 2 of my favorites -
(1) A JQuery based iGoogle interface by James Padolsey
(2) A Dojo based iGoogle interface by Matthew Russell
In the first article, James has provided a fully functional browser compatible source code on implementing an interface with drag & drop niceties. In the second article, Matthew shares his experience of implementing a shindig container using dojo.
To be continued...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Enable gzip compression on Apache web server in 3 easy steps
Make the following changes in apache/conf/httpd.conf :-
1) Uncomment "LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so"
2) Add "SetOutputFilter DEFLATE" inside <<IfModule mime_module> section
3) Add "AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css" right after SetOutputFilter... line.
Restart Apache. You should see a significant improvement in the turnaround time for your web applications. This setting works for all responses tunneled trough Apache for ex:- for java web applications deployed on a Tomcat integrated with apache web server etc.
1) Uncomment "LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so"
2) Add "SetOutputFilter DEFLATE" inside <<IfModule mime_module> section
3) Add "AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css" right after SetOutputFilter... line.
Restart Apache. You should see a significant improvement in the turnaround time for your web applications. This setting works for all responses tunneled trough Apache for ex:- for java web applications deployed on a Tomcat integrated with apache web server etc.
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