Monthly Archives: October 2008

Vertically Aligning Images with jQuery

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

I have often needed the to fulfil the requirement of aligning an image to the middle of a specified height. In the old table based way of doing it was pretty easy. All you needed to do was valign=”middle” on … Continue reading →

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Brr!

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Jan Machacek

The weather turned rather cold in Manchester. And by cold I mean freezing cold by UK standards, -1 °C. Still, the car had its weekly outing to Tesco on Sunday and probably wouldn’t start anyway, so I was on my … Continue reading →

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SpringSource dm Server in Action

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Jan Machacek

We’re excited to tell you that our new book, SpringSource dm Server in Action, is now available under the Manning Early Access Program. As you can guess, the book focuses on the dm Server and its impact on the world … Continue reading →

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dm Server Migration Episode IV

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Jan Machacek

We have just contributed our own videocast to the YouTube black hole. It is the first out of three videos that deal with migrating Java EE applications to the dm Server. This first part (for some strange reason, we decided … Continue reading →

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And the winner is…

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Jan Machacek

We’ve received the cover designs for our book, dm Server in Action. We had three choices and the final scores are: In the third place miserable looking so and so, whose pen hides Ani’s name! In the second place, a … Continue reading →

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jQuery Presentation at the Spring User Group in London

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

Here is the presentation I gave on jQuery at the Spring User Group in London. Q&A session for the whole event is at the end. Some people attended the Spring event because of the jQuery talk. Bonus!!

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Migrating J2EE web application to the dm Server

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Jan Machacek

Aleksa and I gave talk at the Spring in Finance Exchange in London on Friday 10th October. We took a large Java EE web application (a huge 22MB WAR file) and deployed it in the dm Server. And it worked! … Continue reading →

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dm Server

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Jan Machacek

SpringSource have released the GA version of the dm Server. The dm Server is an OSGi-based Java EE application server. OSGi what? OSGi will allow you to keep the structure of your application even at runtime. You will be able … Continue reading →

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