According to O’Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is on a surprising decrease path (although [...]
You have to know that I’ve tried. Honestly, I did. I hoped to be able to read each and every page of “Java persistence with Hibernate” (revised edition of “Hibernate in action”), by Christian Bauer and Gavin King. But, I gave up before reading a third of it, then I continued only reading some sections. [...]
Very easy:
start by adding the default-character-set=utf8 in your MySQL configuration file and restart the database server
apply this recipe from Activestate Python Cookbook (”guaranteed conversion to unicode or byte string”)
inside the Cheetah template, use the ReplaceNone filter:
#filter ReplaceNone
${myUnicodeString}
#end filter
in order to prevent escaping non-ASCII characters.
Now. That’s better.
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The Servlet 2.3 specifications introduced the notion of servlet filters, powerful tools but unfortunately used in quite unimaginative ways. Let’s take for instance this ONJava article (”Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have”) written by one of the coauthors to Servlets and JavaServer Pages; the J2EE Web Tier (a well-known servlets and JSP book [...]
In order to read Allen Holub's new book, you'll certainly need some programming skills (Java, OOP and patterns to be more specific). On the back of the book, there's specified 'Intermediate to Advanced'. It certainly depends on what you mean by 'Intermediate'… because the book is not exactly a light read. But then again, we [...]
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