Tag Archives: web

Readability Über Alles

Well we all agree that code should be readable, but what on websites? Most of the times the font is too small, there are banners around, weird colour combinations, today by coincidence I found this awesome application.

READABILITY is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what [...]

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Tibco GI? No thanks

Recently we tried TIBCO GI, I’ve to say that I’ve not been particularly happy with it, here is my list of cons:

Not easy to test: impossible to test headless (is not supported by htmlunit), impossible to test with webdriver: Tibco provides a “Test Automation Kit”, however we had to write an extension of SeleniumServer in [...]

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Waffles are good, do you fancy a Waffle?

During ThoughtWorks University XI we took the decision to introduce to the trainees Waffle as an example of MVC framework. 
I’ve been impressed by the simplicity of the framework. It has been a while since the last time I’ve played with any Java Web Framework ( I think it was around 6 years ago the last [...]

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