Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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ATG Development Practices
In a series of blog postings, and hopefully with substantial input from the ATG community, I am going to try to define ATG development best practices. From how to run a development project, to coding standards, and more. I know it will be impossible to make a perfect set of practices for everyone, there is…
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Star Wars and Indiana Jones
I was watching Indiana Jones movies last night with Emma, preparing to watch the new Indiana Jones movie, and I noticed a couple of things. First, at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the nightclub that Indiana Jones and Willie Scott escape from is called “Club Obi Wan”, a clear reference…
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JBoss jsessionid Query Parameter Removal
Instead of just using the Apache mod_rewrite rules from my post on “Hiding jsessionid parameters from Google“, which uses redirects, wouldn’t it be better to simply not output the jsessionid parameter into the URLs? First, what are those jsessionid params, and why are they there? For a web application to have state, i.e. remember things…
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MythBusters on CSI
MythBusters on CSII don’t watch a ton of TV, but I like Tivo-ing CSI Las Vegas. Last night we watched an episode from a couple weeks ago, and much to our delight saw Jamie and Adam from MythBusters watching a lab test involving burning things. It was hilarious. Also, I think it means we’re geeks.…
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GWT In Practice
I occasionally review technical book manuscripts for a couple of publishing companies. I reviewed GWT In Practice by Robert T. Cooper and Charlie E. Collins published by Manning, which just came out. First off, it’s a great book, and if you’re working with GWT or want to work with GWT, I highly recommend it. Secondly,…
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Hiding jsessionid parameter from Google
If you’re running a website on JBoss you may discover that Google has indexed your pages with a jsessionid query parameter in the links. The Google crawl bot does not support cookies, therefore JBoss uses the jsessionid query parameter in order to maintain a session state without cookies. These query parameters can impact your Google…
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