Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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RichFaces Modal Panels, s:graphicImage, and IE6
If, like me, you are using the Seam s:graphicImage tag to serve an image from within a RichFaces modal panel, you may have run into an issue where in IE6 the image does not get displayed, and you get the dreaded red X of failure. It works fine in all other browsers, including IE7, and…
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Spring is Upon Us
I took my motorcycle for the first ride of the season today. Took a little coaxing to get her started, but then it was just great. Nice day for a ride, the bike was running well, traffic was smooth, I couldn’t ask for more. I just did a short ride, to the library and back,…
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Seam EntityHome Design Pattern
I’ve been using Seam for over a year. At some point the “Home” object was introduced to the documentation (Chapter 11). Reading the documentation didn’t convince me of the point. Being an ATG guy at heart, I still prefer using “form handlers” for managing my important entities. So I haven’t bothered. However, just recently I…
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Busy Times
This week has been pretty crazy, and the upcoming few weeks look at least as bad. I’m working my regular full time job (and trying to figure out where that’s going), I’m working on another big development project after-hours, I’m working on a possible collaboration project, I’m developing a software project development methodology, and handling…
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Physical Workspace
My physical work area is a key component of my productivity and happiness. One of the advantages of working remotely is that you can really work anywhere, as long as you have internet access and cell phone reception. I try to work about one day a week from a coffee house with some friends to…
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Getting the Real IP Address from a Proxied Request in ATG
Many things can obscure the real IP address of the end user when they visit your site: a load balancer in front of your ATG cluster, Akamai, the user’s ISP or office network, and more. This makes correlating logging events, or using the ATG session IP validation security option, and more, very difficult. In light…
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