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3.2.8 Sneak Peek
Here is a sneak peek at the upcoming changes on slate for the next SoftSlate Commerce release, version 3.2.8. Area Version Description developer 3.2.8.1 Support for optionally using Google Guice to inject business object and DAO dependencies developer 3.2.8.1 The … Continue reading
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Java vs. PHP – the Essential Factor
Which language do you prefer? And what’s the essential factor for you? Continue reading
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Homage to Our Awesome Clients
Inspired by our awesome clients, a list of some of the crazy stuff you can buy with SoftSlate Commerce. Continue reading
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Testing Has a Point of Diminishing Returns
Testing of course is vital, if not central, to programming. That said, there is a point of diminishing returns where it takes up more time than its worth. The line is crossed at different points depending on the situation. Continue reading
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Automated Functional Testing with JMeter
Jmeter bills itself more as a load testing tool, but we’ve used it extensively for functional testing as well. For us, functional testing amounts to pretending you are a (single) user hitting the application with various requests on the way … Continue reading
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Apache mod_cache in the Real World
I thought I’d share our experiences implementing Apache’s mod_cache. We wanted to implement caching of product and category pages for the SoftSlate Commerce Java shopping cart application of one of our clients. The product and category pages of an ecommerce … Continue reading
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Dave’s Lazy Testing Technique
I often find there’s an underlying assumption that when software breaks it’s because it wasn’t tested enough. Granted, there’s a lot of crappy, buggy software, but finding any one particular bug doesn’t signify that the app needed to be tested … Continue reading
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Phone Number Formatting Fun
In my spare time, I enjoy researching how best to format phone numbers. That should give you some indication of the depths of the problems in my social life. Seriously, how many different ways are there to write down a … Continue reading
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Google Suffers from Home Page-itis
I had to look it up. It was Henry David Thoreau who said, “Simplify, simplify, simplify.” I always wondered why he said it three times. Would it have been simpler to say it just once? Google broke the rule in … Continue reading
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In Defense of the Legacy Application
It was an exciting time. At the small web development firm I worked at, we got the go ahead to rewrite from scratch one of our client’s websites. The task was to replace a Content Management System written in Cold … Continue reading
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