I finally got a UI designer to complete the mockups for my site. And when it was time to get the HTML markup, he suggested I use a “Design to HTML” service. There is lots of them out there. You pretty much give them the Photoshop PSD file, and in return they provide you with XHTML/CSS markup. So...

I have decided to blog about this, as I have had never ending problems in the past to try and get this configured. Here is the scenario; you have a project that requires hosting a single website in a single web domain, but you have a mix of PHP applications and Java (or in my instance, GRAILS) applications...

So you wake up in a cold sweat one night as you are in a ‘half sleep”. While you were in this delirious moment, you conjure up the most amazing idea that is going to make you a bazillion dollars and no one has done it before!!!!! ho hum…………………..BORING!!!! This...

In a recent project I was working on I had a requirement to be able to set up Quartz jobs programatically as the application is running. So in other words, when the app is started, there are no jobs scheduled or running, but through a user interface, create jobs and schedule them. I could not find any...

I am a big fan of the Apple AppStore process, and I find myself buying anything that I think will be useful. And generally they work. But recently, I bought an App that just would not work for me. So a disclaimer; The application was Mini Confluence, which is an Atlassian Confluence Client for the iPhone....

I recently re-discovered a power feature on Firefox, and its ability to use keywords to help Firefox know which search engine you want to use without having to select it from the search engine lists. Why do this, well if you are like me, and get annoyed at the need of selecting a search engine form...

Some great work has come out of the plugins available for Grails. One of my favorite is the Active MQ (and JMS) plugins that allow grails (very easily) to integrate Java message. I have used these before, but then come up against an issue when upgrading my projects to Grails 1.2 M2. They stopped working!!! So...

For those of you that know me, you will know that I am a big fan of Grails and Groovy. This week we have had 2 huge announcements. Firstly that VMWare has acquired SpringSource (Groovy and Grails custodian), and then Grails 1.2 M2 got released yesterday. I downloaded 1.2 M2 last night and I am super...

Don’t you find that when you get a small team working on a project, that they end up being far more productive compared to when you load that team up with many developers, designers, testers etc? Well I have, so much so, that I tried to formalize it at Aegeon. We called it ‘trailblazing’...

I recently read a blog posting from Seth Godin, that really hit the spot with me. Selling to business (particularly to small business) can be particularly challenging. Not only will they want exceptional value for their investment and ensure low costs, but they are extremely sceptical. More so than...