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Responsive Design with CSS Media Queries Matt Raible
In preparation for my upcoming talk on Bootstrap and CSS3 , I figured it was high time I made this blog responsive. Making my new theme mobile-friendly has been on my todo list ever since last year's redesign . I also took the opportunity to 1) remove the...
Happy 10 Year AppFuse! Matt Raible
10 years ago yesterday, I released the first version of AppFuse . It started with XDoclet generating ActionForms from POJOs and became very popular for Struts developers that wanted to use Hibernate. The project's popularity peaked in 2006, as you can see...
Devoxx France: A Great Conference in a Magnificent City Matt Raible
This week, my lovely fiancé and I traveled to the City of Light . Our journey was designed around some speaking engagements at Devoxx France. Devoxx is one of my favorite conference franchises and Devoxx France has been special to me ever since the Devoxx...
Upgrading Grails from 2.0 to 2.2 Matt Raible
In preparation for my Grails vs. Play Smackdown at Devoxx France next week, I recently upgraded my Grails version of Happy Trails from Grails 2.0.3 to Grails 2.2.1. I ran into a few issues along the way and figured I'd document them here to help others...
How do you choose web framework candidates to compare? Matt Raible
David Díaz Clavijo sent me an email a couple weeks ago asking me about comparing web frameworks. David is a computer engineering student at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) in the Canary Islands, Spain. His FYP (Final Year Project) is a...