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I've been thinking a bit about authentication and authorization lately, and while I may have my head semi-wrapped around authentication ...

It's easy to write your own JUnit test-runner. A developer on the java-platform often writes code in the context of some framework or ...

I've started dusting off my old littleware project over the last month or so on a "dev" branch in github. As part of the clea...

An old-school PHP, Struts, JSF, Rails what have you webapp was deployed with a strong binding between the application's UX and backen...

The web project I work on has an old-school login with username and password, check the hash in the database, and set a cookie design th...

When transitioning from a virtual machine based deployment model to a container based model there are at least two ways to version an ap...

We started using bower to manage third party dependencies in our projects, and realized that we could also use bower to help decompos...

A re-usable javascript component that depends on jQuery may need to repackage jQuery in a custom namespace to avoid overriding other versi...

I bumped up littleware's build to pull in JEE7 jars , and also went ahead and setup a jdk8 pre-release runtime, and so far everythin...

I spent a few frustrating hours last week trying to figure out why PUT requests to a littleware web service I'm developing failed w...

I had to google around a little bit to figure out how to enable glassfish's built-in HTTP gzip compression in my little fishRunner tool...

I finally have my little ToDo app wired up with openID authentication. I'm running an openid4java based relying party , littleId, o...

I wired up a little fishRunner tool (https://github.com/frickjack/littleware-fishRunner) that deploys a java web archive (.war file) to ...

I used an SVG file as the src attribute of an HTML img to solve two problems over the last couple weeks. First, I was working on an HTML...

I finally have an initial version of a little to do application running using the "tree control flow" stuff I described earlier ...

YUI recently added a cool Promises module that I've been using the last couple weeks to implement client-side API's for a webapp...

Using CSS transitions to animate the opacity of images is a great way to implement a web slideshow, but implementing an animation-based fa...

It turns out that wiring up phantomjs to process a web page that runs a test suite based on yui's test module is pretty easy to do. ...

I wired up a proof of concept responsive browser UI that implements an application's views as a series of panels. A single panel hold...

Things can get weird when java SE code developed with IOC is deployed into a java EE container that implements CDI. For example - the li...