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New Article: Making XP-style Icons
My “week” vacation turned into something more of a “two week” break! But I’m back, and I’m excited to say that SitePoint just published the third and last article in my series. Please visit Create XP-style Icons Using Illustrator or Freehand, which takes the foundational Illustrator/Freehand techniques from my previous two articles and combines them into a real-life practical application!
Enjoy!
Quick-and-dirty Web Development with Java Studio Creator
Sun’s latest push to make Java a more attractive platform for smaller Web developers came in the form of Java Studio Creator, first released in the middle of this year. Sun last week announced a free update to the product that would now support Mac OS X, although from what I can tell this has actually been out since August.
Bogus press releases aside, Studio Creator came from criticism that there were no easy-to-use tools for putting together Java Web applications in a hurry without getting up to your elbows in code, the way you can throw together an ASP.NET application in Visual Studio .NET.
Java Studio Creator takes full advantage of the latest standard for designing Java Web application interfaces: JavaServer Faces. With JavaServer Faces, you no longer have to build your Web application interfaces out of HTML form tags, but you can instead use a collection of more advanced components that generate the HTML code for you. These components provide facilities for validating user input and maintaining the contents and selections in a form for a particular user across requests.
Developing a Java Web application in Studio Creator becomes a very quick-and-dirty process, which is often just what …
.NET Hiatus
The Daily Catch is on a brief hiatus at present, as Phil turns his attentions to his PhD.
We’re currently sourcing a new blogger, so watch this space over coming weeks as we introduce SitePoint’s new .NET guru…
