Blog archive – page 5
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Send email with iCalendar events from your website
Let’s say your website or intranet contains information about events, seminars or courses. Your visitors can view them and subscribe online to attend the events. Wouldn’t it be nice if they receive an email that contains all the event data in the...
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Coffee gone, is that 404 or 410?
The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) is most known for its own status code 418 (I’m a teapot). For most other status codes the specification says that normal HTTP return codes are used to indicate difficulties of the HTCPCP...
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It works on my machine — Maven site plugin
Today I had a very strange case with the Maven site plugin using Maven 2.2. The site and the reports built fine on my machine but failed on several other machines. One of these was the server that hosts the documentation so I had to fix it. It failed...
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Freemarker as HST rendering template
The common templating engine for HST sites is JSP. Most Java web developers know it and there are plenty of libraries available. However JSP is not the only possibility to render your page. Woonsan wrote blogposts about using Spring MVC with the HST....
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Open sourced my Hippo blog
Half a year ago I started making my own blog using Hippo CMS and Hippo Site Toolkit. I didn’t like the Blogger tagsoup, wanted to use HTML5 and CSS3. I also wanted to control my data. Yes there are maybe more blogging engines than toothpaste brands...
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Videos of the Fronteers 2010 conference
Back in 1995 the web was pretty simple. Most webpages were either boring serif text on a grey background or were completely built up with images which made them very slow to load in Mosaïc using a 14k4 modem. Then the font, blink and marquee tags...