The Simple Part

Magento Search: Getting Better Results In Product Searches

Karl — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:57:40 +0000

Magento is a whopping big platform – even the community edition is something of a beast. That gives it a nasty learning curve, and while, in most cases, it simply works, there are some places where it tries to be clever, … Continue reading →

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Visualizing data with Google Maps

Karl — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:28:51 +0000

A few weeks ago, a club I’m a member of was updating its membership information. Since the data was being collected in a Google spread sheet, I thought it would be interesting to create a map visualization to show where … Continue reading →

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jQuery Plugins on jQuery Plugins

Karl — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:39:54 +0000

No, it’s not some kind of wierd coder pr0n. Just released some of my scripts on the jQuery plugin repository at http://plugins.jquery.com/users/karlagius/track Aiming to release the contact list plugin on to the WordPress repository next, when and if I have … Continue reading →

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Because we can

Karl — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:24:02 +0000

A few days ago, my next desk neighbour, Joe, put together a neat little Chrome extension which adds keyboard shortcuts for use in NeoGAF. It looked like fun, so I wanted to make one too, and, over the course of … Continue reading →

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RESTful Web Applications with Jersey and Spring

Karl — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:31:56 +0000

A couple of months ago, we were tasked with creating an API to expose some functions in our system to third party developers. We chose to expose these functions as a series of REST web services. I got to play … Continue reading →

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Message formatting in Java

Karl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:00:04 +0000

Whatever kind application you’re working on, you will probably need to create some sort of message more complex than “Hello World!” at some point. Whether it’s a log message, or some text to plonk into your nice UI, you will probably also need to format it in some way to include some variable...

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Scheduling tasks with Quartz

Karl — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Using the Quartz scheduler to control timed jobs in a Java application. Continue reading →

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Staying on top of the (Google) Wave

Karl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:13:24 +0000

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Revisiting the JavaScript Calendar Control – Part 3

Karl — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Adding AJAX based event loading to a jQuery calendar. Rendering events with microformats. Continue reading →

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Object Caching in Java with EHCache

Karl — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:00:38 +0000

Using EHCache to cache Java objects in an application. Continue reading →

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