Web Programming

Working with Java on OS-X: Tips and Tricks

Beren Erchamion
August 5, 2014

Working with Java on OS-X Mavericks/Yosemite can have its pit falls…well working with Java on anything has pit falls, but OS-X has its own quirks. I’ve been working with Java for longer than I can believe – I suppose I…

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OS-X, NGINX, and Symfony2 – What a Party!

Beren Erchamion
July 27, 2014

Google on OS-X, nginx, and Symfony2 and you’ll pull up a ton of posts. However I find them all confusing or missing pieces. Maybe I’m getting slow…maybe I’m not the command line guru…but in this post I will give you…

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Drupal 8 Content Types and Views

Beren Erchamion
March 23, 2014

Drupal 8 content types and views are a core capability in the CMS. With D8 getting pretty close to ready for betas it is a good time to play around with these. We’ll take a look at all the basics…

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Drupal 8 – Progress – Image Uploads

Beren Erchamion
January 3, 2014

I’ve been following Drupal 8 for over a year. I noticed today that in the current trunk is included an out of the box image upload capability. Very cool – finally…after all these years. What the heck will I write…

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Web Programming

Drupal 8 – A Bold and Daring Release Pt. 2

Beren Erchamion
July 2, 2013

A few weeks back I started looking at the upcoming bold and daring release of Drupal 8 – a very exciting project for those of us in the software engineering field because of its size, scope, and complexity. You can…

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C# .NET MVC3 vs. Symfony2

Beren Erchamion
June 22, 2013

Who doesn’t like to mess around with frameworks? If ur a regular reader here then you know I do 🙂 I need a web framework for an app and Drupal probably isn’t the right fit this time. Java/J2EE isn’t a…

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