Keeping the ghost of Internet Explorer 7 at bay in IE10
I recently ran into a problem with a webpage rendering different on two computers running the same version of Internet Explorer. For some reason one of them rendered the page in compatibility view mode...
View ArticleSpark
Spark is a Sinatra inspired open source web framework for quickly creating web applications in Java with minimal effort. Spark focuses on being as simple and straight-forward as possible, without the...
View ArticleFonts as scalable vector graphics
How can you deal with one of the bigger problems in client development; the increasing fragmentation that is a result of multiple size, resolution and pixel density in the displays today? Consider the...
View ArticleDon't lose focus of your anchors
This really isn't news and this specific issue has been repeated on many accessibility oriented blogs over the years. But since I regularly see this mistake being made over and over again, I think it's...
View ArticleMaking SignalR work in IE8 with Chrome Frame
On a recent project we have developed a single page type web application. We chose to power it with knockoutjs and SignalR, which was a great idea except for one small caveat: the customers target […]
View ArticleWeb development environment scripting
Sometimes getting a web project running on your development machine requires a lot more work than simply doing a [crayon-5456d35b1bb74853418279/] Inspired by my colleagues Anders Janmyr, who wrote the...
View ArticleTunneling to localhost via SSH
Sometimes when working with a new web site I have customers who want to see the site while it is still in development. One way of doing this is to have alternative demo servers […]
View ArticleAsync Servlets
It is now about four and a half years since the Servlet 3.0 specification was released in December 2009, together with Java EE 6. One feature that came in Servlet 3.0 was the possibility […]
View ArticleJay Librarian – Jayway’s Book Management System
It all has started as a competence project. At Jayway we have a practice of combining competence development with developing of some useful applications that we would use in our company. We have had […]
View ArticleFlexbox Centering Cheatsheet
This last year I have had the pleasure of using Flexbox regularly at work. I have had some trouble with memorizing the relationship between flex-direction, align-items and justify-content, specifically...
View ArticleBrowser support does not have to be a binary choice
I have more often than not been faced with the following scenario; a client, a colleague or maybe a project manager will ask the old-as-dirt question: “What browsers should be supported in this...
View ArticleWeb development with Elixir
I created a small hobby project, an online comic book reader, using the fairly new programming language Elixir and a framework called Phoenix which I knew nothing about. These are my experiences and...
View ArticleLooking at UX trends
Now when 2014 is closing we took the time and gather a few Jaywayers to look at UX trends found in ongoing projects. This is our very personal thoughts and reflections of these trends […] The post...
View ArticleTesting of hybrid mobile applications
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native “wrapper” for the different […] The...
View ArticleGzipping in Pedestal + Jetty 9.3
There is a sample in the Pedestal repo for how to get responses gzip compressed by using the GzipFilter from Jetty 9.2. This filter has, however, been removed in Jetty 9.3 and perhaps you […] The post...
View Article6 Reasons Isomorphic Web Apps is not the Silver Bullet You’re Looking For
During the last two years, I’ve heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I’ve done some thinking myself about the technique. My...
View ArticleAsync Servlets
It is now about four and a half years since the Servlet 3.0 specification was released in December 2009, together with Java EE 6. One feature that came in Servlet 3.0 was the possibility to decouple an...
View ArticleJay Librarian – Jayway’s Book Management System
It all has started as a competence project. At Jayway we have a practice of combining competence development with developing of some useful applications that we would use in our company. We have had...
View ArticleFlexbox Centering Cheatsheet
This last year I have had the pleasure of using Flexbox regularly at work. I have had some trouble with memorizing the relationship between flex-direction, align-items and justify-content, specifically...
View ArticleBrowser support does not have to be a binary choice
I have more often than not been faced with the following scenario; a client, a colleague or maybe a project manager will ask the old-as-dirt question: “What browsers should be supported in this...
View Article