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Creating dynamic PDF, or another reason to like Apache Tapestry

August 21, 2009 Niclas Meier Apache, HTTP, Java, JSF, PDF, Tapestry, 0

I am using Apache Tapestry 5 on my job since February of this year. Today was another of these days when I am pretty sure why it is a good idea to use this framework.

Excited about Tapestry 5.1

January 11, 2009 Niclas Meier HTTP, Tapestry, Web 2.0, 0

One of the blogs I am reading on a regular basis is the Tapestry Central blog from Howard Lewis Ship the founder and lead developer of the Tapestry framework. It alreaded provided some really nice ideas and introduced me into some really interesting topics. So this weekend I read the article about some new Features [...]

Tomcat 6.x … doing it the right way!

July 19, 2008 Niclas Meier Apache, HTTP, Tomcat, Webserver, 1

Some days ago I posted a blog entry about using Glassfish v2 EJBs with the Tomcat. At this moment I thought that I solved the problems, but last week we were setting our testing evironment on a Debian Linux box and the problems reoccured. At this moment I thought of a glitch in the server [...]

Still messing around with “ETag” and “Last-Modified”

May 22, 2008 Niclas Meier Apache, HTTP, Tomcat, Web 2.0, 0

Stating with this whole website performance an ETag topic opened pandoras box. It’s a real mess and lame compromises all over the place. But I have to admit that the whole thing is not as easy as I expected it to be. Anyway … today I had a nice discussion with a colleague about this [...]

An ETag is not about aliens

May 18, 2008 Niclas Meier Apache, HTTP, Servlet, Technology, Webserver, 0

So what is this ETag thing. I am working since 1998 in the web business but I came across ETags some weeks ago when some of my customers starting to worry about their perfomace. Don’t get me wrong, out apllication worked – as always – fine, but some pages where slower as the equivalent pages [...]

who I am

Hi, my name is Niclas. I am a passionate software engineer working at a kick-ass startup, which will reinvent the experience of sport fans across the world. I like new challenges and I am a certified internet and video games addict with an academic degree. I created this blog to share some of my thoughts with anyone who is interested.

I suppose most of this stuff will be internet and programming related, but we will see. Critics and other kinds of feedback will be greatly appriciated.