Tag Archives: Java

Using Twitter oauth on GAE/J

Twitter supports oauth and there are many libraries for it, for  Java(twitter4J)(oauth-signpost),  most of the time you see examples of a desktop version, so it can take time to implement it on a web application (it did take time for my case).
Step 1. Get a Twitter account and create a Twitter application from http://twitter.com/apps (don’t [...]

Using Memcache with Google App Engine (GAE/J)

A simple beginning — Fragman iPhone Application
Memcache provides convenience to store a frequent query in memory, so that you don’t have to make the same execution over and over again. For the iPhone application I build (Fragman), I build a GAE/J backend for managing movie names, IMDB URLs, thumb images, video files, etc. It interacts [...]

A Simple Chart for a GWT Application on GAE/J

I am trying charting solutions for a GWT project and gchart seems a nice one. After some digging I create a sample project which is hosted on Google App Engine (GAE) demo. Source code is at Google project
The chart will show the remaining number of months in the current year.

First download the jar from the [...]

Back to basics — A simple beginning to Grails

I guess I can finally finish my search for a good server side companion (at least for now).  A couple years ago RIFE was my only choice but unfortunately, it didn’t work out well as I expected (RIFE is an open source project but partly because of developers like me  who uses the framework but [...]

Converting a Mysql table into a “proper” Turkish XML file

Character sets, encoding, decoding, anything related to non-English characters make me feel uncomfortable, since at each time I have problem related to these things, I spend hours just to see a proper Turkish character like “ç”.
This was again the case with an old mysql table with encoding utf8_general_ci. Before there was UTF-16 then UTF-8 now [...]