A Modest Construct

Posts tagged `Java`

¶ Using YUI compressor in a web project

Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion).

After the initial learning curve, this has all been going swimmingly. I merged my first development branch into the trunk yesterday, and this branch just so happens to dovetail nicely into the whole point of this post, which is the YUI compressor, an open-source javascript and CSS minification tool developed by Yahoo’s YUI team.

¶ On Cleveland, briefly

You may recall that I’ve been to Cleveland before (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); this year, I was there once again, for the same reason, namely the annual CampusEAI conference.

Our addition to the program this year was relatively recent occurrence, and so this conference came as a bit of a surprise, wedged as it is just before I leave next Monday for the Portal 2008 conference at Gettysburg College.

¶ Various and sundry technology stuff pertaining to work

I don’t usually talk about work on this blog, simply because I’ve read enough horror stories about blogging work matters to know how badly it ends. Granted, if I were to blog about my job, it would mostly consist of technology bits, but it’s still one of those grey areas I avoid out of propriety.

Yet, I find myself at home, with a White Russian and the urge to opine.