Coding Clarity

Writing simple, clear and readable code.

Browsing Posts published in October, 2007

There has been a lot of buzz about Ruby in recent days, particularly around Ruby on Rails. I love these Ruby on Rails vs. X commercials that www.railsenvy.com has created. Rails provides a much better framework for the “web backed by a database” problem than anything I have seen in the pure Java world. Java [...]

I ran into a situation the other day where I needed to connect to a remote Web server from a server side application. This web server requires HTTP authentication. The user sets the Web Server location from a configuration file. What I wanted to be able to do was have the user enter the URL [...]