Todays read: BBC Glow
“Ouh, shiny! BBC’s Glow is finally out”
I found this article in ajaxian.com. Read the article here.
This article is about a new JavaScript framework recently open sourced by BBC. BBC Glow. BBC uses this framework in their websites. It’s too early for me to say whether this is a cool stuff to work with. Anyways you can try to make your hands dirty with “Glow”. Have a nice “Glow” time.
What is BBC Glow?
Glow is a JavaScript library which aims to make working with JavaScript and the DOM easier. It tries to do this by abstracting common tasks, hiding cross-browser issues, and providing a set of user interface widgets.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/
BBC Glow is free and open source.
Related links
What is Glow?
Getting started
More documentation
Firefox 3.5
And we now have Firefox 3.5, which they claims to the better, faster, safer & smarter one yet, with lot of new features like private browsing, improved awesome bar, cross site XHR.
Today’s read: Better writing skills
This one good, in fact great I guess. Who does not want to write better English every time ! If you really want to improve your writing skills, improve the usage of punctuations, want to know about the common writing mistakes; this one is for you.
Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don’t come overnight, and they require patience and determination. You have to work smart and hard to acquire them. Only with experience, you can enter the realm of effective, always-in-demand writers.
Read the article here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/28/50-free-resources-that-will-improve-your-writing-skills/
Source: Smashing Magazine
Today’s read: 10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards
A Smashing Magazine article on making a website accessible using web standards. Nice read.
Let’s take a look at 10 ways to improve the accessibility of your XHTML website by making it standards-compliant. We’ll go the extra mile and include criteria that fall beyond the standards set by the W3C but which you should follow to make your website more accessible. Each section lists the criteria you need to meet, explains why you need to meet them and gives examples of what you should and shouldn’t do.
Read the article here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/18/10-ways-to-make-your-site-accessible-using-web-standards/
A JBoss 5.1.0 Exception !
This is about another exception you may get while playing around with JBoss, Transactions, Remote EJBs etc. And the exception is:
org.jboss.resource.JBossResourceException:
Could not enlist in transaction on entering meta-aware object!
My friend Venu had a post in his blog on why this exception happens and how to fix it in JBoss 5.0. You can read it here. But if we are using JBoss 5.1.0 this solution cannot help us. Because there are a couple of changes in the configuration in this new version of JBoss. In fact if you can take a look at the JBoss 5.1.0 GA release notes we can see a lot of changes in configuration especially if we are migrating from JBoss 5.0 to 5.1.
And here is the solution.
Open the JBOSS_HOME/server/JBOSS_CONFIGURATION/conf/jbossts-properties.xml. Set the following.
<!-- Support subtransactions in the JTA layer? Default is NO. --> <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.supportSubtransactions" value="YES"/>
Hope this helps.
P.S. If you have any more details in this issue, please feel free to share it. Thank you.
