I just finished migrating Play’s http client to Ning’s own asynchronous library. What does it mean? A lot. When you want to retrieve data from a different server, your web application behaves like a web client. Rather than serving a resource to a client, it requests one from a different server. For example, that’s what …
In Play‘s Eclipse plugin, I just added a simple integration with the test framework. Currently, all it does is opening the test page directly within Eclipse. The obvious next step would be that, in case of a failure typically, links from the page brings you directly to your code at the correct line. That would …
Gandi Cloud is a cloud hosting service, similar to Amazon’s EC2. Since you get full access to a Linux installation, deployment is similar to using a dedicated server. They have prepackaged solutions for various frameworks but not for Play. Fortunately deploying Play in general is pretty straight-forward. Note that, just like EC2, it’s not free …
I will be at FOSDEM in Bruxelles on Saturday 6 February. I will make a talk about the Play framework in the Free Java session, at 17:15.
Busy as I was, I realized I didn’t blog about my recent employment change. I left Yoono 2 months ago to join a company called Zenexity (site in French). It’s really cool because after Flock and Yoono that were very similar (consumer oriented/social mashup/Mozilla technologies), I get to work on really different stuff: more server-side, …
