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how to submit form using iframe

How to Submit a form with the target set to a script-generated iframe on IE

(nice title, isn’t it?) 😉 Although AJAX techniques are now widespread among the web-developers community, there’s still something that can’t be done using pure AJAX techiques (whatever that means): file uploads. There’s no way to grab a file using JavaScript and send it to the server using an asynchronous request. I guess the main reason […]

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how to unlock EOObjectStoreCoordinator

Dr. Optimistic Locking

Or How I learned to stop worrying and lock the EOObjectStoreCoordinator So those of you who read the WebObjects Developer mailing list know I’m a bit obsessed about concurrency issues. Namely concurrent data write operations, specially when you have lots of derived data on the database due to performance issues. A few months ago, I

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Migrating to Leopard Server

This was it. I spent the weekend migrating GAEL‘s Xserve to Leopard Server. It all went well, although some more or less serious issues poped up. Our server is used mainly for hosting web content and applications (php, perl, and of course, WebObjects). It also handles some Subversion repositories and some other minor stuff. I

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Google Fiber

Alphabet’s Google Fiber Goes from Fiber Optic to Wireless to Cost Cutting

Alphabet Inc. is not pleased with Google Fiber’s performance, and has ordered cost-cutting measures to be enforced. Google Fiber aims to deliver high-speed Internet by laying down fiber optic cables to provide the kind of Internet speeds it wants to deliver. The project has rolled out very slowly, and only seven metropolitan areas are currently

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webobjects

WebObjects rocks

Well, WWDC is almost done, I’m waiting for the last session on Level 3 of Moscone, near one of these really big windows. It’s a really big pain to not being able to write here all that I have learned about WebObjects (for those of you who don’t know, WWDC sessions are covered by NDAs).

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