Blog archive – page 6
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Show Tweets with HST and Twitter4J
My five latest Tweets used show up on my site. In this blog I’ll explain how you can add such a block to your HST site. For the Twitter component I have used Twitter4J to retrieve my latest tweets. The first step is to add its dependency to your CMS...
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Web development tools I use at Hippo
Earlier this week a customer with its own development department asked us which tools we use for measuring quality and performance of websites. In this blogpost I’ll describe some of the tools I use to check the HTML and CSS. I know there are more...
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My QR code
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. Since I have...
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Components in my blog: Properties component
This blogpost is about the Hippo Forge Properties component. This component allows you to manage labels for your website instead of hardcoding them into the JSP. My website is mostly an extended version of the Hippo Site Toolkit demo project. I did a...
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First blogpost in Hippo
This is my first blogpost written in Hippo CMS I wanted to build my own website and get rid of the tagsoup produced by Blogger. That’s why I built my own site using Hippo CMS and Hippo Site toolkit. It’s not finished yet (is a website ever finished?)...
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Generate RSS in JSP? Set the locale!
The RSS pubDate fields contain dates in a format that may be human readable, but not very handy in a programmer’s point of view. According to the RSS specification the date must conform to the RFC822 specification. A typical RSS snippet looks...