Handsontable ‘Spreadsheet’ talking to SpringMVC

Handsontable is an Excel-like data grid utilizing JQuery. For example, it provides the ability to copy and paste directly to & from Excel. Handsontable itself if very easy to setup. The part I struggled with was passing the data to SpringMVC. So, this post shows how to send data from a Handsontable data grid on the client to a SpringMVC server.

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Tags: excel, handsontable, JavaScript, jQuery, jsp, spreadsheet, spring, springmvc

HTML5 talk at Google Technology User Group

Last Wednesday, I attended a talk on HTML5 at the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (SV GTUG). HTML5 is a broad term for the next generation of web technologies, including (obviously) the next and long overdue version of HTML, as well as CSS and JavaScript Libraries. The talk was in 3 sections: The first by Seth Ladd (a Developer Advocate for Google) was an introduction to HTML5; The second by Tab Atkins Jr. (a Software Engineer at Google) was on the new HTML5 <video> and <canvas> tags; And the third and final section was by Nathan Naze (also a software engineer at Google) on the Closure JavaScript Library.

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Tags: Closure, CSS, gtug, html, html5, JavaScript

Silicon Valley Code Camp Notes

I am at the Silicon Valley Code Camp at the moment.

I will try to post some notes on the various talks I attend below…

Day 1:

• Session 1: JavaScript
• Session 2: Easing into Agile
• Session 3: Building Better Tests in Java
• Session 4: What is Python?

Day 2:

• Session 1: Basics of Threading
• Session 2: Introduction to Grails

Tags: agile, codecamp, Java, JavaScript, python, Testing, threading