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Who has the most web servers?

Here's an interesting link about "Who has the most web servers?" It only briefly touches on guesses for the number of servers Google and Microsoft have, but they provide interesting numbers for companies like 1&1, Rackspace, and a few other big names, based on this "Netcraft hosting provider server count".

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011

A collection of free RSS Feed icons

Back here at the devdaily.com world headquarters I've been working on fixing some "issues" on this blog, and one of the minor things I just worked on was finding a new icon for my RSS news feed. It turns out there's a lot of free RSS Feed icons out there in the world, you just have to google them, then follow tons of links.

A list of free "RSS Feed" icons

If it will help save anyone the trouble, here are the best RSS Feed icons I found today, in sorted order, starting with the ones I think are best.

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

The link popularity of OpenSSO, WebSeal, and web tools

I've been working on a single sign-on project lately, evaluating both OpenSSO and IBM's trio of TIM, TAM, and WebSeal, and I noticed that Google has only 32,000 links to real WebSeal resources. By contrast, even as a young open source project, OpenSSO already has over 100,000 links.

Out of curiosity, I decided to google a variety of web languages and tools, and here are my search results:

By Alvin Alexander on August 8, 2011

How to install Apache with the mod_proxy module

Over the weekend I was trying to configure Apache as a reverse-proxy server (specifically as a reverse-proxy server working in conjunction with OpenSSO), and I couldn't get it to work at all. It's been a while since I last installed Apache, and I assumed it was configured with the modproxy module by default, but it turns out that it's not: You have to configure Apache with the mod_proxy module at installation time in order for things like the ProxyPass configuration to work.

By Alvin Alexander on April 10, 2011

How to load multiple Spring application context files for a web application

Here's an example web.xml configuration file where I show how to configure the Spring Framework to properly load for a Java web application. I'm intentionally trying to keep this Spring example simple, so my web.xml file has almost the bare minimum configuration.

I show how to load the Spring ContextLoaderListener class with the listener-class tag, and also show how to load multiple Spring application context files using the context-param, param-name, and param-value XML tags.

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

My Windows Ant/Tomcat web application build process

I don't like the off-the-shelf process of developing web applications with Ant and Tomcat on Windows computers. Rather than get into my angst, here's the way I think the Ant build process should work with Tomcat:

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

Ant WAR task - A sample Ant build script that builds a WAR file

You'll probably have to know a little bit about Java, Ant, and build files for this sample build.xml file to be any use to you, but if you're looking for a sample Ant build script that can be used to create a war file, or one that simple uses a war task, this example might work for you.

I'm not going to provide any explanation of any of this right now, but if I have time in the future I'll come back here and add a few comments about how this build script works.

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

A Java web service client that gets a list of objects

I just solved a problem with a Java web service client I've been working on. I've been trying to read a Java web service that was created with Apache Axis2, and it has methods that can return an array or List of User objects. I couldn't find any examples on the Axis2 web site that showed how to get an array or List from a web service client, but I finally find the solution by digging around a little.

In this post I'll provide some sample Java source code that shows what I did to solve this problem.

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

Number of employees at 'web' companies

A friend of mine was at a search engine strategies conference last week, and sent me these employment numbers, which are really staggering:

  1. Skype has 200 employees
  2. YouTube has 60 employees
  3. Craigslist has 20 employees

(I think those numbers came from Nicholas Carr, but I'm not positive.)

I would have guessed at numbers much higher than those. Hopefully that makes everyone at YouTube a billionaire, or at least a millionaire.

By Alvin Alexander on August 22, 2009

Microsoft FrontPage (product review)

After all these years -- and despite some of the bad things I've written about Microsoft and Windows in the past -- and all the people that laugh at me for using it, FrontPage is still my favorite HTML WYSIWYG editor.

By Alvin Alexander on July 23, 2009
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