Double escape clause
When confusing things happen to smart people
I must have had 10 questions on escape characters in Java in the last six weeks. Most of them were experienced folks that were project hopping and ran into an unexpected problem. In the end, they just missed some basics in the way languages handle escape characters. Here are a couple traps that caught the distracted.
Replacing scriptlets with expression language
Old dog looking for new way to do same old tricks
Some times new technologies seem to be created just to make the experienced people feel old. I noticed that some of the folks that were cutting edge when JSPs were introduced have been slow to embrace Expression Language (EL). I have to admit that after years of using it, I still find myself falling back to scriptlets when I'm prototyping. This is mostly because I already know how to write Java and taking the time to think in tags just slows me down.
Transforming XML in an IFRAME without scroll bars
Eliminate those default scroll bars to clean up you pages
Including XML transformed by XSL-T is a good way to include content in your pages, but Internet Explorer puts a scroll bar on the right side if it is needed or not. Here is how to get rid of them so the content appears to be part of your page.