Darragh Duffy - Technology & Rants

EXTJS Button in a Grid – A GridButton

Darragh Duffy — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:39:38 +0000

I cant believe its that long since I posted here; been pretty busy both family and work are keeping me occupied.

This topic is something I have been thinking about for a while and not had the chance to do anything about it. Basic problem that needed to be solved was how do you get an EXTJS [...]

Security & Software – Web Applications – How it should be.

Darragh Duffy — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:28:04 +0000

Over the years I have built up a knowledge base on what to implement and look for when building web applications, these are my thoughts. I have liaised on many occasions with independent security organisations who perform regular audits on web applications. Recently lots of reports circulating about security in web applications and the lack [...]

Enterprise Single Sign On – An Easier Approach

Darragh Duffy — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:40:07 +0000

Over the past several years I have spent a lot of time working with enterprise Single Sign On (SSO), I am amazed at how difficult people believe SSO is. Approaches to SSO do vary in complexity, but they don’t have to; at the end of the day you want to allow users / employees of [...]

EXTJS in Action Second Edition A Book Review

Darragh Duffy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:44:21 +0000

EXTJS in Action MEAP | Jesus Garcia & Jacob K Andresen | December 2011
Click Here to get a copy
Back in March 2011 I reviewed EXTJS in Action first edition by Jay Garcia, that edition was based on EXTJS 3.x; an updated version i.e. second edition is now in Manning [...]

Oracle and Encryption

Darragh Duffy — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:15:22 +0000

Recently I had a requirement from a customer to provide a Single Sign On passthrough solution for our web application called Coreportal (Coreportal is an employee and manager self service application within the HR space). Our application already has a single sign on adapter which nicely authenticates against LDAP v.3 directories. I have been meaning [...]

JavaScript on Mobile

Darragh Duffy — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:38:07 +0000

Recently (back in Jan 2011) Google hosted a Free day of JavaScript; anyone interested in Javascript, Mobile development, Mobile Web app development should review / listen to the video presentations,Go Here.

The presentation on State of mobile with Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith is an excellent view [...]

The lowdown on Sourc{ Dev Conference – Sencha / EXTJS Developers Conference

Darragh Duffy — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:33:42 +0000

To date I am not aware of an official Sencha conference in Europe; the sourc{ dev conference was organised by the Sencha community. Location was Split, Croatia 5th – 7th May 2011. Sourc{DevCon

Over 200 developers attended the event spanning three days, Sencha were the platinum sponsors and sent some senior and very [...]

Sencha Dev Conference Day One

Darragh Duffy — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:20:48 +0000

I was going to blog about Sencha Dev Day one Conference in Croatia, but I think my colleague Joe Lennon has summed it up excellently @ following http://goo.gl/HjA9N

All I can add is I attended the Extensions training session with Mats Bryntse @bryntum creator of Ext Scheduler one of the best extensions to [...]

EXTJS in Action – Jesus Garcia – Book Review

Darragh Duffy — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:55:19 +0000

EXTJS in Action | ISBN 9781935182115 | Jesus Garcia | November 2010. click here

I have decided to review the book by answering the following questions.

Are the Core Concepts of the EXTJS framework explained well? Will this book help build web applications? What is the flow of the book like? What additional [...]

EXTJS framework and ORACLE db working together – here is a sample application

Darragh Duffy — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:27:58 +0000

Dont want to read this and instead want to see all the software running then go here

Back in May 2010 I started to seriously look at the EXTJS framework (link) briefly EXTJS is a javascript framework with some serious UI components. Before looking into EXTJS I spent a lot [...]