I’ve been doing a lot of work lately with Google App Engine/Objectify on a Spring project and found it was becoming cumbersome to always create an ObjectifyFactory whenever I need to interact with the datastore. (more…)
I’ve intended to contribute to an open source project for a quite a while, but had never made the effort to find a project to work on. Recently at work we’ve started using the Scalate templating engine with Spring MVC. Up until my change, the Spring MVC support in Scalate was very rudimentary, however the ScalateViewResolver now supports the order, prefix and suffix properties similarly to the InternalResourceViewResolver.
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A few days ago I ordered a Trackpad Slip from Waterfield Designs for the Magic Trackpad I received for Christmas. The order confirmation I got from them had a nice human touch:
Hi Tristan,
Thanks very much. I just want to let you know that your order (#XXXXXX) will ship fresh from our San Francisco factory on the evening of 27-Dec-2010 via US First Class Mail.
Thanks for tracking us down and giving us a shot. I hope we meet your expectations.
If there’s anything else I can do for you, just let me know.
Best regards,
GaryPS: By the way, this is what we’re sending you:
1 -Trackpad Socket $12.00
Product Total: $12.00
Sales Tax: $0.00
Shipping: $2.00
Grand Total: $14.00
Even though this is probably automatically generated, it increased the chance that I’ll buy another product form them because it feels like there is a human connection to the purchaser. I wish more companies would send simple confirmation emails like this.