Tuesday, June 04, 2002

The Internet as a Pyramid Scheme... Read this interesting article about the internet bubble.  It provides a very intriguing perspective on the whole process and what drove it.  10:56:24 PM    comment []

An Interesting Comment from an Dynamo User... I got this in reference to my "Tomcat is Dead" rant: Well, in defense of Dynamo, Tomcat doesnot have the Caching elements. Try Tomcat + JBoss and You will be closer. Do Jetty + JBoss as an alternative. The predeployed version of Catalina that comes w/ JBoss is pretty good. It supports the servlet spec (2.3) and the auto deploy from JBOss is nice. I also have a trick to speed up redeploying JSPs: Bash script follows. Some part of it is custom to my project. #!/bin/sh { if [ -n $1 ] then FILE_TO_COPY=$1 else FILE_TO_COPY=activepca.ear fi if [ -n $2 ] then cd $2 else cd $WEB fi DEPLOY_DIR=$JBOSS/tmp/deploy/Default/$FILE_TO_COPY/ WEB_DIR=$DEPLOY_DIR`ls $DEPLOY_DIR | grep web` for SOURCE_FILE in `find . -name "*.jsp"` do cp $SOURCE_FILE $WEB_DIR/$SOURCE_FILE done } This will copy over all of your jsp files into the temporary directory created by JBoss keeping you from having to redeploy. Thanks!!! That certainly IS useful. 10:42:12 PM    comment []

The rumors of Real Network's Death have been greatly exagerated Saw this post on John Robb's Radio Weblog : Whoa.  Real Networks is about to die.  I just upgraded my computer, and therefore I want to install a new Real player (reluctantly).  So I go to the corporate site.  All I can find is a small link to the premium Real One that requires a credit card to use (although it says free).  Finito. Actually you have to search real hard but there's a link to the Free Player after you click on the Free Player button.  If you click anywhere else you won't in fact get the Free Player as you'll have to pay and paying dictates that it isn't free.  Does that clear it up? hehe 10:02:01 PM    comment []

Resistance is Futile.... Microsoft seeks converts to .Net - seems that JUMP has been renamed JLCA (Java Language Conversion Assistant). I wonder if this new beta still only converts Java 1.1.8 source (which I'd suggest isn't really that useful for anyone). [rebelutionary] Because as you must know by now you can ONLY build Web Services in .NET.  That's according to the $200,000,000.00 marketting campaign anyway..... Why would anyone want to do this?  I can see it from a conversion issue I suppose (Company B wants to use Company A's web app but is running on the .Net platform).  I'd think though that once Company B realized that Company A didn't have to shell out mega bucks for the server, database and programming talent they'd just switch over to the app server Company A was using....but then again I may just be wrong. hehe 9:51:37 PM    comment []

My VERY first Story.... Categories, Hierarchies and the GUI that is the browser. The poignant tale of java geek and his trials and tribulations on presenting a hierarchal category list to the user in some meaningful way within the browser all the while fighting off the fiendish minions of sir limiting browser interface. Don't worry...it's NOT a story about a man named Brady.....*phew*....   9:32:44 PM    comment []

There's a pretty interesting article on Open Source and specifically a J2EE Weblogger named Roller here.  9:32:35 PM    comment []

Mono....you can't get THIS version from kissing.... Anyone know what's happening with Mono?  There's a an article written by Miguel de Icaza and Brian Jepson here but that's from January. I'd love to try C# but am resisting the temptation because it means I'd have to start messing with my main development box.  Just not going to happen. 9:32:26 PM    comment []

Morons Inc.... [Gordon Weakliem's Radio Weblog] posted: Morons.org. Found in My Neighborhood: Morons Dot Org.  Is this one of those things like AARP that I get an automatic membership to when I've reached a certain point in my life? I'm going to have to anser "Yes" and just leave it at that.  Move along, nothing to see.... 9:32:17 PM    comment []

Jon Udell has a nice article on Personal RSS Aggregators here.  Worth the read. 9:32:05 PM    comment []

Identity Crisis.... Steven over at Steven's Weblog has decided that I am NOT in fact the appropriate Steve: Wrong Steve I saw a mention of "Steve's blog" and "Java Geek" and thought it might be my cousin's husband. But it Wasn't. To all those whom I have un-intentianlly mis-led I appologize. (hehe) 9:31:56 PM    comment []

We're the ones to watch....no really....I'm not kidding.... Oh oh...I've been included in a list of Java bloggers to watch (YAY). A plain spoken guy from Philly on Java, Metal, Life over at PARADOX1X said: "Two Java weblogs to watch rebelutionary and Java Geek. via John Robb." 9:31:43 PM    comment []