Rain all weekend.
I was planning on getting some yard work done this weekend. Oh well. We’ll just have fun indoors instead.
Perhaps the SAC museum is open? Can I get my wife to look at a bunch of plans with me? I’m not so into plans as I am into the Cold […]
I’m enjoying my collaboration with one of my co-workers. He’s the backend guy and I’m working the front end. We’ve worked this way on three features of our software (months of work). He’s always done with the backend before I start. I always come along and force him to change his stuff. […]
The good news is that the monologue of the Religious Right is now over and a new dialogue is finally beginning.
I went to a lecture by Jim Wallis last night. I enjoyed it very much. He talked about the need for our country to stop listening to the left and the right and […]
I’m reading Hackers and Painters a collection of essays about computers and programmers (or hackers) by Paul Graham.
Two quotes for you:
A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of.
But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem […]
I’ve started lifting weights for the first time in my life. I feel the burn. Reminds me of a conversation I had in college. A friend told me he didn’t work out at all because if he did he might find a wife that only loved him for his body. […]
I don’t enjoy working with the Struts taglib in genral. I like JSTL and EL. I know there is EL in the newest Struts taglib but we’re not into updating our version of Struts. When I work on an old Struts app I install JSTL 1.0. I still use the Struts […]
“It’s like the authors fell off the antipattern tree and hit every branch on the way down…”
- the BileBlog
This made me chuckle. I’ve been on projects like that.
Not that I recommend reading the bileBlog. Especially if you are trying to avoid deeply unhappy people. But sometimes I can’t help myself. Sometimes it’s […]
Something to check out: http://www.geneffects.com/musing/, Beat Machine written in Java.
Neal Ford’s SOA talk helped me clear things up a bit in my mind. I
avoid conversation about SOA because It seams like every time I ask
about it or get asked about it I sound like a fool. I’ve suspected
that it wasn’t my fault. There is too much hype about SOA and it […]