In the hope that I can save someone, please spread the word that when choosing frameworks a good tip is to not use JSF. I'm using it at work and it's making my life a misery.
I think the general case is: don't use a framework which isn't designed by one person.
I've set up exim to forward any thomas-*@mydomain emails to my address, so when I give out email addresses i usuall stick the company name on the address.
I've only just started doing this, but I'm hoping once I start getting spam I can just block the thomas-badcompany alias. So I'm hoping i can keep thomas@mydomain forever. I only give thomas@mydomain to friends.
If the demands really can't be met in time consider using external libraries/applications.
There are bound to be areas where you're re-inventing the wheel. Do a freshmeat search and find something which does the work for you.
You might be able to remove entire sections of development and the areas replaced will probably have extra features you'd never have added.
I think this approch should be taken more often. If the code isn't precisly what the software's about -ie where it adds value, you need to justify not using external code.
Remember, if you code remains in-house you can use GPL'd code.
Also, make sure all the functionallity really is needed. Drop any extra work to improve flexibility, -your guesses will probably be wrong so spend the time once you know what the new features are (this is just XP).
www.openarchives.org are trying to end this. The journals have become a barrier to people reading articles. Like in opensource authors often want eyeballs and comments more than the pennies they could get. I'm sure the monoploy will be broken one day. Its funny 'cos this is what the web was created for.
Take cash machines. I want to be able to use all cash machines. Solution one is having one bank so all cash machines are run by the same company. Solution two is all banks co-operate (like the link network in the UK) now I can use virtually all cash machines but there's still competition between banks.
I suppose mobile operators should co-operate and take calls from others networks when they're the only one avaliable.
I keep thinking there needs to be a solution to the the domain name bit of email addresses. If you have a university or business address you address means something but otherwise your address is yourname@the-first-ISP-you-used.net/com/whatever. These addresses aren't intuative, are hard to remember and impossible to guess. Maybe there should be domain names like town/city.country and everyone gets a free redirection service from their town/city?
Note to Americans and other aliens: British schools are under-funded. BADLY under-funded. A typical school has a leaking roof, a single reel-to-reel for language teaching in a class of 30 to 40, textbooks that haven't been replaced since the 60's, and food that tastes like it was originally prepared in the 60's.
I wouldn't say badly under-funded. My school had four rooms of PCs and others dotted all over the place. It also had an ISDN connection which for a fixed fee was _free_ during school hours.
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In the hope that I can save someone, please spread the word that when choosing frameworks a good tip is to not use JSF.
I'm using it at work and it's making my life a misery.
I think the general case is: don't use a framework which isn't designed by one person.
I don't think java and c# are different enough to like c# and not like java.
I've set up exim to forward any thomas-*@mydomain emails to my address, so when I give out email addresses i usuall stick the company name on the address.
I've only just started doing this, but I'm hoping once I start getting spam I can just block the thomas-badcompany alias. So I'm hoping i can keep thomas@mydomain forever. I only give thomas@mydomain to friends.
If the demands really can't be met in time consider using external libraries/applications.
There are bound to be areas where you're re-inventing the wheel. Do a freshmeat search and find something which does the work for you.
You might be able to remove entire sections of development and the areas replaced will probably have extra features you'd never have added.
I think this approch should be taken more often.
If the code isn't precisly what the software's about -ie where it adds value, you need to justify not using external code.
Remember, if you code remains in-house you can use GPL'd code.
Also, make sure all the functionallity really is needed. Drop any extra work to improve flexibility, -your guesses will probably be wrong so spend the time once you know what the new features are (this is just XP).
Cocoon is much better at this. JSP's only invert content and presentation. JSP tags do separate them in someways but cocoon is much more powerfull.
www.openarchives.org are trying to end this. The journals have become a barrier to people reading articles. Like in opensource authors often want eyeballs and comments more than the pennies they could get. I'm sure the monoploy will be broken one day. Its funny 'cos this is what the web was created for.
It looks like these people are converting the texts to XHTML.
Cooperation is a better answer than monopolies.
Take cash machines. I want to be able to use all cash machines. Solution one is having one bank so all cash machines are run by the same company. Solution two is all banks co-operate (like the link network in the UK) now I can use virtually all cash machines but there's still competition between banks.
I suppose mobile operators should co-operate and take calls from others networks when they're the only one avaliable.
I keep thinking there needs to be a solution to the the domain name bit of email addresses. If you have a university or business address you address means something but otherwise your address is yourname@the-first-ISP-you-used.net/com/whatever. These addresses aren't intuative, are hard to remember and impossible to guess. Maybe there should be domain names like town/city.country and everyone gets a free redirection service from their town/city?