Well, except that the residents of the foggiest city in the world (which happens to be Saint John, NB) would hardly be able to afford such vehicles given that the average income there is about $14,000(US).
And, equally important - if he doesn't know the business, why the hell not? It'll make filtering spam easier[...]
Absolutely. I wish our admin did something to Exchange to make it recognize that those flash ridden, animated gif infested, silly sound playing emails actually are internal and they simply come from marketing...
How do I configure PPPOE on gentoo so I can install the rest of it? I'm serious. I tried gentoo and I got to the stage where I had to configure my networking and none of the docs told me how to do it if my network was a PPPOE dsl. I gave up but would like to try it again if they made it any easier...
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Good one!
That was definitely a contributing factor but as far as I can tell slashdot was one of the first sites on the web to get threaded discussions right. I mean the child-parent relationship between comments. Sounds pretty obvious but there are still a hell of a lot o half arsed discussion sites out there that have a flat layout for comments that makes it hard for the reader to follow the discussion.
This and the fact that the crowd that slashdot caters to essentially comprises of avid internet users is definitely a big contributor to the s site's success.
Is this book, or will this book, be available through the Safari subscription programme? I'm considering subscribing and this book would certainly be a candidate subscription for me. Anyone from O'Reilly care to answer?
You see the purpose of J2EE was to free you from having to always shop from one vendor. If that promise remains unfulfilled then what is the incentive of sticking with j2ee over.NET? I mean either way you're tied to a single vendor. At least with.NET you'd have the assurance that the vendor isn't going away in a hurry...
My initial point was that we need books that educate people on how they can avoid vendor lock-in so their apps deploy with minimal effort. There is a lot of (mainly Open Source) tools out there that help you get there but there isn't a hell of a lot in terms of a guide of how to pull it all together but I think with stuff like XDoclet and Ant most pieces of the puzzle are already on the table. Now there must be more effort to educate companies and their development teams that they can write J2EE apps that are vendor independent.
And you recon that's ok? I think that if we have a standard that is so underspecified that half of the spec is left up to vendor's imagination we have no spec to speak of. Unless I can deploy my app on any compliant app server without changing my code (some configuration is OK but not code) the promise of J2EE is a failed one. I do not want to get suckered into Bea's or IBM's upgrade treadmill just because they decided to implement stuff 'their way' or because the spec was underdefined. Sun must get their act together soon and clean up J2EE's grey areas.
That's cuz you haven't tried Websphere yet. That's a piece of junk if I ever so one. Overpriced, overhyped and underachieving. They shipped WS5.0 saying it's a EJB2.0 app server but... they did not implement CMP2.0! I mean give me a goddamn break! The main difference between 1.1 and 2.0 is the new CMP stuff! Eclipse rocks but Websphere app server is a steaming pile of crap.
Isn't the purpose of J2EE to avoid vendor lock-in? If that is the case then a generic EJB book coupled with the WebLogic manual should do the trick. Otherwise (and that is my suspicion) J2EE has failed to create a level playing field for application server vendors. Personally I'd rather see a good book on how to effectively set up a J2EE development environment using open source tools such as JBoss, Tomcat, Ant, XDoclet etc.
There is a plethora of Open Source tools out there now that help you avoid vendor lock-in by providing a common interface to vendor specific settings (XDoclet) or actually give you a full fledged app server to begin with (JBoss). A book covering those tools would have a much more lasting value. Not to mention a book on good enterprise application design...
I know you aren't asking about load testing tools but I think that it's a crime to not mention the best open source web testing tool out there:
OpenSTA
OpenSTA is primarily designed to be a pluggable test rig that has a lot of plugins designed for stress testing. It has served us very well and with a bit of scripting it can be adopted to do functional regression tests too.
I urge everyone to give OpenSTA a try especially if you're after a load testing solution. It's just a tool that's really powerful and well respected in the industry. And the best part is that it's Free as in OpenSource:).
New Brunswick, one of the most rural of provinces in Canada has broadband in most bigger towns (including such metropoles like Hampton or Shediac) and all for $40 CANADIAN!!!!
I'm no fan of tomcat myself but if you're doing servlets then it is probably your best option (and cheapest). Being in a situation similar to yours I've evaluated JRun, WebSphere and Tomcat and liked Tomcat the most. It was most up to date with the J2EE spec and wasn't trying to be everything I didn't want it to be. It simply got its job done. Having said that, Tomcat on the back end means Apache on the web tier and I'm no big fan of Apache (or its configuration nightmare specifically).
Tomcat 4.x series is designed and built for production use unlike the 3.x series which was a reference implementation donated by Sun.
Anyway if you're not doing EJB tomcat is a reasonable choice. If you ARE doing EJB work you can pick up JBoss which integrates well with Tomcat. Pick up GLUE for web services and a decent persistence layer (OJB for example) and you're all set for enterprise level development with $0 spent on infrastructure software.
Translate the bible? How is that going to be of any more value than work in IT?
You will help those hapless folks more if you build one house for them as opposed to spreading middle eastern mythology to some indigenous tribes that have plenty of their own.
Get a grip on what really matters. Become a doctor or a carpenter and you will truly change people's lives. Become a theocrat and you just help breed hatred and division within the human race.
What's eBay supposed to do? Only allow individuals? Hah! I'm sure they have no plans to kill half of their revenue stream
In which case they will see their revenue dry up very quickly as more and more people notice that e-Bay "deals" tend to cost them more in terms of price paid and the risk inherent in online trading. We'll see how long before former e-Bay addicts start leaving the service in droves. There are already alternative bidding sites that don't let spammers in.
I think eBay is past its peak now. It used to be the cool place to buy/sell stuff until the spammers found out about it and there are very few genuine private eBay sales now. I think eBay became a victim of its own success through lack of proper monitoring and pure greed of the owners.
Now they are trying to prop up the revenue figure by offering this! How pathetic. Bring back the old eBay service and people might be interested in shopping there again but for now it is turning to another junky e-commerce site with no apparent cost benefit to shopping there but increased risk for the buyer. Bleh!
That's wrong but it's a common misconception. When you are getting a mortgage on your house the house becomes yours at the time of closing. The bank doesn't own the property. They can only get a reposession order if you don't keep up with your mortgage repayments or other terms and conditions of your mortgage contract. Technically speaking the house becomes yours and yours alone at the day of closing and the bank cannot remove you because they found someone willing to pay more, for example.
It's a common error though when people think "it's not mine until I've paid it off". That's not true. It became yours when you purchased it. The debt you owe to the bank is a separate contract from the purchase contract itself.
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yeah, but as soon as you turn them both on, side by side, it becomes obvious why the prices are the way they are...
Well, except that the residents of the foggiest city in the world (which happens to be Saint John, NB) would hardly be able to afford such vehicles given that the average income there is about $14,000(US).
Absolutely. I wish our admin did something to Exchange to make it recognize that those flash ridden, animated gif infested, silly sound playing emails actually are internal and they simply come from marketing...
Thanks. I'm going to give 1.4 a try. Last time I tried to install gentoo was in the days of 1.2 I think... Hope it'll work for me too.
How do I configure PPPOE on gentoo so I can install the rest of it? I'm serious. I tried gentoo and I got to the stage where I had to configure my networking and none of the docs told me how to do it if my network was a PPPOE dsl. I gave up but would like to try it again if they made it any easier...
Good one! That was definitely a contributing factor but as far as I can tell slashdot was one of the first sites on the web to get threaded discussions right. I mean the child-parent relationship between comments. Sounds pretty obvious but there are still a hell of a lot o half arsed discussion sites out there that have a flat layout for comments that makes it hard for the reader to follow the discussion. This and the fact that the crowd that slashdot caters to essentially comprises of avid internet users is definitely a big contributor to the s site's success.
Is this book, or will this book, be available through the Safari subscription programme? I'm considering subscribing and this book would certainly be a candidate subscription for me. Anyone from O'Reilly care to answer?
I guess they do but when it will happen is anybody's guess. I got a cd from them that didn't claim to be a beta and it did not have CMP2
My initial point was that we need books that educate people on how they can avoid vendor lock-in so their apps deploy with minimal effort. There is a lot of (mainly Open Source) tools out there that help you get there but there isn't a hell of a lot in terms of a guide of how to pull it all together but I think with stuff like XDoclet and Ant most pieces of the puzzle are already on the table. Now there must be more effort to educate companies and their development teams that they can write J2EE apps that are vendor independent.
And you recon that's ok? I think that if we have a standard that is so underspecified that half of the spec is left up to vendor's imagination we have no spec to speak of. Unless I can deploy my app on any compliant app server without changing my code (some configuration is OK but not code) the promise of J2EE is a failed one. I do not want to get suckered into Bea's or IBM's upgrade treadmill just because they decided to implement stuff 'their way' or because the spec was underdefined. Sun must get their act together soon and clean up J2EE's grey areas.
That's cuz you haven't tried Websphere yet. That's a piece of junk if I ever so one. Overpriced, overhyped and underachieving. They shipped WS5.0 saying it's a EJB2.0 app server but... they did not implement CMP2.0! I mean give me a goddamn break! The main difference between 1.1 and 2.0 is the new CMP stuff! Eclipse rocks but Websphere app server is a steaming pile of crap.
There is a plethora of Open Source tools out there now that help you avoid vendor lock-in by providing a common interface to vendor specific settings (XDoclet) or actually give you a full fledged app server to begin with (JBoss). A book covering those tools would have a much more lasting value. Not to mention a book on good enterprise application design...
has to be the famous buddy weiserman. Read the entire message log as it's truly hilarious (esp. the multimedia content). Get it here
OpenSTA
OpenSTA is primarily designed to be a pluggable test rig that has a lot of plugins designed for stress testing. It has served us very well and with a bit of scripting it can be adopted to do functional regression tests too.
I urge everyone to give OpenSTA a try especially if you're after a load testing solution. It's just a tool that's really powerful and well respected in the industry. And the best part is that it's Free as in OpenSource :).
Japan has a long history of aggression against Korea.
Need I say more?
And servlet/JSP spec is part of what may I ask you? J2EE is a group of technologies and Servlets/JSP is one of them.
Nothing wrong with Apache itself but mod_jk/mod_webapp has ways to go before it's ready for prime time.
Tomcat 4.x series is designed and built for production use unlike the 3.x series which was a reference implementation donated by Sun.
Anyway if you're not doing EJB tomcat is a reasonable choice. If you ARE doing EJB work you can pick up JBoss which integrates well with Tomcat. Pick up GLUE for web services and a decent persistence layer (OJB for example) and you're all set for enterprise level development with $0 spent on infrastructure software.
You will help those hapless folks more if you build one house for them as opposed to spreading middle eastern mythology to some indigenous tribes that have plenty of their own.
Get a grip on what really matters. Become a doctor or a carpenter and you will truly change people's lives. Become a theocrat and you just help breed hatred and division within the human race.
Not to hardware warehouses. No.
In which case they will see their revenue dry up very quickly as more and more people notice that e-Bay "deals" tend to cost them more in terms of price paid and the risk inherent in online trading. We'll see how long before former e-Bay addicts start leaving the service in droves. There are already alternative bidding sites that don't let spammers in.
Now they are trying to prop up the revenue figure by offering this! How pathetic. Bring back the old eBay service and people might be interested in shopping there again but for now it is turning to another junky e-commerce site with no apparent cost benefit to shopping there but increased risk for the buyer. Bleh!
It's a common error though when people think "it's not mine until I've paid it off". That's not true. It became yours when you purchased it. The debt you owe to the bank is a separate contract from the purchase contract itself.