Sorry. I think you are not paying attention to what's going on here.
1) The submitter of the story included a link to an article on TheStreet.com.
2) The story was truncated by a malformed HTML.
3) The only link visible on the truncated story was the attribution link for the submitter.
4) The submitter's link on his ID, like many of us, points to a homepage or blog.
5) The grandparent of this post chastised the submitter (mistakenly, IMO) for astroturfing or whatever, based on the attribution link, without seeing the submitted story, which contained a link to thestreet.com.
6) The submitters blog, displays the most recent post to the blog, which happened to be the same post he was trying to make to Slashdot.
I'm curious to know if there is a distributed compile or build system out there for Java. I've looked around a little, and have only found a few abandoned open source projects. I'm surprised that there isn't some distributed Ant-based tool yet. Anyone out there know of anything?
I got directions from Mapquest last winter for a drive from Chicago, IL to Jackson, WY by way of Minneapolis, MN. All in all a beautiful drive through some amazing country. The only problem was that the route had me driving through Yellowstone, which, as I unfortunately discovered, is closed during the winter. Now, I did get to see some amazing scenery, and there was a cool little bar right at the point where the road terminated for the season, but the detour added another day to my drive. I'd like to see a warning and alternate route, if there is a possible seasonal closure. Does anyone know if there is a map and direction service out there that factors in the time of year?
Please, I would HARDLY consider STEVEN JOHNSON to be an BIASED MSN employe, let alone, an MSN employe!
Slahsdot reproduces NYT in it's entirety.
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OK, not in it's entirety, and not it is a serious problem, but it would be nice if the editors could make sure that each Sunday, we don't see so many postings from a single news source. Maybe some sort of summary each Sunday on interesting stories in the NYT Sunday Edition.
These days I find fewer and fewer public and commercial websites that are relying on framesets for layout and navigation. IMHO, this is a good thing. However, I have noticed that a large number of web-based interfaces for commercial, enterprise-oriented applications, as well as many internal enterprise websites/web-applications, tend to rely very heavily on framesets.
I would like to see Nielsen revisit his 1996 critique of frames, perhaps exploring some of the technologies (PHP, JSP, ASP etc.*) that have provided better solutions to the problems frames initially tried to correct (dynamic navigation/content, rich GUI interface, etc.).
*While dynamic, server-generated content was around in 1996 (cgi, ssi, and shtml), it was not as widespread, nor was it as readily available to the average web-designer/developer.
. ..when webmonkey was he best thing out there for newbie web programmers. It's sad, but they sort of fell off at some point. But in the beginning, when it was all about client-side scripting, wasn't none better than Thau! The dude still cracks me up.
They even had a UNIX cheat sheet and tutorial for when we grew up and began working on the server-side of things.
Shouldn't a unicode-enabled application display a slightly different glyph (italicized or something) for a cyrillic "c" character vs. an western "c" char?
Such an awesome game. My friend had it for some DOS-based system. I rememebr trying to copy it, but not having enough RAM to get it running on my system. I think it required 256 KB vs. the piddly 128 KB of our family's IBM PCjr. Oh, how many games of Crossfire and Agent USA did I sleepwalk through, dreaming of space planes that could transform into gun-wielding robots. The only thing that kept me sane was the Bruce Lee action game with Green Yamo and the Ninja!
While I thought this book was well written and thoroughly interesting, it definitely needed a better copyeditor. There were frequent typos (in one confusing case it states that the first version of GNU Emacs was released in 1996!) and mispellings. For one of the first in-depth, published profiles of such an important individual in the history (albeit breif history) of free software/open source, I would have expected a bit more care on O'Reilly's part. That said, it is well worth the read, as it gives a pretty balanced take on RMS.
While this may be a useful addition to the language, I am somewhat pissed off about the way the keyword was introduced. Despite the temporary "strategy" offered by Sun in the latest JDK to avoid problems with legacy source code containing "assert" as an identifier, a LOT of code will need to be rewritten. For example, Java implementations of rules engines and expert systems commonly use "assert" as a method name (the function of this method in rules systems is similar to the function of the keyword). This should have been a reserved keyword from version 1.0 and up!!! Supposedly, assertions were part of the original spec, ao I am puzzled why they weren't more careful (I mean, GOTO is a reserved keyword, so WTF?). Sun has done a good job of managing the Java specification, but this was definitely a fsck-up!
In all fairness, these days the iPlanet "alliance" is looking a little one sided. I'd even go so far as to say that iPlanet is more of a Sun brand than anything else. True, alot of it's products had their origins at Netscape (NS Directory server, NES, etc.) but these days that program seems to be run 99% by Sun.
LDAP, my friend, is a protocol. As is SOAP. Neither dictates a way to STORE information. The "directory" accessed by an LDAP service can easily be an RDBMS, a flat file, or whatever. While you can chain interces like you describe above, it would get a little complex and/or redundant after a while. Anyway, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, but I just thought it need a little clarification.
Well, you would probably not want to replace a PHP/Apache/MySQL deployment with a full-blown J2EE application server. The model you describe is database connectivity and business logic being handled by the web tier. This would map to a Apache/Tomcat using JDBC (Java database connectivity) embedded in servlets or JSPs. While this technically IS an application server a more practical design is using Apache\Tomcat to handle web requests from a browser, and then in turn access an application server with the appropriate method call or database query. This removes logic and database calls from what is essentially a publishing platform (PHP|Tomcat+Apache) and isolates these functions in a single location. The main benefit is that you can add new types of clients (a standalone application of some sort for instance) without have to recode logic or database querys that would optherwise be embedded in JSPs, servlets, or PHP.
The gist of it is that you get a cleaner separation between logic, data, and presentation.
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Actually, they already do, and to be honest, they seem to work a bit better than Google's blog search:
o ols/MSN_RSS_search_improves_capabilities_20050831. htm
http://masternewmedia.org/RSS_search/RSS_search_t
It's interesting to see MSN get the jump on Google, and do something a bit better, even.
Sorry. I think you are not paying attention to what's going on here.
1) The submitter of the story included a link to an article on TheStreet.com.
2) The story was truncated by a malformed HTML.
3) The only link visible on the truncated story was the attribution link for the submitter.
4) The submitter's link on his ID, like many of us, points to a homepage or blog.
5) The grandparent of this post chastised the submitter (mistakenly, IMO) for astroturfing or whatever, based on the attribution link, without seeing the submitted story, which contained a link to thestreet.com.
6) The submitters blog, displays the most recent post to the blog, which happened to be the same post he was trying to make to Slashdot.
7) Please pay attention next time.
Sorry, don't understand your outrage. Why shouldn't your username link back to your blog or homepage?
I assume that more links are forthcoming in the full post (you did notice it was truncated, right?).
Now if the links in the yet unseen story are all back to his personal or commersial site, then, well, you might have a reason to be upset.
. . . makes some really nice, if a bit pricey, bags with padded laptop compartments:
Here, and here.
While they mostly make snowboards, they do make solid swag.
"I suggest the people who modded this comment funny go and look at what the Irish did to London in 1993."
I am not sure that the IRA == the Irish, any more than Al Qaeda == the Muslims.
I'm curious to know if there is a distributed compile or build system out there for Java. I've looked around a little, and have only found a few abandoned open source projects. I'm surprised that there isn't some distributed Ant-based tool yet. Anyone out there know of anything?
Here's a couple of decent ones:
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http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/starter_kit/vc
I got directions from Mapquest last winter for a drive from Chicago, IL to Jackson, WY by way of Minneapolis, MN. All in all a beautiful drive through some amazing country. The only problem was that the route had me driving through Yellowstone, which, as I unfortunately discovered, is closed during the winter. Now, I did get to see some amazing scenery, and there was a cool little bar right at the point where the road terminated for the season, but the detour added another day to my drive. I'd like to see a warning and alternate route, if there is a possible seasonal closure. Does anyone know if there is a map and direction service out there that factors in the time of year?
Radio: [speaking foreign language] I have a ham radio.
[9F11] Selma's Choice
Please, I would HARDLY consider STEVEN JOHNSON to be an BIASED MSN employe, let alone, an MSN employe!
OK, not in it's entirety, and not it is a serious problem, but it would be nice if the editors could make sure that each Sunday, we don't see so many postings from a single news source. Maybe some sort of summary each Sunday on interesting stories in the NYT Sunday Edition.
Pure Math, Pure Joy
Does Google = God?
Harry Potter and the Entertainment Industry
These days I find fewer and fewer public and commercial websites that are relying on framesets for layout and navigation. IMHO, this is a good thing. However, I have noticed that a large number of web-based interfaces for commercial, enterprise-oriented applications, as well as many internal enterprise websites/web-applications, tend to rely very heavily on framesets.
I would like to see Nielsen revisit his 1996 critique of frames, perhaps exploring some of the technologies (PHP, JSP, ASP etc.*) that have provided better solutions to the problems frames initially tried to correct (dynamic navigation/content, rich GUI interface, etc.).
* While dynamic, server-generated content was around in 1996 (cgi, ssi, and shtml), it was not as widespread, nor was it as readily available to the average web-designer/developer.
thau
. . .when webmonkey was he best thing out there for newbie web programmers. It's sad, but they sort of fell off at some point. But in the beginning, when it was all about client-side scripting, wasn't none better than Thau! The dude still cracks me up.
They even had a UNIX cheat sheet and tutorial for when we grew up and began working on the server-side of things.
"But now Weed believes his newest innovation, the Problem Knowledge Coupler, is finally ready for mainstream use."
No kidding. This is not really an innovation by any stretch. Rule-based diagnostic systems such as MYCIN first appead in the '70s!
Shouldn't a unicode-enabled application display a slightly different glyph (italicized or something) for a cyrillic "c" character vs. an western "c" char?
With the date for this moment set around 2012
Hmmm . . . perhaps December 22nd 2012!?!
Such an awesome game. My friend had it for some DOS-based system. I rememebr trying to copy it, but not having enough RAM to get it running on my system. I think it required 256 KB vs. the piddly 128 KB of our family's IBM PCjr. Oh, how many games of Crossfire and Agent USA did I sleepwalk through, dreaming of space planes that could transform into gun-wielding robots.
The only thing that kept me sane was the Bruce Lee action game with Green Yamo and the Ninja!
Hmm...looks like some poor proofreading on my part.
I meant 1996.
While I thought this book was well written and thoroughly interesting, it definitely needed a better copyeditor. There were frequent typos (in one confusing case it states that the first version of GNU Emacs was released in 1996!) and mispellings. For one of the first in-depth, published profiles of such an important individual in the history (albeit breif history) of free software/open source, I would have expected a bit more care on O'Reilly's part. That said, it is well worth the read, as it gives a pretty balanced take on RMS.
While this may be a useful addition to the language, I am somewhat pissed off about the way the keyword was introduced. Despite the temporary "strategy" offered by Sun in the latest JDK to avoid problems with legacy source code containing "assert" as an identifier, a LOT of code will need to be rewritten. For example, Java implementations of rules engines and expert systems commonly use "assert" as a method name (the function of this method in rules systems is similar to the function of the keyword). This should have been a reserved keyword from version 1.0 and up!!! Supposedly, assertions were part of the original spec, ao I am puzzled why they weren't more careful (I mean, GOTO is a reserved keyword, so WTF?). Sun has done a good job of managing the Java specification, but this was definitely a fsck-up!
Rule engines and expert systems implemented in languages OTHER than Lisp or Prolog!!!!!!!
Also more LDAP titles (with a linux focus!).
In all fairness, these days the iPlanet "alliance" is looking a little one sided. I'd even go so far as to say that iPlanet is more of a Sun brand than anything else. True, alot of it's products had their origins at Netscape (NS Directory server, NES, etc.) but these days that program seems to be run 99% by Sun.
LDAP, my friend, is a protocol. As is SOAP. Neither dictates a way to STORE information. The "directory" accessed by an LDAP service can easily be an RDBMS, a flat file, or whatever. While you can chain interces like you describe above, it would get a little complex and/or redundant after a while. Anyway, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, but I just thought it need a little clarification.
Cheers!
Well, you would probably not want to replace a PHP/Apache/MySQL deployment with a full-blown J2EE application server. The model you describe is database connectivity and business logic being handled by the web tier. This would map to a Apache/Tomcat using JDBC (Java database connectivity) embedded in servlets or JSPs. While this technically IS an application server a more practical design is using Apache\Tomcat to handle web requests from a browser, and then in turn access an application server with the appropriate method call or database query. This removes logic and database calls from what is essentially a publishing platform (PHP|Tomcat+Apache) and isolates these functions in a single location. The main benefit is that you can add new types of clients (a standalone application of some sort for instance) without have to recode logic or database querys that would optherwise be embedded in JSPs, servlets, or PHP.
The gist of it is that you get a cleaner separation between logic, data, and presentation.