Archive for February, 2007
Exploring Ruby on Rails
So I’ve read all of the hype of Ruby and Ruby on Rails and while I am generally not a fan of code generation frameworks, I thought I would go ahead and take a shot at it to see if it is all it is supposed to be.
I read through a few tutorials a couple [...]
How often are you set up to fail?
As developers in any decent sized corporate environment will tell you, being set up to fail is an all too common occurrence. Sometimes it is the business that wants things too quickly, sometimes management won’t take the tech staff’s warnings to higher levels and even sometimes it is our own over ambition that causes us [...]
Pebble or Wordpress for multiple blogs?
I mentioned in my previous post about coming across Glen Smith’s blog and one of his entries relates to using the Pebble blogging platform. I’m a Wordpress fan because it is highly popular (I have four), easy to install on basically any web host and a lot of support in themes, widgets, etc.
However, at work [...]
Tomcat or Jetty or GlassFish
Before too long the company I work for is going to be putting a few websites up and part of the functionality will be running java webapps. At first I was just going to throw tomcat on the server and let it run. After all, Tomcat is almost the defacto standard for web containers so [...]
Am I the only one that has trouble with JavaBlogs emails?
I get the daily digest from JavaBlogs and on some of the entries have the originating source as a hyperlink. That is all fine and dandy, but in GMail that link gets appended to the end of the javablogs link. So for the example below:
the resulting link looks like: http://www.javablogs.com/Jump.action?id=329668dzone.com instead of http://www.javablogs.com/Jump.action?id=329668 which of [...]