Monthly Archives: December 2002

Time Makes The Right Choice for Person(s) of the Year

Posted on December 22, 2002 by Karl

Naming “the whistle-blowers”, Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins, as Persons of the Year, was the right thing to do.

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I’m not alone

Posted on December 21, 2002 by Karl

As Rafe puts it, “The reason they don’t recommend Java for Web development is that they don’t understand it. “ And Niel explains, “the advantages of JSP strongly outweigh the problems with JSP.” Nice to know I’m not alone In … Continue reading →

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JSP Does NOT Suck!

Posted on December 20, 2002 by Karl

JSP does NOT suck! Uttering those words is against the conventional wisdom of so many at javablogs.com and elsewhere. I feel the expectation from many Java developers – for JSP to provide easy seperation of HTML and logic – by … Continue reading →

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Contribute Sounds Cool

Posted on December 19, 2002 by Karl

Has a company finally put *all* of the pieces together in an easy to use, cheap, package? Macromedia’s Contribute sounds cool. Gotta give it a whirl. This comes via part three of Jonathon Deacour’s Conversation with Joe Clark. Whadda quote!: … Continue reading →

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Servlet Best Practices, Part 1

Posted on December 19, 2002 by Karl

The first of three book excepts from “Java Enterprise Best Practices” gets you thinking about Servlet frameworks.

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And people wonder why I don’t talk about work here…

Posted on December 19, 2002 by Karl

Check out Free Speech — Virtually at the Washington Post. via Scripting News.

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Anyone seeing activity on port 3396?

Posted on December 18, 2002 by Karl

I’m getting many, many, many requests to my home PC on port 3396 today. My firewall software is keeping them from getting thru – I think – and my PC isn’t sending anything out – but it’s too weird not … Continue reading →

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Lack of free web based java apps – a conversation at JavaLobby

Posted on December 18, 2002 by Karl

Some interesting posts in this discussion on the lack of free Java web apps. Some point to the lack of web hosts that provide Java services. I think Kattare, the host I am using, is great and I recommend them, … Continue reading →

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Man am I sorry I missed it

Posted on December 17, 2002 by Karl

It’s universal – Al Gore rocked SNL.

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Coding…a writer’s perspective

Posted on December 17, 2002 by Karl

Gervase Gallant muses on how the process of writing code could be as natural as the process of writing prose. I like this piece.

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