I’ve taken on as organizer of the Philly Blogger Meetup and we will be gathering in one week at The Memphis Taproom. I’m looking forward to hanging out with fellow bloggers and sharing a few drinks.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
John Perry Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
Do you remember when this was shared on the Net? It’s worth a re-read. And some time to reflect. When doing research into my spondylolisthesis, I discovered that John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, is dealing with it as well.
Sun’s default HTTP classes have come a long way, but…
Issuing POSTs is still way too cumbersome in comparison to Apache’s HttpClient.
A nice gallery application
SimpleViewer looks easy to use and I’m spotting it on a number of photo blogger sites.
Spring 2.5 Brings New Features to Spring MVC
InfoQ: Spring 2.5: New Features in Spring MVC: As you can see there is minimal XML, no URI paths embedded in annotations, no explicit view names, the request handling method consists of a single line, the method signature matches precisely what we need, and additional request handling methods can be easily added. All of these benefits come without the need for a base class and without XML – at least none directly attributable to this controller.
Migrating to Movable Type’s Standard Templates
I’ve been behind the curve in adding new features and functionality to this blog for a while, so I’m migrating paradox1x.org to a set of SixApart provided templates and rebuilding my look and feel. You can see it taking place here. This will include a change in link structure. To handle that, a query into Movable Type’s mt_entry table will provide me with the URL patterns to add to .htaccess for redirection.
The latest “I’m a Marvel…and I’m a DC” – Classic
Star Wars, Alpacas, YouTube
via geekadelphia
Star Blazers, electronica, and YouTube
Free book on Hyperlinks and their effects on society and business
This looks like a must read: The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age.
Two interesting chapters right off the bat:
Seth Finkelstein’s concise description of PageRank and some of the interesting societal issues it raises: Google, Links, and Popularity versus Authority
David Weinberger’s passionate arguments and assertions that links are good: The Morality of Links