I know you’re out there. My brother is one and I am so proud of him.
To my own father you probably will never know how I feel.
Most of the time it’s comforting to know you’re not alone. But sometimes – it makes me sad for others.
Author Archives: Karl
Two good JavaPro articles
Almost All Java Web Apps Need Model 2
You use Model 1, which is page-centric, for simple applications or if you want to get something done quickly. Applications implementing this model have a series of JSP pages where the user proceeds from one page to another. This is the model you always employ when you first learn JSP because it’s simple and easy. The main problem with Model 1 applications is that they’re hard to maintain and not flexible. In addition, this architecture does not promote the division of labor between the page designer and the Web developer because the developer is involved in both the page development and business objects coding.
Cofax is a Model 2 application
Good article. Doesn’t emphasize enough the performance benefits of unsynchronized HashMaps over HashTables though. I agree that you should probably use HashMaps in all cases where you don’t know up front you need synchronization – which has a performance penalty attached to it.
On the Church Crisis – two questions
Oh my… I asked Kathy Shaidle blogger extraordinare of relapsedcatholic.com two questions and she’s linked to me.
I am confused, saddened and angry by all of this. Bottom line – the people responsible should be in jail. And a policy should be in place to make sure nothing like this ever occurs again.
That raises two basic questions:
1. If people went straight to the police and not the Church – wouldn’t there never be a chance for coverup?
2. If the church simply deferred people to the police to report the crime – and it *is* a crime – wouldn’t there never be a chance for coverup?
This is a criminal matter. These are horrific crimes. Don’t those two questions cut to the core? They are bugging me. Maybe I am oversimplifing.
Update I’m definately oversimplfying. I apologize. Please read my comments for alice-d’s post.
JDeveloper and CVS
Interesting O’Reilly weblog post on the IDE.
Installing Software with Jakarta Ant
A great O’Reilly article on using Ant to install software as well as compile it for you. This greatly shortens the whole compile, deploy, debug cycle. We do it as well ourselves. I’ve been meaning to add an ftp task to our build file to actually upload distributables to cofax.org.
Now here is what I call ballanced!
Oliver Willis first calls the far left doomed and then hits Bush for fullfilling his campaign promise to be the opposite of Bill Clinton.
A Weblogic Workshop Beta Review
Check out the review at theServerSide.com.
Save the Sameric
Read this Daily News story on the efforts to save the Sameric – center city’s last old-style movie theatre.
It holds a special place in my heart – I saw Return of the Jedi there cutting school one day.
Updated How I Got A Career
I added quite a bit on How Can You Start?.
Just want to shout out to Rafe Colburn and Dave Bauer. Dave, who I credit at the end of the piece, is taking his first steps and Rafe’s web site is one I’ve been visiting for a long time now. He’s even in my sidebar to the right. He touches on all sorts of subjects and I read there regularly.
One of the problems with moving back to Philly
Our new house will be within the Philly city limits. For the past three years I’ve been living in the ‘burbs.
Today I found out our car insurance will increase to the point that – if I factored it into what we could have afforded … we could have bought a reasonable house right where we’re at.
That sucks.