MeanDean has released Versescape 0.2. His commentary on his approach can be very helpful for those learning Perl or are designing a site scraper. An educational challange would be to port this to Java.

You know the type, they mention the latest acronyms and tell you that you “must apply this design pattern, otherwise it will never work”. Anyway, go read the article at O’Reilly. Gotta love this quote, “It’s an absolute truth that some have held the idea of patterns as a hatchet over people’s heads for some time now, leading many to believe that patterns are this mystical cult or exclusive club that only those born with the right birthmark can get into.”

I joined javablogs.com this morning. It’s an impressive way to browse the Java weblogger universe. I can tell it’s going to be a killer resource in the future.

Like Russell Beattie, I have a general purpose weblog and probably should filter what is going to javablogs.com by category. I doubt the folks using javablogs.com would like to read my personal postings either. Luckily with MovableType, this should be easy.

Speaking of RSS, my friend Mark is doing some interesting work over at More Boom In The Room.

Just finished an upgrade to Windows 2000 along with a new sound card and video card. Been using it at work for two years now and it was about time for my home machine to move on from Windows 98. I know what you’re thinking… he was still using ’98?!?. Yep. And my PC is around three years old and home built. I’m kinda funny that way. I just don’t feel the need to have the latest and greatest.

Heh… I still use a Palm that has the 3Com logo on it 🙂

Check out this excellent post on MVC and how it relates to web development. via cwinters, via rebelutionary.

Rafe, like me, is a Emacs/JDEE/bash/ant user, and he posted his thoughts on IDEA vs. Eclipse.

Looks like a must read for later today.

Application design advice gleamed from the history of the Strat.

I want to get to these.

R. Mark Volkmann covers Jalopy and CheckStyle in this writeup.

CertMag on passing the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect exam.