I’m sure this will be a feature very soon in IE, but as of now, it stands alone. The tabbed browsing features of Mozilla take alot of the clutter out of browsing. Bookmarked tab groups are the first UI innovation I’ve seen in a while.

Gonna want to check out this JavaPro article later on.

Read the news over at Blogging Roller. Very heartening. Good job people.

People are starting to recognize some of the frailty implicit in the EJB specification. In particular, the emphasis on vendor-neutrality within the EJB specification leads to a number of inefficient ways of developing enterprise applications. In order to work around these inefficiencies, developers are forced to adopt “design patterns” that create more work for the average developer, arguably more work than if they’d just abandoned EJB altogether and started from a core architecture of just servlets/JSP and JDBC.

Read the rest at this O’Reilly weblog. Ouch.

We’re all going to be rooting for you Cameron.

Weblogger.com sends notice to RollerWeblogger. This is just assnine. What bullshit. Update – make sure you go there today. It get’s worst. WhyWhyWhy?!?! Update – It’s over! Calmer heads prevailed. Gotta always give credit to those that end up doing the right thing. Good news!

Shelley shares some news from her road trip. A welcome back.

The Nigerians are getting desperate. That’s what Meryl concludes after reading the scam mail that was sent to me. Yes you want to read it – “With regard to your reputation and co-worshipper of God who will not disappoint me nor deny me in faith, I am directing this letter of assistance to you. ” and it gets far, far worst. Normally I get a few of the standard variety a week. This one got me mad. Bastards.

Congratulations to Brent and Ranchero on releasing NetNewsWire Lite 1.0!

A co-worker was raving about cURL. It looks pretty powerful as a general web-getter toolset and library. Libraries appear to be available in the language of your choice. Java for me of course. But ya never know.

There is also WebSPHINX, an alternative that’s been around for a while.

I’ve used Jakarta’s HTTP Client in a project… but the documentation made it real difficult.

David M. Johnson gives a helpful review of Eclipse.

Me? I’m old style. Not because I want to however. I just havn’t seen tools that equal what I was used to after being exposed to Delphi. I currently use the Java Development Environment for Emacs or JEdit. Speaking of JEdit, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It’s a great text editor.

I gotta give Eclispe another go.

Jase is a Jakarta project UML Case tool.

Checkstyle automates checking source code for correct JavaDoc and coding style against configurable convetions. Can be an Ant task.

JMeter is a Jakarta project web stress tool.

Dan Bricklin’s Why Johnny Can’t Program.

But Johnny might able to learn with Robocode or LOGO 🙂

Of course if you’re good, you don’t need to worry as Joel says when gives his 12 Reasons.

Joel’s development essays archive is perfect for sending bits to co-workers and saying… see!! see!! I’m not crazy!

Of course we’re dealing with more and more complicated environments in which to develop. In Grappling with app servers this ZDNet report from Gartner doesn’t scratch the surface.

I’m going to be transfering the backend database of this site from Berkley to MySQL. Anything interesting others have found about the process?