The Death of EJB As We Know It?

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.

Cam gives an update, Shelley’s back, and Roller is getting rail roaded

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?!?! UpdateIt’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!

William F. Buckley Jr. takes it to Opie and Anthony and more

I’m with Garret, this William F. Buckley Jr. piece gets close to the point I’ve tried to make.

On similar matters, this resembles a Howard Stern news weblog, if your so inclined.

Also on similar matters, the oft-mentioned Jump The Shark is a fun site.

In more serious news Michael Fraase reports the FCC is trying to finish what it started a few years back – making way for the age of the media empire.

Webcrawlers and spiders

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.

Some bits on programming

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.

Five reasons ‘Buffy’ gets snubbed by Emmys

It’s a crime I tell ya. CNN, I’m sure, nails it, but that don’t make it right.

Speaking of Buffy, watch out for the Buffy Blog Burst. I will be in this. Should be fun.

Meanwhile, David Brin, sci-fi, and real science research author, comments on Episode II. Man that is alot of deep thinking.

And for more deep thinking it’s Star Wars vs. Spider-Man. common! be fair!

And even more Star Wars related deep thinking – don’t click if you don’t want to be spoiled messge board thread that explains it all.

And for a bit of humor Buffy Calls Dr. Laura. cough.

Speaking of sci-fi… that opens up the conversation to comics… anyone else ever read Lone Wolf and Cub?

Contrary to popular opinion – Vince McMahon isn’t a genius and wrestling’s hayday has passed. It will come around again. It’s just lost it’s way. That article is brought to you by Movie Poop Shoot. Yes. The site from the movie “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”. The site is pretty cool. Check it out.

Flesh and blood, not ones and zeros

I wonder how Shelley is. It’s been around seven days since her last post. She did say she is gonna take a road trip. I can be such a worry wart.

When you get the chance you want to read Bill’s The Fear. Excellent fun story. Cool seeing it posted one chapter at a time.

Looks like The Phoenix Trap were on the radio. Congrats to yas!

Now this post is going to go many different ways. Try and keep up.

Meryl points to an example of cliques and the web, “I feel like I’m in high school again, watching the kids in the cliques ignore everyone but the members of their own cliques.” Boy, a scan what’s occured these past few days in the blogosphere just reinforces that.

Dawn Olson is apologizing. Think about it.

Speaking of growing up, check out this thread at BlogRoots covering weblogs and Libel. Looks like, as Rebecca Blood says, “anyone who wishes to be accorded the protections of a professional journalist should be prepared to go further than this, following established journalistic ethical and professional practices: you can’t decide that you’re a journalist only when it’s convenient to be one.”

That’s deep.

After you’re done thinking about these things, and much more importantly, say a prayer for Dean and his wife.

This leads me back to my weekend. A huge one in many different ways. A funeral, a surprise birthday party (thank you!), a walk to fight against SIDS, and the anniversary of Hunter’s passing.

Flesh and blood. Not these ones and zeroes. People matter. Life matters.

Hopefully I am growing up. Becoming less of an asshole. “I’ve been learning how to live my life, learning when to pick my fights. Take my shots while I’m still burning.” Yeah. I guess that’s what it’s all about. Keepin’ what’s important at the center of your life and ignoring the signal noise that distracts you from it.