Excellent TheServerSide.com thread. I know how he feels. via rebelutionary.
Fighting from the outside, fighting from the inside
Just a little thing on perspective. It is almost always easier to fight something from the outside then it is from the inside.
Sometimes people get characterized in negative light because they appear to outsiders that they are just going thru the motions, but in reality, sometimes much more is going on that meets the eye. Sometimes, that person is someone that cares so much, that they want to make a difference from the toughest place to be – on the inside. Because they know so much is at stake. Because they care and believe.
F.B.I. Agent Coleen Rowley is just such a person. She didn’t run to newspapers on Sept. 12th and blurted to the world what she felt was wrong. No – she fights from the inside. That’s courage to me.
I watched her testimony the other day and I couldn’t help but think of her as a person with tons of honor. It’s a word that’s rarely used anymore. She has it in spades.
Pink Houses
Thinking about the house were buying really brightens my day. It signifies some kind of new era for us, for me. I’m blessed to be where I am in life and thankful. Middle Class. 🙂 Here goes a NYTimes pictorial on the middle of the middle class. It’s real important to remember where you come from in life. To not lose perspective on reality. To realize that others may not have the wealth, or the freedom to act as you do. There is a huge difference between owning a company and working for one for example. Between owning a house and struggling to pay rent. Or worst. Between paying rent and living in a shelter. As always, it’s important to walk in other’s shoes. Some people simply refuse to do that. Some people only do it for tactics. Some people don’t know how or were never forced to because they had to. Some people forget how. I hope I never get that way.
Slashdot covers this week’s NYTimes magazine. It’s hard out there.
Pink Houses by John Mellencamp
There’s a black man with a black cat livin’ in a black neighborhood
He’s got an interstate runnin’ through his front yard
You know he thinks that he’s got it so good
And there’s a woman in the kitchen cleanin’ up the evenin’ slop
And he looks at her and says, “Hey darlin’, I can remember when
you could stop a clock.”
CHORUS:
Oh but ain’t that America for you and me
Ain’t that America somethin’ to see baby
Ain’t that America home of the free
Little pink houses for you and me
There’s a young man in a t-shirt
Listenin’ to a rockin’ rollin’ station
He’s got greasy hair, greasy smile
He says, “Lord this must be my destination.”
‘Cause they told me when I was younger
“Boy you’re gonna be president.”
But just like everything else those old crazy dreams
Just kinda came and went
:|| CHORUS
Well there’s people and more people
What do they know know know
Go to work in some high rise
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico
Ooh yeah
And ther’s winners and there’s losers
But they ain’t no big deal
‘Cause the simple man baby pays for the thrills, the bills,
the pills that kill
:|| CHORUS
Is it marketing or is it journalism – Dan Gillmor responds
Taking on my Company: My Response
A “controversy” has been created over whether I should be publicly beating up Knight Ridder for its decision to break old Web links.
Read it. And may I suggest e-mailing him your support and understanding. What’s happened I feel is wrong to say the least. I can say that much even if I am biased on the matter.
Note I took down my previous post. I don’t want mud slinging – that’s entirely not the idea. I’m hoping for discourse. If I can put it back up in some manner that’s reasonable – I will. Admittidly I’m too close to the matter. I admit I have conflicts of interest right up front. I work for the same company as Dan. In any case – like Dan – I gotta get back to work and life.
Technologically advanced civilization from 120 million years ago?
Office vacancy at 40%?
That’s what this SJMerc article says could be the real office vacency rate in Silicon Valley. Wow!
Thank you Mr. papascott
I’d love MT to avoid all that re-rendering too. It’s one of the issues you face when dealing with static file generation systems. If it served up requests dynamically (preferably from a cache of somekind), in a Cofax, Manila, or Zope (if I recall) like way, (not Blogger, Radio or GreyMatter which are static file generators also), the updating of design wouldn’t have to involve so much re-rendering since that would happen on a per-request basis. If you had a site with thousands and thousands of pages, static file generators can be real pains in the ass, re-creating each peace of content with the new design. Some conceal this behavior better then other’s but it’s still occuring. Of course a dynamic system has a whole host of other fun issues 🙂 I wonder if you can have clean URLs with a CGI based system? Hmmmmm. Gotta look into it. It’s all about compromises 🙂
The last time I attempted to talk about this kinda stuff at my site I got misunderstood and flamed. Let’s see what happens this time.
If I’ve misunderstood something – e-mail me before flaming me ok? Let’s be civilized.
A real patriot up on Capitol Hill today
While doing paperwork I watched a great portion of courageous F.B.I. Agent Coleen Rowley’s testimony.
She was inspirational. May her efforts to get out the truth be paid the attention they’re due.
Sometimes people want to goad you into a fight …
They say things to inflame you. To draw you in so that they can try and clobber you.
But as a mentor of mine once said, “If someone gives you a gift and you don’t accept it, who does the gift belong to?”.
Edit: Took away the link. People are obviously trying to have an argument instead of a discussion. Oh well. Gotta listen more to my old mentor.
Is EJB Always Necessary?
So asks this excellent summary of when you should use EJBs over at rebelutionary.
If your application doesn’t involve a lot of true distributed computing or require distributed transaction management, the odds are very good that there’s a better way to do it.
Using EJB often prohibits quick deployment to multiple application servers to compare true performance; servlet containers are actually much friendlier if you’re concerned about portability.
I’ll add in addition that EJB development is an order of magnitude more complex and developers with experience are harder to find and thus, much more expensive, then Servlet->JSP->Bean->Database development. I suggest using them only in the scenario described in the quote above.