Last one for the day
This MozBlog thing makes blogging too easy :-) I just saw myself appearing in the top 100 of Radio-driven weblogs. Whee.
9:21:44 PM    comment []  

New (?) Cocoon Blogger
Yippie - another Cocoon Blogger spotted, thanks to Ugo - link them all - Cei and javablogs. Unfortunately, I can't add him to my blogroll, Radio barfs on the RDF syndication feed. Anyone else with more luck?
9:14:43 PM    comment []  

Green Card Lottery
This is sarcastically funny... 'Double chances for married people'... 'One person out of 70 wins the Green Card'!
8:33:14 PM    comment []  

Servlet Container Performance Report
Web Performance, Inc. published a Servlet Container Performance Report. The fact they focus solely on Servlet performance is a Good Thing to me, since we don't do much EJB development anyhow (most of the times, it is overkill for what we are trying to achieve - and often, the technology is chosen for the wrong reasons). They are putting Tomcat 4.1.12, Orion 1.5.2, Jetty 4.1.1, Resin 2.1.5, Sun ONE 7.0 and WebSphere 4.0 next to each other. Pramati and Weblogic have not been put to test since they don't want to participate in benchmarks (or, at least, they don't want the results to be published). Ha!From a first glance, the report doesn't appear to be as essentially flawed as some other benchmark recently published. Tomcat 4.1.12 is doing quite well, even in comparison with some known speed machines. I'm happy that I convinced Dan to install Tomcat 4.1.12 on cocoondev.org - Jira is running nice and dandy.
8:05:41 PM    comment []  

CVS suckage
Trying to set up some guidelines and best practices for CVS repositories on cocoondev.org. If anyone knows how to set up CVS 'Apache-style', i.e.CVS_RSH/SSH based read/write access tuned using avail, and read-only anonymous CVS access through pserver/readers/passwd, and is willing to share some tips with me, I'll buy him or her a (Belgian!) beer.
5:07:25 PM    comment []  

Re-trust?
My behaviour of yesterday has been mentioned as an antipattern to distrust. Given the origin of that compliment, it feels like a real one. 'Better understanding through blogging', one never knows...?

MozBlog, my favourite blog client so far, appears to be pingback-enabled. Mighty cool - let's check it with our blogging übergeek... no luck :-(

I had better luck with the Pingback spec itself however:

Analysing http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback ...
found pingback url: http://tracking.damowmow.com/

3:14:42 PM    comment []  

Lab rats
Imagine this: Apache isn't about community and code anymore, it is a large scientific experiment created to do social research on developer's interactions and the adaptivity of open source communities. The Matrix is back. Committers are disguised as labrats, and a number of wicked scientists are twisting and turning knobs, tweaking parameters formally known as committers guidelines, AUP, The Apache Way, or Rules for Revolutionaries. Less code, more talk :-)
It isn't about projects anymore, it is about meta-projects, which are lab experiments solely designed to prove the fact that 'parameters are there to be changed'. Really? Which pill will you swallow? The red or the blue one?
Disclaimer: this was a joke. A mad scientist made me say it. I will be dissected after this.

10:08:46 AM    comment []  

I wanna date you!
At the age of 32, I decided how I'm going to properly spell a date in my English writings. Finally :-)
As you perhaps know (ha!), there is confusion in some parts of the world w.r.t. the correct order of the day, month and year values that make up a date. My wife's next birthday on 7/5/2003 is a nice example of the confusion this causes. Mine on 30/10/2003 is luckily a bit more clear (yes, I'm almost 6 months younger than my wife!)
I could use some ISO sort-of-spec order, stating my daughter's date of birth as 2002-05-25, but let's be honest, you only want to use this format if you put a lot of dates in a table. And if you're a borderline geek. Besides, I'm the kind of guy who still needs to count on his fingers to find out July really is the 7th month. Is it? Let me count... yes.
As you see, lots of trouble, so I decided to create my own date notation format. I'll be going to the Frankfurther Cocoon Stammtisch on 9/Dec 2002. My two boys were born on 20/Jan 1997 and 19/Jul 1998 respectively. See how easy that is?

12:41:45 AM    comment []  

Color UML?
Too late: Java Modeling in Color with UML.
12:12:48 AM    comment []