Sunday, June 02, 2002

In  other news Patrick at PSquad's Corner posted: "That Ravi guy is a real dick. It was nice seeing such constructive criticism being taken so well during this whole Bashing the Cat episode, but then this guy had to go and be an ass about it. Oh well, I think the entire debate has been right on the money, and relates closely to my recent Is EJB Neccessary talk I have to the SDJUG, which Mike now has adapted in to his blog. Too many developers seem to just follow the hype and marketting without actually evaluating alternatives, whether it be a web container or a technology like EJB. " Seems not everyone has taken well to the Tomcat is dead rant. 7:41:46 PM    comment []

But what does it all mean???? Mike at rebelutionary has created a list of other Java/J2EE focused weblogs on his Java and J2EE Weblogs page.  I guess I should stop talking about Java IDEs as I've been labled....(YIKES) hehe  What I'm actually working on is a system that inter-links content via keywords through categories.  What this means (I think) in a nutshell is keywords are assigned to categories and then content is seperated into categories by indexing on those keywords.  This will eventually lead to some other (I hope) interesting things in the near future.  Content management is certainly an interesting topic (to me anyway). 7:32:16 PM    comment []

Mindstorms....it's not just for breakfast any more Saw this article on Sun's java web site and was thinking how if you throw in some gadgets and up the price 10 fold then older people can justify buying lego.  Don't get me wrong, at one time I had around $800 invested in Lego Mindstorms and I think they're very kewl. The reason I got rid of them in the end was that I just couldn't find either the time or a suitable reason to build something.  I guess I'm not in fact a lego maniac after all.  Now had the leJOS project been around at that point I'm pretty sure I might have wanted to experiment further.  It's a nifty little self contained computer that's capable of controlling all sorts of things and has an infra-red interface.  Almost makes me wanna run out and buy the set again.... 7:28:55 PM    comment []