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Thursday, 11 July 2002 |
Sad note of the day. It would appear, to my humble fingers anyway, that I can't feed Batik with JDom without going all the way down to bytes using our old friends ByteArrayInputStream and ByteArrayOutputStream.
I tried unsuccessfully to build a org.w3c.dom.Document tree in JDom and hand this into Batik. Batik get cranky and threw hissy fits. It probably comes down to the fact that I don't know valid from invalid org.w3c.dom structures.
Anyway, if someone knows a higher level way, i'd be happier. Is there a way of getting Batik to eat SAX events? (IIRC, there is a way to get JDom to generate SAX events). I'm out of my depth. Help... :)
6:45:28 PM 
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Your loss 
| | Took my laptop in for an HD and memory upgrade yesterday. The guy behind the counter knew who I was and asked if I'd heard of Blog Wars. (Don't click yet. Keep reading.) "You mean warblogs?" Nope, he said. Blog Wars. "Watch out," he added. "It's really over the top." |
| | More like it's really under the bottom. The site is flat-out pornographic. But not a porn site. I mean, it doesn't open 40 windows you can't close or anything like that. It is kind of a Slashdot for sex and gross-out topics. There are a few nuggets like this link to a bizarre idea for WTC2. But... man, there's some nasty shit on there. |
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[Doc Searls Weblog]
I think that was meant to be http://blogwars.com/ - but don't read it at work. ;)
6:25:48 PM
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Hey cool, Ant 1.5 has gone gold. Or platinum. Or something.
I wonder if there is any chance of getting the Jakarta News page as an RSS feed ...
4:54:56 PM
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I just noticed something silly about CLI's homepage - there aint an easy to hit "Download now" button/link/page.
What's up with that?
4:49:43 PM
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Something I haven't used in a while - Bitmechanic's JDBC Connection Pool. Now that oracle's jdbc pool now ships with it's own under the hood connection pooler, is there much point to doing connection pooling on top of oracle jdbc?
(Yeah, yeah, I know, write a bench mark app. Bite me. :)
4:21:35 PM
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A friend asked me today how I would go about developing a win32 app, with the view that cross platform would be a nice bonus. After meandering through the general chit-chat, here's what the requirements looked like:
- Win32 native L&F,
- Moderate data size requirements,
- Need for multi-threaded implementation for UI timeliness.
Obvious candidates that come to mind are Java and C#. Being the Java-Weenie that I am, I have an Obvious bias here. So, here's the list of libraries i'd wind up using with something like this:
- SWT/JFace for the win32 l&f, with linux portability,
- JBoss to give an easy to use multi-thread safe way to represent the data model,
- XDoclet to allow easier coding of all the J2EE crap ;) ,
- JUnit for the obvious,
- SAP DB as an easy self maintaining data store, and
- Axis for splitting the back-end (with the business rules) and a front-end UI client.
I can pretty much state that no app developer out there would over engineer a desk top app like this. It's insane. But y'know what? The above outlined solutions instantly enforces seperation of concerns, and allows for the possibility of multiple users using the system just like most current desktop applications don't.
Heh. I wonder if all the above would actually run on a standard win2k box with 256meg of ram? Find out soon, I guess.
3:57:50 PM
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Roller 0.9.4.1 source release. I just uploaded a new new source release because the 0.9.4 release did not include build scripts! The build scripts do so much code generation that there is really no way to do a build without them and nobody complained (that is an interesting data point). Anyhow, after you down load
roller-src-0.9.4.1.tgz and
roller-tools-0.9.4.1.tgz, doing a build should be as easy as this (and ignore the XDoclet warnings):
% tar xzvf roller-src-0.9.4.1.tgz
% tar xzvf roller-tools-0.9.4.1.tgz
% cd roller
% build all
[Blogging Roller]
Just snarfing this for my own keepsake.
3:43:56 PM
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Bandwidth Is King. The Bandwidth Capital of the World
Suffice it to say that South Koreans aren't playing The Sims Online, they're living it.
Be afraid, entertainment industry. Be very afraid. [The Shifted Librarian]
Finally someone gets what the Internet is truly about. About fuckin' time. Choice quote from the article:
IN THE US and Europe, where media companies are obsessed with pumping copyrighted content into living rooms, online games are not acknowledged as the market driver for broadband. But in other parts of the world, especially where population density is high and PC game rooms are giving millions of people their first taste of connectivity, online games are becoming the hottest high-bandwidth ticket in town.
So what is the take home here? If you want to know where the future of the internet is - it is in building tools that allow people to interact in new and interesting ways. Take irc/im/mail/blogs, blend in some tolkeinesque mystique, and allow large numbers of people to create their own realities.
Ahhh, goddamn, it feels good to be home.
3:40:41 PM
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Looks like 1.4.1 beta is now circulating. Quotable quotes from that page:
Version 1.4.1 advances rich client application development and provides the foundation for standards-based, interoperable Web services that can be built and deployed today!
That being said, anyone seen a delta list between 1.4 and 1.4.1?
2:52:39 PM
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Clustering with JBoss 3.0. Clustering with JBoss 3.0. OK - so JBoss 3 is rapidly gaining my respect, it's clustering architecture sounds awesome. Automatic deployment across the cluster, JNDI replication, new servers automatically find the cluster, ability to turn on / off different clusterable items. This is really top stuff. [rebelutionary]
Features wise, JBoss is looking very nice. It has a traditional open source project problem - lack of doco. I mean, it's nearly a 30 meg tarball to get 3.0.0 integrated into tomcat4, and do you think I can find a README? Help! :P
(I remember the old days where it was common place for downloads to include cooking instructions on how to get the software to work, as opposed to expecting the user to d/l'd the tarball, and then go back to the website to read the instructions. Blah)
12:13:58 PM
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Networking vendors eat their babies. Hey, it's a tough world out there [The Register]
Scary quote:
Sangster commented that the recovery of the networking sector is tied to a recovery in end user spending which she now believes will not happen until the second half of 2003, later than many commentators previously forecast.
12:10:15 PM
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thread. In a recent thread at theServerSide Luxor was mentioned which is a Java implementation of XUL. I mused on the thread that if someone did a Flash implementation as well then that could work natively in IE, then all the major browsers and Java would support XUL so it'd have a great chance of becoming a new standard. [james strachan's musings]
Pity it is GPL. Apache's license is much better for those of us trying to do consulting work. I am starting to get seriously engrossed in swt/jface tho.
12:08:41 PM
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Mozilla. I've often wondered, now that Mozilla browsers natively support XUL, whether it would catch on as a new XML language for specifying user interfaces for web applications. [james strachan's musings]
The question becomes, would you, as a user, like a website redesigning your browser?
If we are talking about mozilla, then we could see the rise of a new class of weblications - lightweight downloads that give you persistent UI objects which communicate with other weblications and/or servers using either soap or xml-rpc.
This in and of itself would be a major boon to in-house app development - the ease of web based depolyment, with the control of centralised servers for remembering centralised state.
Think of it as a lightweight Java Web Start. The problem in my eyes would be the implementation language - JavaScript. everal years of helping front end folks debug cross browser problems has left me with ill feeling towards JavaScript. It's irrational, but it's the way it is. *sigh*
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