I am once again gripped with that emotion - "there's not enough time in the day!" I wake up at the ass-crack of dawn and still can't seem to get everything done that I need to. So I began planning my days and writing down "to do's" for each day. I'm using iCal for the time being, with Outlook and Yahoo's Calendar in my back-pocket if this doesn't work out. As a small experiment, I created the Denver JUG's upcoming meeting list as an iCal. Feel free to subscribe, I don't plan on deleting it.
I've had people ask me how to run Tomcat on Port 80 before (as a non-root user). I've never had an answer until now. Today I found that Holger Klawitter has a solution using Kernel space port forwarding. I don't have a need to try this at the moment, but if someone is using it - please share your experiences.
As an FYI, Tomcat 5 will use commons-daemon making this much easier to do. Also, the first Beta of Tomcat 5 (5.0.9) has been released.
Russ reminds us why Web Standards are cool:
From Zeldman which I just recently added to my aggregator, I just saw this great awesome article on how the XHTML/CSS design was created for the new Lee Jeans - One True Fit website.
The overview is short and to the point and gives links to all the
tricks used on the page to get the design desired. Adding ?style=false
to any of the page's urls will show the non-css markup. The difference
is astounding. I'm more and more amazed at the power of a good designer
and CSS every day.
This article is very elegant in explaining how CSS and XHTML can simplify your life. I'm a huge fan of web standards and (luckily) have been able to convince most teams/clients to use them in the past couple of years. Just to remind you how easy it is to write XHTML, check out the New York Public Library's XHTML Guidelines.
On a related topic, I've had a few folks ask for my wiki's theme recently. So here it is. Enjoy!
I can tell I've been out of the loop for awhile. Hibernate has improved their site and moved to their domain (hibernate.org). Cool - looks very nice fellas. I especially dig the fact that you're now hosting your own user forums.
I'm not doing much Hibernate work these days - my new gig already has all the persistence layer written with JDBC DAO's, so there's not much reason to re-write them. The funny part is that if I need to write a new DAO, it'd probably be faster for me to do it with Hibernate, but since politics require all technologies be approved - it'd never happen. Why do the tools developers use have to be approved? So new (and existing) developers don't have to constantly learn new stuff. Bad for brain, good for business.
