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Wednesday February 19, 2003

Microsoft acquires Virtual PC software from Connectix Windows on Mac hardware?! I think this is the best thing that could have happened to Connextix. IMO, Virtual PC was an unusable slow ass dinosaur. Hopefull M$ can improve it - I'd love to have a fast Windows XP window on my Mac. Why not have the best of everything? Throw a little Red Hat on there, and give me 2GHz and I'll be Apple's biggest fan. Posted in Mac OS X at Feb 19 2003, 11:00:12 PM MST Add a Comment

RE: The Rocky Mountain Software Symposium The Rocky Mountain Software Symposium definitely looks like a good time. I'll be attending with bells on. Any other bloggers making the trip? It's about a 10 minute drive for me. ;-) Gordon writes:

The Rocky Mountain Software Symposium not only looks like an awesome speaker lineup, it looks like a large number of bloggers are speaking: Ted Neward, James Duncan Davidson, Erik Hatcher, and Bob Lee. I've submitted my training req!

The sessions look awesome, should be a good time. Posted in Java at Feb 19 2003, 10:56:41 PM MST 1 Comment

Java powers ready.gov! I'm sure you've heard of the new ready.gov website by now. I found out on one of the first pages that it's written using JSPs. I like the site design too - looks good. I don't know that I'll read it, but it's good to see such a professional looking site. Posted in Java at Feb 19 2003, 10:49:05 PM MST Add a Comment

JSP 1.2 <-> JSP 2.0 Here's something that I need: A way to convert JSP 1.2 pages to JSP 2.0 pages. Basically, this only really involves changing all the <c:out value="${...}" /> tags to be simply ${...}. I have a couple motivations for this. The first is that Wrox wants struts-resume and security-example to be written using JSP 2.0 (it is a JSP 2.0 book after all). However, I'm afraid that most developers won't be able to use 2.0 for quite some time, considering that the J2EE 1.4 (with JSP 2.0) won't be released until this summer. So I'd like a way to create a JSP 1.2 version and a JSP 2.0 version of my these applications from the same source code. What would be best - to write the source in JSP 1.2 and then parse it for <c:out /> tags and strip them accordingly? I'd rather write the source in JSP 2.0 and then add in the <c:out /> tags using Ant, since it'd be much simpler. Then again, I've already written a fair amount using JSTL with 1.2. Comments and suggestions are encouraged! Posted in Java at Feb 19 2003, 04:45:02 PM MST 2 Comments

Finishing Chapters: Almost Lost It In the course of the past week, while editing my chapters, Word (XP) has crashed on me a number of times. Every time I've been able to get my work back and lost nothing more than a few minutes. I'm very impressed as I once lost 10 pages in college. As I was finishing up - running spellchecker at 1:00 this morning - I received the following error and I almost lost it. I had to click OK a number of times before it finally recognized it. Picture me sitting here going "no, No, NO!!" ;-)

Posted in General at Feb 19 2003, 02:22:55 AM MST 3 Comments