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Tuesday June 10, 2003

RE: java.net's weblogs Mike Clark does a little to answer my earlier questions regarding java.net's weblogs.

In addition to this personal blog, I'm also writing a blog on java.net, unveiled today at the opening of JavaOne.

How to maintain two blogs? Duplication is icky. So frankly, I'm not sure how this will work out yet. There will be entries on this blog that aren't relevant to the java.net audience, and vice versa. Javaish things are a subset of the entries on my personal blog. At any given time I'm fiddling with multiple languages and tools. I may actually post all blog entries here, then copy relevant entries to the java.net space. Better yet, I suspect that eventually java.net will be able to automatically slurp specific RSS category feed.

What I do know is that this will be my primary blog. If I write something on java.net, I'll let ya'll know. You can also snag my java.net RSS feed just to keep me honest.

Hmmm, java.net's weblogs seem to have some pretty good authors. They get a real big thumps up from me now that I see they have a Native Montanan blogging there!

Update: More good answers were left in a comment by James:

Some answers to your questions on both the Java.net site and on my blog.

Just the answers I wanted to hear I might add! Posted in Java at Jun 10 2003, 08:17:27 PM MDT Add a Comment

XUL vs. Sun's JNDC Gerald Bauer wrote an interesting e-mail to the XUL-Announce mailing list a few minutes ago. I think it's a good read - and I'd agree - XUL should be the next generation of web-based UIs, not Java. Java has succeeded on the server-side - let's keep it there. Posted in Java at Jun 10 2003, 02:05:39 PM MDT 1 Comment

RE: Java Java Java From the other Matt:

I dig the java.com site - the layout/look is very cool IMO. Christina must be making a bundle from Sun, eh? Posted in Java at Jun 10 2003, 01:21:10 PM MDT Add a Comment

JavaScript: removeChild HOWTO I experienced a small issue this morning when trying to remove all the children from a <td> using the following:

// cells[i] is a td in a table
var kids = cells[i].childNodes;
for (j=0; j < kids.length; j++) {
    cells[j].removeChild(kids[j]);
}

This (for some reason) doesn't work. So, in the interest of helping others and getting picked up by Google, here's the solution (actually found via Google).

while (cells[i].childNodes[0]) {
    cells[i].removeChild(cells[i].childNodes[0]);
}

HTH! Posted in The Web at Jun 10 2003, 10:38:38 AM MDT 8 Comments

java.net's weblogs So Java.net has weblogs. Boring ones I suspect. Why? Because this seems to be a "corporate" portal and I doubt that these folks are going to wite about how cool their kids are or how nice their mountain bike ride was (a.k.a. stuff that's interesting). But that's the nature of weblogs - some are good, some aren't. Let me qualify that by saying that some weblogs are interesting to me, and some aren't.

After writing this, I did a little investigating and there are some good bloggers over there (James Duncan Davidson, RSS). There are a couple questions I have. Is the content moderated? Can these bloggers speak their true feelings (can they cuss) - or will Sun remove their posting. Secondly, will they maintain this as their primary blog, or will personal ones continue to be updated. Are we enterering the world of your work blog and your home blog?

Truth is, I probably won't even read them unless they get an RSS feed for all new postings like java.blogs has. I gotta agree with Mike, I'm not changing any bookmarks. But I would like to be convinced otherwise. Hey, at least they're trying - you gotta give them credit for that. Posted in Java at Jun 10 2003, 08:55:37 AM MDT 2 Comments