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10+ YEARS


Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

Jaguary vs. Panther - performance numbers

While I'm waiting, I might as well post [my performance numbers|PerformanceComparisons] for Jaguar. I'll update this post when I finally get Panther installed on my laptop. I'm willing to bet my new 2.6 GHz Dell Dimension 8300 blows the doors off all of these numbers. We'll find out later this week!

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 27 2003, 11:54:37 AM MST Add a Comment

My name hurting Pro JSP sales?

I guess Amazon (or Apress) figured that if they removed my name from Amazon's listing of Pro JSP - they'd boost their sales. I don't mind, whatever it takes!

Posted in Java at Oct 27 2003, 11:19:01 AM MST 4 Comments

Getting help from the Geniuses

I'm now at my local local Apple Store trying to get this damn upgrade accomplished. The guy who's working on it thinks its fingerprints on Disc 1 that's causing the problem. I'll be fricken livid if this is the problem. If it's not, that means this guy doesn't believe I know what I'm talking about and I've just wasted 30 minutes while he sees the same behavior that I've seen. If it is fingerprints, I'm an idiot and I'll walk out of her with an upgraded machine in 30 minutes or so.

Update: A nice stack trace towards the end of disc 1 finally prompted them to try new CDs. Once again, more waiting...

Update 2: New CDs didn't help - the upgrade still froze when installing Asian Languages (or something like that). I left it there for them to fix. Hopefully, I'll get back an upgraded machine in the next day or two.

Update 3: I just talked with the guys from the Apple store - my 3rd party RAM was causing the problem. They removed it and Panther installed just fine. Now I get the joy of installing it again (when I get home tonight) and hoping it works. If not, I'd better get my money back from OWC!

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 27 2003, 10:43:47 AM MST 1 Comment

The upgrade saga continues...

Continuing from yesterday...

Today I tried doing a "clean install" with Panther. That didn't work either - it quit with a "installation failed" error. Finally, I tried erasing my hard drive and going that route. Then Panther said it couldn't find an OS X installation to upgrade. To make matters worse, I can't boot to my OS X 10.1 nor 10.2 install disks. I hold down Ctrl+C with no luck. Thanks to some advice on the Apple Discussion Forums - I'm now restoring back to 10.2. I suppose I'll try to upgrade again after that - but I'm suspicious that the CDs are bad.

Later: Must be a bad install CD. I restored my PowerBook with the restore DVD and tried to upgrade. It made it most of the way through the upgrade, and then gave me a gray screen with a spinner at the bottom. After 20 minutes of waiting, I figured it was hosed and re-installed 10.2 with the DVD. I guess I'll head to the Apple store for an exchange tomorrow. Panther truly sucks right now in my opinion - don't upgrade unless you're a glutten for punishment (like I am).

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 26 2003, 06:43:25 PM MST 1 Comment

Upgrade to Panther - not pretty

I've tried to upgrade to Panther 3 times now, all with the installer getting hung up somewhere along the process (in different locations each time). The sweet thing about having 2 PowerBooks is that I can mount my bad-upgrade machine as a Firewire drive - and back up all my files. Looks like this upgrade is going to require a format first...

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 25 2003, 04:04:05 PM MDT 3 Comments

At the game

Nuggets behind by 6 at halftime.

Nuggets behind by 6 at halftime.

Posted in General at Oct 24 2003, 11:47:55 PM MDT

Guys night out

Light Rail to the Nuggets game.

Light Rail to the Nuggets game.

Posted in General at Oct 24 2003, 11:47:46 PM MDT Add a Comment

Real world speed tests for Panther?

Everyone keeps saying that Panther is much faster than Jaguar. So let's get some real world proof. I'm looking to run 2-4 tests on my top-o-the-line Powerbook - first on Jaguar (today) and then on Panther after I upgrade (tomorrow). Hook me up with your suggestions!

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 24 2003, 07:35:12 AM MDT 6 Comments

How can I import local html/text files into a JSP page?

I posted the following message to the taglibs-user mailing list, but thought I'd do it here as well - since I know I have some smart readers.

I have a requirement to allow reading of "assets" for a website from a local CD. These assets might be images, flash movies, html/text pages, etc. I've got everything working but rendering html/text. When I do the rendering of text/html online, I use <c:import url="/assets/filename.html"/>, and offline, I do <c:import url="file:///e:/assets/filename.html"/>. I can enter this fine in Mozilla and the page will come up, but JSTL's c:import tag says it can't find the file.

2 questions:

1. Can I use c:import to import a local HTML file onto a page?
2. If not, is there any way to do this?

Any ideas?

Posted in Java at Oct 24 2003, 06:02:01 AM MDT 11 Comments

eBay hooks me up with a new computer

One good quality of a company - they keep your computer up to date. The company I work for bought me a new computer today. Dell Dimension 8300 P4 2.6 HT 80G. This will replace my 1.5 Dell Dimension 8100 - XP Pro, which (with cygwin) continues to me my favorite development environment. We're giving my Dell and Julie's Dell (that I bought for $200 from eDeploy) to charity. I also have an old 300 MHz Compaq Presario that's slow as slugs - I'm going to throw it away and not place that burden on someone else (it serves as a patio umbrella stand right now).

Posted in General at Oct 23 2003, 10:48:24 PM MDT 2 Comments