Are you thinking about getting your Java Programmer 1.4 Certification? I am. I found JavaCertificate.com today via java.blogs. Definitely looks like a great resource for strudying. I don't know when I'll do it - probably when I get a few days to cram. I took the beta without studying and almost passed, so the "real thing" shouldn't be too bad.
Mark Pilgrim has written an excellent introductory tutorial
-- the first of several to come -- that is ostensibly about elements
dropped from XHTML 2 (and what replaces them). But the piece works
equally well as a general primer on how to make the transition from
old-school presentational markup to modern, structural stuff. We've
bookmarked this piece and look forward to reading next month's
follow-up. [Zeldman]
From the article...
There are several key elements and attributes that are slated to be
dropped from XHTML 2.
<br /> has been dropped, replaced by
<l>...</l>.- The inline
style attribute has been dropped, but there
are still plenty of ways to define styles.
<img /> has been dropped, replaced by
<object>...</object>. As we'll see in next
month's article, this may present some serious migration
difficulties.- HTML forms have been dropped, replaced by XForms. This is such a major
change that it also deserves its own article.
I did a bit of research today and it looks fairly simple to incorporate Joe Hewitt-style comments
into Roller. The hard part will be figuring out a way to convert an entry's comments into XML. For instance, Joe loads an XML document (sample) that contains all the comments for a given post. This document
has a DTD which will hopefully make things easier. Here's what a sample XML-based comment entry looks like:
<comment id="000178">
<author>Joe Hewitt</author>
<email />
<url />
<timestamp>April 3, 2003 04:14 PM</timestamp>
<body>
<p>I have readers??</p>
</body>
</comment>
Looks pretty simple eh? So how do we convert comments to XML? Since they're already (or supposed to be) XHTML, should we just use a JSP and JSTL's "x" tag to do a little XSL? That sounds like an easy solution. Or should we figure out a way that we can hit the RSS feed (which could be enhanced to include comments)? Once we've done this, there's some JavaScript to load this document.
// Make url unique to prevent loading it from cache
var cacheKiller = new Date().getTime();
// replace this with a link to a JSP or something
var url = "/content/blog/comments/" + aEntryId + ".xml?" + cacheKiller;
loadXMLDocument(url, onCommentsLoaded);
Please comment with any ideas for the comments-to-XML conversion.
I got a response for how to connect to the internet via my phone.
Yes it is possible, just download the modem driver from www.sonyericsson.com
and you should be all set. As for the speed, the connection from your
laptop to the phone (modem) is always reported as 115Kilobit/sec
however the real speed is 33K if you are lucky! I have tested on many
different location and I can never get the effective speed more than
28Kilobits/sec. Over a wireless link, this is very good.
Cool - I can't wait to try it!
I'm on TMobile's Wireless Network again, only this time, rather than being in Starbuck's, I'm at the bagel place next door. Very cool! Julie's giving me a ride to work today so I can ride my bike home, and we decided to stop for breakfast. I needed to upload a customized release of the CV, so stopping here to do it seemed like a good idea. Why didn't I do it at home? I'm still on dial-up and the upload failed while I was sleeping. Our ISP is supposed to come out today, but I'm not expecting much.
