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Thursday October 31, 2002

Record Snow!

Record Snow at Vail Vail posted this picture today on their website and mentioned:

With snow falling all night long Vail reports 13 inches of new snow at Mid-Vail and a 20 inch settled base!!!! This surpasses our record for snow on this date. THINK SNOW!!

Sweet, and I got my season pass today in the mail! This ski season is lookin' good awesome!

Beaver Creak Breckenridge Keystone

Did I mention that my ski pass is good at 5 mountains? Vail, Keystone, Breckenridge, Arapahoe Basin and Beaver Creek - all for $299!

Posted in General at Oct 31 2002, 01:22:53 PM MST Add a Comment
Wednesday October 30, 2002

Good Wiki vs. Good Java Wiki

I discovered yesterday that I have PHP installed on this server. Today I discovered Tiki. And I ask myself, "Are you looking for a good wiki, or a good java-based wiki?" If you've noticed Tiki's release date (1.0 Released Nov 28 2002), it appears to be ahead of it's time.

Posted in General at Oct 30 2002, 12:56:58 AM MST Add a Comment
Tuesday October 29, 2002

.NET vs. J2EE Performance

If you've read this thread or this story at The Server Side, you owe it to yourself to read Rickard's rebuttal.

In other news, Simon Stewart (no blog to my knowledge) has sent me the font I needed, and therefore iCal is working again. What a guy - thanks Simon!

Posted in General at Oct 29 2002, 11:57:24 PM MST Add a Comment

First Snow

View from our backyard This view is what we woke up to this morning. Julie cringed and moaned, while I yelled "yeeee haaawww!" It motivated me to buy my ski pass for this year and I can't wait for my first 9" day...

Posted in General at Oct 29 2002, 10:26:53 AM MST Add a Comment

Outage Tonight at 8:30 MST

I doubt this will effect anyone, but this site might be down tonight for a few minutes. In case it doesn't come back, here's your warning.

There will be a brief outage at KGB Internet Solutions on some servers. We will be upgrading server memory on the server your web site is hosted on at approx. 0230 UTC. We will be forcing the web sites over to the backup server during this process, so the outages should only be for five or ten minutes while the secondary takes over, and then again when the primary takes over again after the upgrade.

Posted in General at Oct 29 2002, 08:40:18 AM MST Add a Comment

Sun ONE App Server 7

I downloaded and installed the Sun ONE App Server 7 this morning (on WinXP). Install was about 100 times easier than they used to be. I actually became an expert at installing iPlanet because they asked you so many damn questions, and answering one wrong could screw up your whole installation. I must've installed iPlanet 2.1-6 over 200 times! Good to see that almost anyone can do it now. My first test was to see if the struts-example app ran properly. I'm happy to report it did - with no errors visible on the UI. This is the first Sun app server release that this is possible on. Here's what I had to do in the past to get Struts running on iPlanet. I did see two errors in the log file while running Struts though:

WARNING: Error: JAXP SAXParser property not recognized: 
http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage

and

INFO: Processing a 'POST' for path '/saveSubscription'
SEVERE: Database save
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied 
(java.io.FilePermission D:\Tools\Sun\AppServer7\domains\domain1\server1\
applications\j2ee-modules\struts-example_1\WEB-INF\database.xml.old 
delete)

I'm sure both of these could be easily fixed with a little digging. The admin UI is much better - now an HTML UI rather than a Swing UI - appears to be powered by JATO. Deploying was super-simple, browse for WAR file, click upload. I especially like the option to pre-compile all the JSPs.

In other news, I attemted to use an Atomz (free) search engine last night to index this site, and it appears I have too much to use the free (500 page) service. I might try it anyway, but here's my stats:

Your site is larger than the index size limits that our Express product allows.
...
It took 1 hour to crawl 2324 pages and index 510 pages containing 448497 words for a total of 52432830 bytes. 6112 word endings, 0 synonyms, and 3350 sound-alike words were included in the index.

Posted in General at Oct 29 2002, 03:45:12 AM MST Add a Comment
Monday October 28, 2002

Should I learn PHP?

It probably wouldn't take very long to learn, and it seems like a lot of folks like it. Is it worth it - a.k.a. will it get me more clients?

According to The FuzzyBlog!, Yahoo likes it. Read why Yahoo will use PHP over all other open source technologies. Personally, I think they chose PHP because they have the inventor working for them.

I think I'll pass on learning it at this time - I'm having to much fun with Java and all it's goodies.

Posted in General at Oct 28 2002, 05:38:15 AM MST Add a Comment

Sun ONE will be free, and maybe Solaris?

From CNET News:

The company said it has released two new versions of its Sun ONE Application Server 7. The Platform Edition is available as a free download for Solaris and Windows operating systems. The Standard Edition includes additional management tools and costs $2,000 per server processor.

Maybe Sun is listening to Russell, because they've really started to pick things up lately. If you look at their homepage, it's all about this download. Too bad there's no Linux/OS X version. I doubt I can hack the Solaris version to work on OS X - though I was able to hack the Solaris J2EE RI to work. I've heard great things about the 7.0 version of the app server. I hope it does well.

Bias Alert: I've worked with Netscape/iPlanet application server since NAS 2.1 and have detailed knowledge how everything works/doesn't work. So my hoping for a better version is definitely tied to my existing knowledge and hopes of leveraging it with folks hoping to implement a Sun ONE Solution. Also, I am certified to teach iPlanet courses for Sun and I'd love to start getting more teaching gigs - they've been non-existent lately.

Posted in General at Oct 28 2002, 04:51:06 AM MST Add a Comment
Wednesday October 23, 2002

Wiki Evaluation.

I'm conducting an evaluation of wiki's to use on this site. I'm taking a look at Gareth Cronin's Very Quick Wiki, Russell Beattie's SimpleWeb, and Ghoot Emaho's Chiki. My only criteria is that it must be an Open Source Java-based implementation. If you know of any others, let me know.

Update 1: I got a note from Ugo Cei of Be Blogging to check out Open Wiki. Unfortunately, it's an ASP implementation, so it doesn't satisfy my only criteria. It really looks very slick, and I especially like the attempt to follow web-standards (indicated by the w3c icons on the bottom right).

Update 2: Brad Smith (no blog in e-mail) sent me a head-up about JSPWiki this evening. This one looks pretty cool - it's got a RSS feed and statistics. Just to be fair, SimpleWeb has an RSS feed as well.

I've begun my first phase of the evaluation and will update notes in this post accordingly - after I'm done, I'll add to to my Articles list. Keep the suggestions coming - I'll eval as many as I have time for and hopefully keep the list growing.

Update 3: Here is a rough list of features I put together last night (Saturday, 10-26-02) about features I read from each wiki's documentation. I jotted down some quick thoughts and I will evolve them over the next few days. This is only a 15 minute analysis, more to come soon.

Very Quick Wiki:

  • Email notification
  • Virtual wikis
  • MySQL support
  • Custom file system directory
  • File uploads
  • Wiki markup vs HTML
  • Admin console
  • The search engine
  • Diff
  • Username cookies
  • Versioning
  • Locking

Plus: version 2.0, Easy install
Minus: Doesn't Validate (no character encoding)
Development: Somewhat Active

SimpleWeb

  • No Documentation

Plus: Nice Interface, E-Mail Signup, Russel wrote it (a.k.a. you'll probably get good support), RSS Feed
Minus: Doesn't Validate (no character encoding), No documentation, No Web UI To Configure (had to search and find .jspf files under WEB-INF), No binary distribution, have to download and compile, Version 0.1
Development: Not Active

Chiki

  • Simple Content Creation and Editing: edit existing pages or create new pages by using any web browser - no need to upload pages via ftp or http
  • Edit Content: simply click on the Edit option and make your changes
  • Create Content: simply type in the name of the new page you want
  • Automatic links: pages are linked automatically. You do not need to learn Html commands to link pages.
  • Text formatting: simple, powerful and easy to learn text formatting rules. If you can use email, you can use Chiki !
  • Nodes: pages are grouped into Chiki Nodes. This allows simple organisation of content and collaboration areas
  • Content Search: full text search
  • Content Links: simply click on the links option to see what other content pages link to this one
  • Access Control: you must be registered and logged in to edit and create content, otherwise you have read access only
  • Recent Activity: shows the most recent edit/create operations performed

Plus: Uses Struts and Castor, User Login to Edit, Homepage is powered by Chiki
Minus: Doesn't validate (no character encoding), Version 0.27
Development: Stagnant - was active when first released, but seems to have lost momentum

JSPWiki

  • RSS Feed
  • XML-RPC interface
  • Skins (2.0)
  • Authentication and Access Control (2.0)
  • Search
  • File Upload
  • User Preferences (username)
  • Recent Changes
  • Diff

Plus: Homepage is powered by JSPWiki, Future plans documented on website, version 1.97
Minus: Doesn't validate (but does include DOCENGINE), plain and boring interface, No Admin UI
Development: Seems to be Active - lots of discussions on homepage

Posted in General at Oct 23 2002, 07:39:22 AM MDT 1 Comment

Nice Photos!

I wonder what kind of digital camera James Duncan Davidson has? He's posted some really nice pictures of his hike up Yosemite falls on Monday.

Posted in General at Oct 23 2002, 06:49:53 AM MDT Add a Comment