I got inspired by Russ's post and decided to try once again to connect my PowerBook to the Internet using Bluetooth/GRPS. I found an OS X GRPS HowTo on AT&T's site, and whaddya know - I'm connected 10 minutes later. Very cool - 29.8 KB per second (according to http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest). Hopefully, I'll never need to use this, but it's nifty to know it's there.
After searching and interviewing for the last few weeks, I finally decided on my next gig this morning. Phew - I'm glad that process is over with.
I've accepted a position with ResortQuest [quote] in Lafayette, CO (about 30 miles north of my house). They run a high traffic (I think) website for booking vacation rentals and own many local property management companies. Currently, it's written in Cold Fusion and I'll be helping them migrate it to a Struts-based architecture. They've already done their Smoky Mountain site in Tennessee, and now there's a big push to get the mountain resort properties done for the ski season.
I'm pretty pumped about the position - there's a team of about 10 and also a Graphics Design group. I've never been on a team with a Graphics Design group - so that should be awesome - no more worrying about look and feel, just coding. The commute might kinda suck, but most traffic is going the other way. Not being able to ride my bike to work will be a bummer, but none of my other opportunities had that either - so I can't fault them for that. One of the biggest perks is that they don't have a BYOL policy, and they've already got the machines in house, so I can hit the ground running.
Because I don't need to bring my own laptop, I will be returning the ZX7 today. Who knows if I'll get a new computer anytime soon - I don't really need one now. My newly installed XP box is humming along just fine, and all I really need is a DVD burner. Does anyone know if it's possible to buy/connect an external DVD burner to a PowerBook? Julie has recently got into iMovie video-editing and we'd like to burn these to DVD w/o buying a whole new computer.
I found a cool State Tag this morning that I'm using in my project this week. It works very nice and just like I'd expect. Here's how I'm using it:
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/statetag"
prefix="state" %>
...
<bean:define id="state" name="userFormEx"
property="state" type="java.lang.String" />
<state:state name="state" default="<%=state%>" />