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XDoclet 1.2 Beta 1 Released.

I saw this a couple of days ago when I did a cvs checkout of xdoclet, but never mentioned it. Found via the rebelutionary:

Kevin beat me to the news that xDoclet 1.2.0 (beta 1) has hit the street. And yes, they're using JIRA now! *cheer* [kev's catalogue of this and that.]

We'd love to use XDoclet 1.2 in Roller, but I'm stumped on this issue. Any hints or tips are much appreciated.

It's almost that time of year in Colorado.

It's shaping up to be a helluva ski season this year. I can't wait! My wife can't wait to move to Florida next spring. The little one (due November 7th) should keep us both happy until then.

The question is "should I get a ski pass or not?" I've had one for the last 5 years, but last year sucked and I had only one 9" day at work. The year before, I had over ten! With snow already resting beatifully on our mountain tops, this year is lookin' good.

New Blog to Read.

I found this gem off scripting.com a few minutes ago:

Apple VP Ken Bereskin explains a new Mac OS X feature every day on his Radio weblog. #

The worst feeling.

Oh man, I feel for poor ol' Russ.

I forgot to swap my hard-drives before installing Redhat.

It's gone. Everything. Gone. For some reason, a couple weeks ago I bought a 25-pack of CDRWs ready to go... and haven't used any of them except to back up some pics and Ana's file (during her original move). All my emails for the past 8 months (since my last backup) gone. Dev work? Pretty much gone. Graphics? Passwords? Documents? Software keys? Any digital photos from the past several weeks? Gone, gone, gone.

I've been there before, and I can't tell you how many times I've "rescued" my Windows box from sure death (well over 20 times). My advice - a six pack will ease your pain. The last time I hosed my machine I waited for a full 2 days to try to fix it, and whalla - I actually fixed it in under an hour! About 2 months ago I made it a lot simpler for myself and only do one OS per machine. My condolences - here's to finding your backup.

Upgrading to Tomcat 4.1.12.

I attempted to upgrade this site to use Tomcat 4.1.12 a couple hours ago, but had to back it out when I found that it doesn't follow symlinks by default. I've been trying to figure out a way to turn it on, but I haven't figured it out yet. I did find this e-mail, which made me think I could just add allowLinking="true" to my roller context. I was about to jump in and try it out, and then I thought - maybe I should see if anyone is on the site. I found 400+ active sessions! Yikes... I doubt that many folks have visited today - have they? I just restarted Tomcat a couple of hours ago. Here's what I saw in the manager application.

Installing Red Hat, Part 3.

And just like that, I'm finished - in approx. 21 hours and 30 minutes from when I decided to start downloading. The smoothest upgrade of any operating system I've ever seen. I really like the new desktop UI - but I've always been a sucker for eye candy.

Tomcat is the most popular app server?

That's what they're saying over at theserverside.com:

The most commonly used Java application server execution environment today is Apache Software Foundation's Tomcat, according to BZ Research's latest Java Awareness Study, conducted in August 2002. In the study, 52.2 percent of all respondents said Tomcat was currently in use at their companies.

"The app-server question response clustered into four groupings, with Tomcat standing alone. Next were the three major commercial Java app servers: IBM's WebSphere, at 29.0 percent; BEA's WebLogic, at 24.5 percent; and Oracle's Oracle9iAS, at 20.8 percent."

Read: http://www.sdtimes.com/news/063/story2.htm.

Sometimes it's the little things.

I just checked out the latest version of Roller from CVS and found some very cool stuff. I especially like the [Edit] link at the end of each entry. I also dig the Ekit editor much more than I thought I would. The good news - I'm running it on Tomcat 4.1.12 (WinXP, JDK 1.4.1) - with no issues. Must be a good great web app to make such a smooth transition. Dare we say standards-compliant?! 564 out of 646.

Installing Red Hat, Part 2.

As you might've guessed, the first 2 CD's installed in about a 1/2 hour and know I'm waiting for disc3 to complete. 200 MB left, ~50KB/s. The GUI interface for installing has smooth fonts like Quartz Extreme on OS X and Clear Type on Windows XP. It's interesting on these Red Hat downloads - this is my 3rd or 4th one and there's definitely an art to it. I usually surf through the mirrors list with SmartFTP open (on Windows) and copy the ftp urls. SmartFTP detects an FTP url on the clipboard, prompts you to connect, and away you go. Yesterday and today, I'm about 1 for 10 on those servers that actually let me get through. But you can't stop there, you have to find the fastest server you can. Last night, I had good luck with a couple servers from Australia. The fastest one I ever found was ftp.orst.edu - I downloaded one CD in less than a couple hours! I couldn't believe it - maybe someone forgot to turn on my bandwidth constrictor. 472 out of 646.

Jabber Weblog.

I found the weblog of the Executive Director of the Jabber Software Foundation. I'll be adding this to my daily-reads list.