Saturday November 30, 2002

Re: Sick as a dog

Sick as a dawg

Argh. I'm sick. Hopefully its just a cold and not the flu. I hate being sick. [Evil Thoughts]

Me too. :-( [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog]

Me too!

And now Russell appears to have gotten ill as well!

Perhaps Java.Blogs is spreading a virus of some sort? Or is it a more sinister conspiracy? I'd heard that blogging was contagious, but this is ridiculous!

Still later (next day in fact): It is a conspiracy! Now Matt has fallen victim to the strange, blog driven, human virus! ( Nov 30 2002, 10:18:48 PM ) News Permalink
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Start with the two-step... Since I've stated my intent to Dance With The Devil (see previous post), I remembered that I spotted a Programming C# book at the used book store I haunt. Since I'm cheap, I figure that's the best place to start, so I went and bought it today. We'll see if Jesse Liberty can teach me anything new on the bus (I'll likely read it on the bus to-and-from work). It's an old book (from July 2001), but should give me enough information to determine if I want to continue. ( Nov 30 2002, 10:09:47 PM ) Technology Permalink Comments [4]
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Dancing With The Devil

Well, I think Andy has convinced me to spend some time learning the Devil's tune, even if I don't dance. I think Andy convinces me because I know him as a dedicated Java developer: if he takes it seriously it behooves me to do likewise. Andy follows up with a nice "rationalization" on why Apache would also do well to pay heed. ( Nov 30 2002, 10:12:22 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [1]
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Friday November 29, 2002

Re: I'm home with Mono

I thought Andy had gotten sick again (did you read his ApacheCon adventures?), but it's worse than that, he's dancing with the devil! (Editor's note: the preceding was sarcasm). ( Nov 29 2002, 12:12:00 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Re: Extreme Persistance

Jon Tirsen and his "boss" have been trying out Prevayler. I've never tried it, so I cannot comment on the product. But from Jon's post it sounds an awful lot like (nee`) HypersonicSQL - which keeps everything in memory, writes out a "change script", and updates the disk copy periodically (much more frequently HSQL) Sounds like Pervayler is more stable though - I had to stop using HSQL for my Roller blog because it kept logging access errors (didn't dig further to find the real issue).

Jon, I'm still an O/R bigot I guess, as I haven't yet seen a better solution. Granted, I haven't seen many, so I admittedly come from a position of relative ignorance (ah, bliss). Finally, reading Marcus' (the bossman) comments - it appears he want a SQL-interface for applications "outside his realm" (such as CrystalReports) - and has concerns with "persistence versioning", both valid issues I'd say. ( Nov 29 2002, 09:01:20 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [1]
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Tuesday November 26, 2002

Say it ain't so!

A spam bot, sending ICQ messages over the ethernet in hopes of finding poor lonely men who like bad grammar. And I'll bet her name isn't even Emma. [KCG]

What will the spammers come up with next? ( Nov 26 2002, 09:02:16 AM ) News Permalink
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Saturday November 23, 2002

Goin' on a space trip

Hopefully, someday soon. ( Nov 23 2002, 10:56:54 AM ) Technology Permalink
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Friday November 22, 2002

Either my referrer log is broken or I've sunk to a new low of unpopularity. My referrer count hasn't budged all day. bummer

Later: I figured out that my DNS got screwed up somehow, so that's how come nobody was reading me, they couldn't find me! ( Nov 22 2002, 07:40:15 PM ) Entertainment Permalink
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