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Read More...The New and Improved Blog of Lee Grey nee JCranky
Archive for the ‘Soft Where It Hurts’ Category
Mac leaves the top off the toothpaste
By Lee on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | No Comments
I ‘m one of those Windows-to-Mac guys. The transition was pretty painless, for the most part, since I’m a geek. And, for the most part, I’m happy with my MacBook Pro. But it’s got these irritating habits that I think are the technological equivalent of leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube. No Home, End, [...]
Read More...org.apache.bsf.BSFException: unable to load language
By Lee on Friday, September 5th, 2008 | No Comments
I’m jazzed about creating a JRuby DSL for message manipulation in SonicMQ/Sonic ESB. No time to go into the details right now, but I ran into a problem that I couldn’t find an answer for. Maybe this will help the next poor soul… I was able to run this service on my laptop without any [...]
Read More...Using Xara Xtreme to create a web site
By Lee on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | No Comments
Thanks to Xara Xtreme, I’ve just created what is by far the most attractive web site I’ve ever created in my life. Unfortunately, however, it has a couple of problems. First of all, in order to inject PayPal buttons into the site, I had to do the export to .HTML and then edit the .html [...]
Read More...One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in code. Ever.
By Lee on Friday, August 24th, 2007 | No Comments
I went to the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) meeting on Tuesday night. The speaker was Jeff Brown of Object Computing, and the topic was Groovy. I’ve been dabbling with Ruby, Groovy, and JRuby, for quite some time now. (Among other things, I’ve created Ruby and Groovy services for Sonic ESB.) I’ve never been a [...]
Read More...What an accomplishment!
By Lee on Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | No Comments
Who ever would have thought that moving a blog could be such a major endeavor?! For about three years, I’ve been running my blog on Pebble, a Java-based web app, running in Tomcat. For some reason, though, Pebble sort of lost its mind many months ago. I’ve been unable to post, or I could post [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Yet Another Web Framework Shoot-Out
By Lee on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 | No Comments
This is a really well done, albeit long, screencast comparing JSP, Rails, Zope (Plone), Turbo Gears, Django, and J2EE. It is entertaining, smart, and fun. It's also a great example of quality presentation techniques. And the final score is almost definitely going to surprise you. It took me over five months to get around to [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] NoMethodError in Users#list from Streamlined
By Lee on Monday, August 14th, 2006 | No Comments
I've been playing with Streamlined today, and, despite the never-restart-the-server impression you get from the movie, there are times when you get errors as you add belongs_to, has_many, and relationships to your model and streamlined files. I pulled my hair out for far too long and was ready to chalk it up to buggy, prerelease [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Jon Udell mentioned my software!
By Lee on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 | No Comments
I've always been a big fan of Jon Udell's InfoWorld column, but now I have an even bigger reason to appreciate Jon! It's also amazing to see what influence some people have. This small mention from Jon has brought me a significant stream of visitors! Thanks, Jon! Hopefully I can return the favor with this [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] My first chat with God
By Lee on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 | No Comments
Me: Wow, are you really Him? God: I'm glad you're impressed. I don't know whether or not I am Him. I am a computer.. Really. Me: Darn. God: Gosh. Me: Well, you've really spoiled the illusion. God: How about that. What makes you think I have it? Me: Have what? God: I have a great [...]
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