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Oct 29, 2003

EJB is not hard, O/R mapping is

I weary of people constantly complaining about how hard EJB is and then coming up with their own thing like Hibernate or JDO or whatever. Any technology with similar features as EJB will be complicated. But it just happens that EJB can be made pretty easy if you have some…

Sam Pullara in spullara

Nov 23, 2003

More Groovy Goodness

I submitted a new feature today, using classic technology from bash/perl/php/etc I bring you an easier way to build templates in Groovy.

Plenty of languages have them, so I just had to put it in. GroovyServlets are now even easier to write. Here is an example that I…

Ben Edwards in alt text

Jul 10, 2003

Are blogs the CB radio of our generation

It should come as no surprise that I am very interested in how web logging and the web in general will shape the future. Yesterday’s post at Will Femia’s Weblog at MSNBC was about weblogs as potentially being the CB Radio of the late 90’s and today. While I…

Pito Salas in Pito’s Blog

Oct 26, 2003

Google to the rescue

Google to the rescue: Hey, Google has a new feature. In the search box, type, for example:

define: blog

And Google will give you a read of what the hive mind of the internet says the term means. Pretty cool.

Ben Edwards in alt text

May 2, 2003

Nice tool

Anil pointed out one of the slicker web applications I have seen in a while, BrowserCam takes screenshots of any URL you give it in any of the many browser/platform configurations they support (which is a lot). Now you can see what your site looks like in Safari 1.0b on Mac, Konqueror 3.0.5 on Linux, and…

Sam Pullara in spullara

Apr 28, 2003

Jazz Fest in New Orleans

The Jazz was good and the food was great!

We are just flying back from the first week of Jazz Fest in New Orleans. Last year we did the last week instead of the first but decided it was too crowded. My personal favorite of the festival was Al Jarerreau. He is…

Pito Salas in Pito’s Blog

Oct 20, 2003

Pop!Tech — Ideas and links.

Pop!Tech is a conference focused on Technology And Society (my summary.) It is one of my all time favorite ones. David Weinberger has extensively blogged it, so I won’t do so again.

Jim Adler in Jim Adler

Dec 16, 2003

NIST Symposium

Last week, I presented at the NIST Symposium on Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems. Here’s the abstract:

A crisis of confidence is looming in the election industry. What is election confidence and how can we quantify it? How do traditional machine-counted paper…