It’s times like this that I realized how lucky and spoiled we are. The air conditioning in our house went south again for the 4th time in about a year. Luckily it isn’t super hot yet, but 85 degrees and at least as much humidity is no picnic to sleep in when you’re used to a nice dry 72 :)
Category Archives: Personal
WordPress is the new Movable Type
Well let’s see how this goes. I like the themes created by the WP community, and the fact that you can manage other “static” pages like a Wiki. So I’m dumping cgi-based MT in favor of PHP-based WordPress. More to come…
Korean text resources in Java
I just spent a day or two wrestling with text resources sent to us by a Korean affiliate. They are bits of data that must be displayed via the browser in Korean. The process I use is outlined in the remainder of this post.
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Technical Favorites
While I was putting together my best of the web page, I realized that a lot of the sites that came to mind were purely technical, and of very little use to the motley assortment of folks who might peruse my site. Those links needed to go somewhere, so I’ve added a first draft of my Technical Favorites. Enjoy!
My Best of the Web
Every now and then I mention a site that I think everyone knows about, only to be greeted with a blank stare. Being the internet junkie that I am, I have compiled a mental list of sites over the years that I revisit continuously.
Occaisonally a new URL makes the list, or one drops off, but for the most part the list stays the same. Someone recently asked me to catalog them, so I did. I humbly give you Breddy’s Links.
BBQ Bash
Marissa and I want to thank everyone for coming and making our first BBQ a fun time (for us and I hope everyone who came!) If you’re interested, take a look at the photo album. Sorry, I deleted all the X-rated ones (they were mostly of Josh anyway).
JNDI and the Tomcat Deployer
Tomcat’s Deployer can be a blessing and/or a curse. The documtation is lacking and some configurations don’t play nice with WAR files that are installed or deployed with the deployer tasks.
The particular issue I’m addressing here is the use of JNDI resources. If you expect to have environment-agnositc JNDI resources in a context fragment and still use the deployer, you are out of luck. But there is a solution.
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Kick FireFox Up a Notch
Brian Livingston has published a great article on WindowsSecrets.com outlining some really great tweaks to the already joyous FireFox browser.
My biggest gripe about the product has been the long (relative to IE) load times. I incorrectly attributed this to the fact that IE is part and parcel of Windows. This may be part of the reason IE loads super quick, but another reason is that it is prefetched. Turns out you can set any program to prefetch, including FireFox. For me, it made a noticeable difference. Thanks, Brian!