You know what annoys me about Tomcat? This:
NOTE - If you use this approach, and wish to update your application later, you must both replace the web application archive file AND delete the expanded directory that Tomcat created, and then restart Tomcat, in order to reflect your changes.
Resin gets this right, why can’t you [...]
In a recent poll, a quarter of respondents said they believed that Iraq has used chemical or biological weapons during the war. I assume they’re the same people who think that Iraq masterminded the 9/11 attack.
I know that President Bush’s decision to tar those people who would examine the reasons why we invaded Iraq in light of the facts as they emerge as revisionist historians would stick in a lot of craws, being that it’s disrespectful to historians and to people who actually care about the truth. So I was [...]
William Saletan has a breakdown of John Edwards’ speech announcing his tax plan and it seems as though Edwards is putting forth a very interesting argument about the effect that Republican fiscal shenanigans are having on our economy. I’m glad to see that Democrats are starting to poke holes in the Bush record rather than [...]
Aaron Swartz has published a cool toy on the Google Weblog that lets you preview the ads you’d have published on your site if you signed up for AdSense. Unfortunately, mine totally suck, they’re all for weblogging tools. I find that odd considering how little time I spend going meta. Talking Points Memo gets [...]
Apropos of the Rob Enderle article that I pointed to the other day, Phil Greenspun’s proposed definition of professonalism for software engineers. Clearly Enderle prefers the old school definition.
This is a good thing.
Ed Cone interviewed Rick Boucher about Orrin Hatch’s bizarre comments on dealing with pirates, and he’s safely dismissive of them. Once again I’m glad that some people decided that Boucher belonged in Washington DC.
I’ve been using Mozilla Firebird as my main browser for the past couple of weeks, and at this point there’s probably no going back to plain old Mozilla. I had still been using Mozilla as my IMAP client, though, until a couple of people clued me into the fact that Mozilla Thunderbird has alpha builds [...]
Would it be wrong to refer to the foreign fighters who have gone to Iraq to assist the insurgents in kicking out the occupying US forces as a coalition of the willing?