The Economist had a good article last week about the death of the CEO as rock star phenomenon, which was really overdue. Next thing you know, we’ll actually see executive pay brought more in line with the pay of the people who actually do the real work. Don’t get me wrong, there are executives out there who are doing a great job, but I know for certain that the people who get the headlines and the people who deserve them are distinct groups with very little overlap.
Shawn Bayern has written a brief introduction to the upcoming JSP Standard Tag Library for theserverside.com. I like anything that enables me to avoid having to write code for myself. In some ways, it looks like the JSTL is going to make JSP a lot more like Cold Fusion (except with all of the power of Java in the background). That’s a good thing.
Tony Judt has written perhaps the definitive article on the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, The Road to Nowhere.
This is what the NRA might refer to as good return on investment.
For that miniscule subset of my readers that use Emacs, JDEE, and Ant, here’s a pointer to an Ant task that builds a JDEE project file from your build.xml. It’s offered by i3SP.