Russell Beattie’s Post EJB post is great. I’m in a situation now where I write a ton of Java, but have nearly no experience with EJB. In fact, the only time I’ve ever used them was a project where I migrated an implementation that used EJB to one that did without them. I really need to get up to speed on the EJB world, but it seems like a lot of pain for the payoff that they provide. ...
The court has filed its final ruling in the Microsoft case. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s here. And here’s a brief summary, courtesy of CNN/Money. It’s not looking like the judge dropped the hammer on them, unfortunately.
Andy Hertzfeld of OSAF has produced a prototype of the “interpersonal information manager” they’re working on. The application will be called Chandler, but the prototype, written in Python, is called Vista.
OnJava.com: Jakarta Struts: Seven Lessons from the Trenches. I like Struts.
A French woman is looking at a felony charge for disrobing in anger while being searched at an airport in Evansville, Indiana.
On Tuesday, Howard J Bashman noted on his blog a small error in a footnote of a Fifth Circuit opinion. It just so happens that the judge who wrote the opinion is a reader of How Appealing, and immediately corrected the error after reading about it there. This astounds me.
The CIA World Factbook 2002 was published sometime recently.
It looks like AOL has finally gotten around to hooking up AIM and ICQ – or at least looking into it. Those of us who use Trillian or other generic tools have been able to use both services at once (albeit with separate logins) for quite some time, but full integration would be very nice indeed. Of course, what would be really great is an open standard that provides full interoperability among any service willing to participate, but that seems like a lost dream these days. ...
I found a link to Michael J Radwin’s PHPcon presentation about Yahoo’s move from a proprietary page scripting language to Yahoo in Anil’s list of links. This is the first really in depth behind the scenes look at how things work behind the scenes at Yahoo. I always wonder how things work at the really, really big Web sites, so the presentation is quite a treat. Also interesting are the reasons why they chose PHP over various other languages. They rejected Perl in part for the reasons why I don’t use it as much any more, and they rejected Java/JSP for the simple reason that the threads implementation on FreeBSD is poor. ...
Due to incompetence on the part of whoever runs Iraq’s state ISP, Wired News was able to check out the mailbox for a publicly available email address on the Iraqi government’s official Web site. It’s pretty interesting to see what disturbed individuals from around the world feel it necessary to say to Saddam Hussein. Kind of makes you wonder what sorts of things are sent to [email protected] …