Archive for October, 2002
Thursday, October 31st, 2002
Scoop
Scoop is yet another portal/CMS system. This one is open source (”free”), written in Perl, and appears to user MySQL as its back end.
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source by jmiller
Thursday, October 31st, 2002
NEW T-SQL technique! (or new to me). The @@IDENTITY function has historically been flaky and susceptible to outside interference. You must use it immediately after you do an insert if you want it to have the correct value, but even then, it can be clobbered by triggers that may have run in the meantime. The [...]
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Thursday, October 31st, 2002
joRiSS?
Interesting site from a layout perspective. Not sure about the content yet, but Adam Curry mentioned it on his channels page as a tool for creating–what else–channels (in RSS, of course).
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion, Knowledge Management by jmiller
Thursday, October 31st, 2002
Bye Adam, and thanks
I find Adam Curry’s weblog highly irrelevant to anything in my life, but he does use some interesting techniques (like a special channels page) on his blog site. I just don’t know who he is or why I should care. But thanks for the ideas, Adam.
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion, Knowledge Management by jmiller
Thursday, October 31st, 2002
Thomas Jefferson. “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
How true!
No Comments » - Posted in The Muse by jmiller
Thursday, October 31st, 2002
Another J2EE vs .NET Performance Comparison [Slashdot]
There's a really good whitepaper by the The Middleware Company that details their benchmarking and the performance issues. Slashdot has the details, but I have already downloaded and printed the whitepaper if you are interested.
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Thursday, October 31st, 2002
David Russell. “We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.” [Quotes of the Day]
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Monday, October 28th, 2002
Open Source Adventure
As I continue on my open source adventure, I’ve been trying to configure a Linux server as a mail server for multiple domains. I haven’t spent a ton of time on it, and I’m definitely a Linux server configuration newbie. But I get by with a little help from my friends and a little good [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source, Tech Tips by jmiller
Monday, October 28th, 2002
SJ Mercury: Tools coming for connecting information. Dan Gillmor. But we need more sophisticated methods for gathering, massaging and making connections among all the pieces of information that enter our lives each day — everything from e-mail to Web pages to phone numbers and more. So when I see useful tools, I pay attention. [Tomalak's [...]
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Monday, October 28th, 2002
James Duncan Davidson: I’m sitting in Dave Thomas’ talk on Pragmatic Programming and he’s making the point that a developer’s career and their growth is up to them. I entirely agree. And I think it’s true in life in general.
Unfortunately, there was no further explanation about the speakers thoughts. I would have liked some nugget [...]
