Since Groovy can use the standard Java libraries, Groovy can be used to learn these libraries. It’s easy to modify a script and run it, and see what the change does. There are differences to the real Java language of course.
Investigate whether Groovy will aid in learning real Java, or is it just another reason to procrastinate?
On my birthday and the day Microsoft announces Windows Vista and Office 2007, I feel obliged to point you here. It’s the least I can do. Please leave a comment if you can think of a reason (a software package, or something else) that keeps you from moving away from Windows (or Office).
When you do some work for too long, or you do work you like too much, the work will change you. You will do things in your personal life as you would at work. Or you start liking other things or other people. This guy actually has “design disease”. Follow this link to see what I’m talking about. I hope he does not find a cure, since I like what he does.
…but only if you have a Home-Edition or MediaCenter-Edition. So if you’ve paid the extra bucks for the Pro Edition (which I did) you get less support. What’s that all about? A so called “companies have the cash so they should pay for the support of home users” motto? What about: a company has some several hunderd (if not more) installations of Windows XP, you know what: we’ll give them free support until 2014, just like the Home-users. Of course not: nobody would believe that to be a viable marketing strategy.
I think Microsoft marketing personnel is the best. Worth their weight in gold. No, double that. But still they are the reason why Microsoft sucks.
Update: I suck. MS extended the support on Home/MCE to match the support of Pro. So I guess that’s okay 😉
See this press-release.
All sorts of sites cannot be reached at the moment. Not sure what’s going on. Sun’s site is there, so is Oracle’s, but Google.com shows this beauty in my browser:
Well, it’s here. Need to fix some things still, one of them is a decent logo. And I want have breadcrumbs.
Switching to FastCGI for Hiki turned out to be no viable option, since the Apache logs still shows errors, now from mod_fastcgi. So, the wiki is disabled, until I have found and installed something I like. At work we use MediaWiki, so perhaps I’ll just run that. Other wiki’s seem too immature, lack proper security-features, run their own webserver, or have just too many features that it’s not a wiki anymore.
My Hiki installation is here. But sometimes when I go there, I get a server-error as response. Like: site cannot be found, or something. Refreshing it sometimes works, but sometimes I need to refresh a couple of times to finally get the wiki page. It’s not the server or the disk being busy, since other pages work fine. My best guess was that it would be the Apache -> Ruby integration. Where else then the Apache-logs to look for that? And the errorlog proves I’m right: a big stackdump or whatever it is with references to mod_ruby. So I’ll have to either switch to FastCGI or have to look for a non-Ruby wiki (of which there are so many that you’d think that everybody on this planet wrote one).
My WordPress theme BinaryBlue has a feature to show the comments in a paged way, so the serverload would be less than when displaying all comments everytime. Looking at my Google sitemap stats, I saw that most URLs (if not all) that resulted in a 404 contained “comment-page-1”.
So I viewed the weblog, opened an entry with comments and looked at all the links on that page. The URLs pointing to the individual comments all have something like “comment-page-1” in them. But clicking on them will give you a 404! So I went back to the administration panel and went into the BinaryBlue options, since that’s the theme I’m using (WordPress does not have paged-comments by default, you have to install a plugin for that). I disabled the AJAX-paged-comments, and voila….it works. No more dead-links.
Browsing around, I found some info about software to create a photoblog. Most weblogsoftware can include pictures, but with photoblogsoftware it’s the other way around: the posts can include text.
One of the photoblogs I’ve found perticularly interesting is this one, the sidekick for the main blog: zusjezusje.nl, a photoblog about his two daughters. WOW! This is one talented photographer!! And judging by his watch, he (or someone close to him) has connections with Fortis (bank)… 😉