I was looking at the Wicket framework, that recently graduated to an official Apache project. Reading some Wicket blogs I came across this entry, saying Scala is the new Java. And with these 12 steps you can judge for yourself.
Mind you, Scala is not created by another group of ignorant self-indulged hackers that know it better. The man giving Java generics and responsible for the current javac is on the team, so don’t be too ignorant on this new language….
When reading this I was wondering whether I was reading a weblog written by a grown-up. Who in the right mind cares whether Mr Burleson gets a high Google rank just by telling non-sense. Hey, most of the high-ranked websites are just that. Or is it that his Google rank is higher than yours? So? Ask yourself: what does a high Google rank mean? Does it mean he is smarter? No, it means he will get more hits. By who? Ever wondered who would click these links?
Right. I wouldn’t. Mr Burleson’s website or any comment he makes is just plain air to me. But of course I’m only an Oracle professional (started with Oracle 4 on 5 1/4″ floppy-disks on an AT286, now tell me again what version did you start with?) and I know that Mr Burleson is somebody to not listen to.
No real Oracle professional would listen to Mr Burleson or take what he says for granted (pun intended). Just the kids that are looking for The Oracle and got lost clicking on Mr Burlesons links. We all know that. Now how come you still make a fuss about it? Doug? You’d better keep to your promise: I expect some real technical stuff from you this weekend, so get your *ss (you seem to like words with stars in it) in gear!
Here’s another try with Flex Builder 3 beta. It shows my RSS feed in a datagrid, and when selecting one of the rows, the corresponding blog-entry will be show on the right. When clicking in on the title in the datagrid, the blog-entry will be opened in the current window, basically replacing the Flex application. This was just to test a custom itemrenderer (LinkButton) inside a datagrid. The date-column can be sorted, but not in the default Flex way (string-based), but via Actionscripting it sorts by date.
Basically what I created was a very simple RSS reader, with this exception: it only reads my weblog 😉
The right part makes use of an IFrame to render the HTML output. Read here how to do that.
Well, not really an application, as you can see:
The slider changes the text font-size, and the grid displays my weblog-feed. To be able to do that, you need to have a crossdomain.xml in the root of the webserver, so it only works for domains you can control.
Do you like the new style? I’m not completely with it yet. There are certain parts I like a lot, but there is a lot not to like too.
Crap. Already back to the old theme!
…to version 2.2.1. So if things screw up, you won’t read this!
Hope to see you later!
Update: seems to have worked. King-Text needed to be moved out of the widgets directory, and needed require_once widgets.php to be commented out.
Early this year, I skipped a week’s work because I could barely walk (without tears rolling down my cheeks) because of a terrible pain in my back (no, not *ss). Backache, is that a proper word? After a week of rest and painkillers, things went back to normal again.
About three or four weeks ago I started having backaches again. So I started taking the painkillers (ibuprofen) and muscle relaxers (naproxen) again. They seemed to help. A little. Until last week, when the pain really came back like earlier this year. So I figured: now’s a good time to see a doctor. I know, I know, I should have visited a doctor earlier.
Of course, my doctor was on vacation. We moved, but did not change our doctor yet, so I tried calling the nearest doctor here. Typical. On vacation too. So I called the nearest fysiotherapist. On vacation. Why not. I took me quite some time to get somebody not on vacation and willing to examine me within a reasonable short period of time. And waiting for one of them to call me back for an appointment, I was called by the first one I tried. Happily, the nearest one. They called on Monday, and I could come by later that afternoon. Great.
Diagnosis is not so great: sciatica, or in other words a nerve that’s being pressed on. Probably caused by a dislocated intervertrebral disc. The dislocation is common with people doing heavy labour, like construction workers. But also with people doing a lot of work sitting on a chair. Like me. I’m almost connected to my chair, and I must admit, I don’t always sit in the proper position.
Even worse, when when working at the clients office, not all of them give you a proper chair and desk that allows a proper posture.
So here I am, for the time being confined to being at home. Today I tried driving to work (darn, a musquito just bit me in one of my fingers) but that was not a good idea. I had to take some painkillers and muscle-relaxers when I got home and then allowed myself a little horizontal time…
Sitting down is difficult, standing up and going to sit down most of the time very painful, and lying down is best done for an hour at most (when not sleeping at night).
Advice on how to use the computer when lying down is appreciated. Computer is up-here, while the bed is down-there. Laptop has a lousy screen (1024×768 max res, but what do you expect from a Lenovo) so I’d rather not work on that thing too long. I don’t want eye-pain as well 😉
To still allow wp-hashcash to do it’s automagical version check, but to keep your site running, don’t change the value to something very large (999999999 as I suggested), but keep it in the range of a couple of days. The original period (86400) equals one day, so change it to something like 432000. That would be 5 days. Looking at feifei’s site, and their ping-graph, 5 days should be more than enough to re-establish a connection.
If your WordPress blog gives you a failure about curl_init and you are absolutely sure you have curl support enabled in PHP, and you are using wp-hashcash, than change the version check period.
Look for a line beginning with “if(!array($update) || empty($update[‘last’]) …
In that line is a figure “86400”. Change that to a very large number, like 999999999. That would be enough for feifei to get their site back up.