Monthly Archives: November 2005

links for 2005-11-30

Posted on November 30, 2005 by rob

Struts WSAD Tutorial Straightfoward Struts tutorial (tags: wsad struts java j2ee)

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links for 2005-11-25

Posted on November 25, 2005 by rob

PBS | I, Cringely . November 17, 2005 – Google-Mart Nice speculation on Google’s dark fiber plans. (tags: google) Introduction to the Spring Framework (tags: spring) XStream – About XStream (tags: java xml)

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MQJMS1000

Posted on November 22, 2005 by rob

I recently ran into this error: IBM – MQJMS1000: Failed to create JMS message and MQJMS2007: failed to send message to MQ queue . The IBM support page says this Another common cause of MQJMS1000 is that the data has … Continue reading →

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Scientist and Religion

Posted on November 21, 2005 by rob

This entry by Adam Bosworth started me thinking about the scientist/technologist that speaks to religion. I found two very ironic counter examples to Bosworth’s thinking on “reason”, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Only recently did I learn from Dr. Dale … Continue reading →

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Understanding Google Base

Posted on November 21, 2005 by rob

If you want to get an insider’s understanding of the why behind base.google.com, listen to Adam Bosworth discuss Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services at the MySQL Users Conference. The short is relational databases don’t scale to the … Continue reading →

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Posted on November 21, 2005 by rob

From /., How To Write Unmaintainable Code My favorite technique, Use Plural Forms From Other Languages A VMS script kept track of the “statii” returned from various “Vaxen”. Esperanto , Klingon and Hobbitese qualify as languages for these purposes. For … Continue reading →

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Public Schools Should Raise Your Children

Posted on November 19, 2005 by rob

That’s according to the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit judges Donald P. Lay, Stephen Reinhardt, and Sidney R. Thomas in this ruling. We agree [with the previous ruling], and hold that there is no fundamental right of … Continue reading →

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links for 2005-11-18

Posted on November 18, 2005 by rob

Ajax for Java developers: Ajax with Direct Web Remoting DWR is an engine that exposes methods of server-side Java objects to JavaScript code. Effectively, with DWR, you can eliminate all of the machinery of the Ajax request-response cycle from your … Continue reading →

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links for 2005-11-16

Posted on November 16, 2005 by rob

IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 1.0 The official release of IBM’s free and open source J2EE app server that’s based on Apache Geronimo. (tags: j2ee java geronimo ibm)

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JMS and WebSphere MQ

Posted on November 10, 2005 by rob

Recently, it was a real pain to write a JMS client to a WebSphere MQ 6 server. The problem was that by default, the MQ implementation of the ConnectionFactory underlying JMS uses the “bindings” settings, which is the MQ term … Continue reading →

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