BurningbirdOh I’m in a marvelously good mood today, not the least of which is that the weather is perfect for a gentle walk in the woods, I and my code are one, and my life is become full of wonderous possibilities. The first of my metadata plugins is almost finished and it is a pure […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doug from Creative Karma sent me a link he found at Stefan Tilkov to a writing that’s been making the rounds of weblogging: Maciej Ceglowski’s Dabblers and Blowhards. In it Maciej takes on Paul Graham and his popular book and series titled, “Hackers and Painters”, and does so in a manner both pointed and funny. […]
The site is having problems due to a heightened number of trackback and comment spam (in conjunction with one of the weblogs associated with the Canadian Ad scandal being hosted by my hosting service — but I think today’s problems were purely spam related). update My host, Hosting Matters, has got the problem under control…and is moving […]
Today was a really beautiful day and I took a break from coding to walk around the Botanical Gardens to see if all the bulbs were up. It’s now the peak blossom season, and the gardens are full of blooms, including what looked to be at least 15 varieties of daffodils. It was busy today […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received an O’Reilly email update today about a new edition of Head First into Java just hitting the streets. I had reviewed the Head Into series a while back, and particularly liked the EJB book. Seeing the book notice today reminded me of the discussion on the O’Reilly ETech […]