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Safari, Fun with struts, recommended books
SafariIf you do a lot of software development and get a lot of books from O'Reilly I recommend Safari. StrutsDecided to use struts to do my project because it works and I like the architecture.I've spent the last week or so getting my head round how
Overcoming the stupids
I had an attack of the stupids. I was wrapping a form served by a different server into a portlet and passing what it had been sent back. It had about 15 arguments and I had dutifully created one argument in my portlet for each thing that could be se
Permission and Change
If you hurt someone else you give them permission to hurt you back because you make hurting people OK. This is quite tricky to understand. It's one of the ways that karma works. Karma just means "action", like Newton's law:For every action
More fun with Oracle Java Portlets
The manual is incredibly opaque. I'm beginning to realise why paper manuals weren't so bad, it was easier to work through things.I can't work out how to pass parameters into a porltet or default them in from the page (so you can pass them between po
Letter to "spiked online"
This is in response to this article:I always find myself a bit worried when people use words like progress and enlightenment like they're in some sense automatic.Another example is when people use "evolve" to mean things getting better, whe
Search and replace on a stream using 1.4 JDK CharSequence from an InputBuffer
My friend Roger informs me that this is a single library call in PHP. I once did this by using jtidy so I could get the html tags using an XML DOM, but that was very silly.Been tearing my hair out - I want to be able to take the output from a URL and
Firefox
I decided to try using Mozilla Firefox as my browser of choice. After I got the Java and Flash plug-ins installed it works fine. I like it a lot, particularly the tabbed interface, where you aren't constantly going back to favorites over and over aga