Where Are The Wise Men?

I’m using The Spring Framework to build a new application. Spring is cool — it can do a lot and there is a lot to learn about it. One cool thing I just figured out it logging injection. One thing that took me a while to figure out is to get Spring [...]

Jeff Atwood said something that I have been saying for years: Programming is, almost by definition, continuously learning: your entire career will be one long, unbroken string of learning one new bit of technology after another. Every ten years the software development field reinvents itself, and it’s our job to keep up.That’s why I love [...]

It all started with this post from SJS on how to make Emacs get some TextMate behaviors.  I added my own changes to enter “)” after entering “(”.  Then SJS emailed me privately to say that Emacs has had this all along — you just had to enable it.And it works great, too.  Slicker than [...]

Dawn Eden has a great post about her coming to faith, which ended her struggle with depression six months later. It is also note worthy how a book (well, a Chesterton book) got her to see the delight in every day things.  And that real rebellion against the world should be hope, not darkness.Powered by ScribeFire.

We happen to live close by to many restaurants, one of those being Sizzler.  We don’t eat at Sizzler very often.  In fact, we only go when have good coupons from the Sunday paper and if there is nothing to eat in the house.  When Gina and I talk about it if that’s really something that we want [...]

A great blog post on someone reading Chesterton for the first time.  Of course, he chose Orothdoxy which is one of his better books, but not totally accessible.  The reviewer didn’t quite understand Chesterton’s reliance on the mystic aspect of Christianity, but he did give it a good read and had deep understanding.  For those [...]

Mitchell Baker posted on Firefox’s effort to implement ECMAscript 4 (which is really JavaScript with another name) and she said:JavaScript is a fundamental element of the web. It’s fundamental in human interaction with the web. Updating JavaScript’s capabilities updates the power of the web itself.I agree with her. You may dismiss JavaScript as a toy; [...]

Gina had some plans this morning, so it was just Leah and I. Oh, and Copper, the dog we have been taking care of while her owners are on vacation. I told Leah that I had a surprise for her. I took her and Copper in the van, ran some errands, and we [...]

If you know me very well, you know I’m a Unix geek. I cannot work efficiently without a Unix shell so when I’m in Windows I install Cygwin as soon as I can and use Cygwin tools over native Windows tools as often as I can. That is how far my Unix Shell [...]