Monthly Archives: December 2002

Cool Use of Jython

Posted on December 31, 2002 by Joey Gibson

I just had to share this. I am working on a very large project using BEA‘s WebLogic 7. This project takes a good 10 minutes to go through an entire compile/deploy cycle. This is a real hassle when I need … Continue reading →

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My Crappy DSL service

Posted on December 30, 2002 by Joey Gibson

My DSL service has been really sucking for the past two days. I quickly blamed it on DirecTV DSL which used to be Telocity. The reason I so quickly blamed them is because they announcd on Dec. 18 that they … Continue reading →

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Googling From Blosxom

Posted on December 26, 2002 by Joey Gibson

I’ve made a few changes to my copy of Blosxom to add the little “Google” link you see at the end of this entry. I’ve seen this on other blogs here and there so I decided to add it to … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

Posted on December 26, 2002 by Joey Gibson

Well, it’s 00:29 on December 26… Christmas is officially over. I always get bummed after Christmas; the lights don’t seem as pretty and the tree seems lonely and sad. We had a great Christmas here. My son, Thomas got everything … Continue reading →

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Anyone Using Komodo?

Posted on December 23, 2002 by Joey Gibson

I’ve seen this IDE from ActiveState for a while now called Komodo. Is anyone using it? It looks pretty nice. Quite a bit nicer than it did about a year or so ago when I first saw it. Can anyone … Continue reading →

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Time To Retaliate

Posted on December 23, 2002 by Joey Gibson

The news today is that Iraq has shot down one of our unmanned Predator aircraft. Those people have been firing on our planes patrolling the no-fly zones for some time now, and we’ve only recently started really hitting back. Thankfully … Continue reading →

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My Kingdom For A Decent (Free) ISO Writer!

Posted on December 22, 2002 by Joey Gibson

I’ve decided to Linux-ify my company laptop so I downloaded all 5 ISO images or Red Hat Linux 8.0. All 3,325,001,728 bytes of it. Yes, DSL is a beautiful thing. So I’ve got these ISO images now and I need … Continue reading →

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WebWork and Maven

Posted on December 20, 2002 by Joey Gibson

You know how you’ve never heard of something and then over a short period of time you see or hear references to that thing you’ve never heard of and you start to get the feeling that it’s something you should … Continue reading →

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Changing Blogs

Posted on December 20, 2002 by Joey Gibson

I’m switching from my Blogger.com-based blog to using this extremely neat tool called Blosxom. Instead of having to go to blogger.com in a browser and use their tools, Blosxom works off text files in a simple directory hierarchy. It’s 144 … Continue reading →

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