Arley: “Chuck Hardin has a saying, that either people are complaining that there is no documentation or people are complaining that no one reads the documentation.”

Also of note from yesterday: fotes of Kinman’s vacation in Indianapolis.

Yesterday, blogger was down, and by coincidence Scripting.com pointed out an awesome little article that points out the conflict between the Internet’s inherent un-reliability vs. business’s conception that everything must be rock-solid: The Carpetbaggers Go Home.

(Pardon the chopyness of the sentence above…I haven’t finished my coffee yet.)

I finally got around to browsing the Jakarta Commons packages and they all look swell. Basically, they’ve extracted all the most used classes into distinct sub-projects. For example, the BeanUtils package, orginally from Struts (I think), extracts out the 4, in my opinion, classes that are most usable in your apps. Once again, a good reason to love Jakarta ;>

In other news…

Mr. Sensitive on Patrol

A lady says she likes seeing deers, calling them “momies and kids”, then the guy she’s talking to said, “Mommy would be a doe, and the kid would be a faun”, then she says, “Ooo, OK,” then he says, “yup…shot a few of those in my days.”

Props to Arley for huntin’ this gem down…

Even though our man Arley has a point about Java being verbose, I sure am getting to like JAXP: sure, it’s just a bunch of abstract classes and interfaces that require an implementation, but it’s nice to work in the “cleaner” realm of an API rather than a specific parser.

Don’t forget to give this year’s hottest programming book to everyone you know…
(Thanks to Jay Link)

Stop Me Before I Eat Myself to Death

Last night the company had their Christmas party, and now there’s mucho sandwhich snacks downstairs. I’ve only been here 20 minutes — ain’t even finished my cup of coffee — and I’m working on my forth.