Busy last several days teaching a 5 day Java Programming Class Even though I’ve used the language for 7 years I still learned things by having to teach a class on it. Was a lot of fun and got positive feedback from students.
I’ve been looking for this One-year Bible reading plan from the Navigators. I remember seeing this in college and was wanting to read through the Bible this year. I like it since you can start at any day and just check off as you go. Check it out!
Wow, PHP, Apache, MySQL, and other useful stuff all prepackaged and configured for multiple platforms. I love open source.
http://www.apachefriends.org/xampp-en.html was easy to install on XP. I ran an install script and started the server. I installed OSCommerce in 5 minutes! server, database, and shopping cart platform all installed in under 10 minutes. Wow. And with PHP I can take the site back and forth b/w Linux (where my web hosting is) to my machine. And it’s not even written in Java!
Met with Calvin Austin today who is the spec lead for J2SE 1.5. Gave a presentation at work and spent time discussing the JRE and 1.5. with him A lot of interesting features in 1.5. Some like autoboxing should have been added years ago. Others like metadata look a bit dangerous but I like the ability to have something like this:
public String @remote getName() {}
The @remote is a metadata tag that could be used to automatically create web services proxy/stub code. This would save going through wizards, or implementing bizare interface classes to hook into a middleware framework. While simple, I think this will revolutionize a lot of Java.
More on Tiger at… http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/
The poll is open at https://www.greatjava.org to pick a name for the shop. Once I decide I can submit the paperwork to the state to get the name, open a business account, and get the web shop open!
Checked it out the other day. Great location, old S&P Oyster Co. building. Very little leasehold improvements. Painted walls red, put some Christian phrases on the walls, added some fun furniture. Had music, kind of 70’s style Jesus music. When you walk in you have to make a hard turn left to get to the order counter, menu was around the corner – didn’t understand that. Real niche shop. Appeals to fundamentalists but not sure appeal extends further than that. A couple of folks walked in and left while we were there. As I’ve learned though all shops need two visits to render an opinion.
Espresso was fair. Kim’s latte was oversyruped and she couldn’t finish it.
I think it’s too big. Folks at Chauvin thought so too. They’d have to have a LOT of business to support both the lease and the utilities.