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Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:51:20 GMT

Here is my personal blog.. latest article about IRAQ. Who really is to blame? You may be surprised!! "IRAQ: Blame it on the Rain" http://ipodworldnews.blogspot.com/2007/11/iraq-blame-it-on-rain.html

Java Web Development Can Be Much Easier Then It Is Now

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:00:29 GMT

One of most respectful people in software loves JSF. But me not. Here's a discussion on interview with Gavin King: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39214 Gavin King is author of most widely used Java persistence framework. Enough to say about Gavin to state he has some respect. Unfortunately this time he provided mostly subjective and questionable arguments. Here are my subjective thoughts. I wrote a bit about JSF before: http://talkinghub.com/message/153.html#message What I felt trying to build this app with JSF is simply that I can be more productive. Web development should be extremely easy comparing to GUI development. Why? Simply because almost all we are working with is just text! And all the stuff is (cross-platform) standard defined years ago! No platform-dependent line-by-line or pixel-by-pixel drawing, no system-dependent user and other events, and who knows what else stuff to deal with in the world of GUI clients. This is why we have so little GUI frameworks. This is why we have so many web frameworks. Because the web development is generally easier then GUI client development. So while working with JSF I was unproductive even comparing to Swing development. Yes I used uncommon nowhere recommended approach using JSF in my app. I was using it with HTML templates, without XML configs, without additional JavaBean layer, and with high number of custom components. My development was going a lot slower then the same thing could be using Swing. Both MyFaces and Sun's JSF RI source code quality is big opportunity for improvement. MyFaces JSF implementation worked buggy with my HTML templates so I ended up with tricky combination of 3rd party MyFaces custom component library and Sun's reference JSF implementation. Yeah, weird! "Something is wrong" I started to think. "We have cross-platform, standard, very simple text technology (HTTP) comparing to Swing - so why I am so slow comparing to Swing?" So I decided to move forward. I just throw off the entire UI layer I wrote at that time except my HTML templates. I looked at Tapestry but lot of XML configs and long learning curve scared me away. How many pages that book on Tapestry does have? Just no time for it. I started with plain servlets and for just one day I had my UI powered by my own small library. No XML configs, no additional layers, no "expression language". I fed it with my HTML templates I already had and it started working. And I felt much comfortable with what I wrote. Do you know this nice feeling when you are confident in what has been made by your own hands? When you know it will work as you desire, and you can modify it as you desire, and nothing stops you and you can do just everything you would need. And it works as you see. Now development is so extremely simple that I can change HTML List to HTML Table or HTML DIV with subDivs without touching Java code at all, simply by modifying the template. Another side effect I got was execution speed - requests started to process a lot faster. Good for the future. Interesting note. I looked at Wicket framework recently. Looks pretty similar to what I did by myself. By the way - thanks to JSF and other today's web frameworks - this knowledge helped me a lot to build my UI layer fast. Do you have experience using JSF with HTML templates? Denis Krukovsky. - 1 reply

Yugma for You!

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:22:31 GMT

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Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:19:54 GMT

Old Beach House

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:18:30 GMT

Warm picture shot by my Marie during our spring trip to Crimea, Ukraine. - 1 reply

RE: How does one write a web-application?

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:48:59 GMT

Berlin! If you want to know how I wrote Blogoforum then take a look at How to Write Software journal I posted early days of this site. - 1 reply

Web2Newswire.com

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:16:37 GMT

Hello, I would like to introduce you to Web2Newswire.com. It is a new user driven social content site where you can submit news, stories about your websites, businesses, blogs, and startups or anything Web 2.0. This is a especially good for startups and websites with less exposure. It is equally good for well established sites and businesses. Web2newswire is a new way you can promote your site, businesses, blogs, and startups. You get more exposure without spending a dime! The more site members talk about your site, the more exposure you get. The service is 100% free. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or comments. I can be reached me at info@web2newswire.com. Please tell a friend today. Thank you for your time. Regards, Nicola Louise http://www.Web2Newswire.com "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"

Facebook Insider Pitch on Web 2.0

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:58:41 GMT

I don't know about moving faster than speed of light but I found great post about web 2.0 and social networks thru Stephen's blog: A Night with Facebook: Mike Murphy's pitch for social networking. Mike talks about how sharing is important. Do you know if Stephen's talk is available on the internet? - 1 reply

RE: Tags are what you think they are

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:42:09 GMT

Thanks, I realize and really like that. Somewhere I blinked and the web grew up. I recently had the good fortune to listen to Stephen Abram, VP of Innovation at SirsiDynix, http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/ speak about the Web 2.0, blogforums, wikis, content provision, folksonomies, media streaming, podcasting...Gave the audience many things to think about, but what completely blew me away was his mention that physisicts have pushed light in reverse throughout their experiments. Backward moving light travels faster than the speed of light. - 1 reply

Tags are what you think they are

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:44:11 GMT

Hi LKenyon, and thanks for the post! Tags are pretty free to use, it is you and other people together who give meanings to posts using tags. Or something like that. If you work at a library than you will likely find interesting classification features of this site. - 1 reply

How does one write a web-application?

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:56:51 GMT

How does one write a web-application? I mention hard-work. Hard work, long hours; insane kind of 3am all-nighters for weeks, months at a time. http://newspiritcompany.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-does-one-write-popular-web_5275.html I wrote a little blog about it. Also stay tuned for botlist. - 1 reply

Digg Tagging?

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:17:35 GMT

The Mu Life author asked me to comment on his "The Role of Tags in Social Bookmarking" article. In the article, Muhammad talks about Digg requiring users to put stories into predefined categories, and suggests that tag-based categorization would work better. What can I say? As a big fan of tagging*, I completely agree! Here are few examples for you to though about. Let's suppose I have an article about say the design of new Mac OS. Or the article is about next-generation iPod design. What's the correct place of a story of such kind? There are at least three candidate categories, all are under "Technology": "Apple", "Design", and "Industry News", also probably "Software" for new OS story, and "Hardware" for a new gadget. I feel a bit lost. Why I am required to chose one category when my story is ok for three? Am I supposed to start a research on what the correct category is? When I'll make my choice, how about users who browse other categories and may miss my story? That's what the tagging is for. To get around these, let the user to tag the story as "apple", "technology", "design", "news", "software" or whatever. Give the user freedom to decide what categories to have and what information structure should be. I always missed tagging in Digg. Browsing its categories I saw stories on wide areas of subjects. While being interested in some particular topic (say "tagging") I didn't knew what category to look in. Should I browse all Industry News, Programming, and Software? del.icio.us, from the other side, has become my first starting point for a research on a particular topic. If I'm looking for must-have Firefox plugins I go to http://del.icio.us/popular/firefox , looking for startup partners advices I go to http://del.icio.us/popular/equity , and looking for digg-enabling a web site I go to - yes, http://del.icio.us/popular/digg . A few words to people who point on some limitations of tag-based categorization systems. Here on Blogoforum, I experiment with tags a lot. And hey, the system is a rich field for experiments. You can do a lot of tricks with tags. It was believed tag-based navigation is flat - I managed to introduce hierarchical tag browsing. Even more - using tags, the system can create a hierarchical categories-like information tree (see Forum Groups are in development for initial steps in this direction). Tag-based classification is very promising and an area open for innovations. * As you can see, I'm so big fan of tagging that I've developed a whole new tag-based website (called Blogoforum).

Reddit Was Acquired

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:33:40 GMT

Did you heard? Reddit was acquired. Congratulations guys, good job. First rumored number ($65M) is more than del.icio.us was bought for. [Update] Liz Gannes on GigaOM tells that guys from Reddig have worked with acquirer company before on very reddit-similar site. I wonder which terms they are agreed to, and wasn't they afraid of things like competition and disclosing the technology.

Tagging Survey

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:57:38 GMT

I found an interesting tagging survey (thanks Tagsonomy). What's important there? Number of participants was as low as 24. But still. Most people aren't big fans of tagcloud. Hmm...

Startup Founders: Fair Split

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:33:53 GMT

I collected a couple of articles which are of great help with determining a fair share split between startup founders. Here they are: Splitting the Pie: Founding Team Equity Splits - interesting suggestion about dynamic split here Startup Founders: Should You Divide Equity Equally? together with comments The Founders' Pie Calculator - great plan for fair split EQUITY: Dividing the Pie [Update] Here is another link where people discuss fair equity share (you'll have to register to read that).

RE: Big Bang - Common Misconceptions by Jon Voisey

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:33:19 GMT

And I thought there may have been a few rational Xians around. Will try to remember next time. - 1 reply

RE: Big Bang - Common Misconceptions by Jon Voisey

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:09:21 GMT

The Big Bang, for information in real science didn't ever occur as the so-called experts have spouted in their false science. The real science is that the universe uses a system of two huge energy bubbles, which is factually seen in NASA pictures of the Bubble Nebula (and which is factually one of two charged energy bubbles in a galaxy location (Milky Way this time), and the oppositely cahrged bubbles then streak through space by the magnetic attraction between them, and hit head-on together. These collisions are seen in endless Hubble and other pictures where the people viewing the collisions are spouting their slop-theories about all kinds of other junk. Junk that quantum mechanics garbage is making up eneough dimensions and other slop to make their so-called theories stick to any walls. The bubble collisions result in two, opposite explosions taht blast ultra-hot material out into space for new galaxies and other objects. Neutron stars are formed at the collision point, as are stars, planets and moons inside galaxies. And, the accretion slop spouted for star and planet formation is all total garbage, simply because the Little Bangs decribed briefly here are the way every single object in the universe is made instead of the farcical Big Bang. This is fact, and I also know EXACTLY the real science as to how "matter" in the universe is scientifically made from absolutely nothing. And, for information, the Einstein total slop of E=mc^2 is proven to be factually wrong by science and math, so the E=mc^2 slop is NOT involved or true at all. - 1 reply

Blogoforum on MoMB

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:58:15 GMT

Blogoforum on MoMB: http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/beta/blogoforum

Forum Future Discussion

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:06:49 GMT

Take a look at this insightful discussion on what improvements to add to online forum software. Good idea is - to let member to "bookmark" messages and use this info to show popular pages. Something similar is brewing inside Blogoforum's HQ. [typo fixed] - 2 replies

Big Bang - Common Misconceptions by Jon Voisey

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:45:01 GMT

Jon Voisey - Astronomy major - posted The Big Bang - Common Misconceptions - interesting astronomy article understandable by non-scientists. Jon tells us that the Big Bang wasn't actually a bang and that Big Bang theory can live in peace with belief in God. - 1 reply