Archive: December 12, 2003
Over the past week I've posted about how I've been helping my friend set up a Movable Type weblog. Now that his site's all up and running, using Mark Pilgrim's cruft-free URLs and doing the rest of his site with Movable Type as well (also using cruft-free URLs), I figured it's time to give him some linkage.
So, check his site out: AmazinAsian.com. It's still using the default-looking Movable Type templates, but that'll change soon.
ug's projects: 100 prisoners and a light bulb. "Prisoner's dilemma" problems like this always fascinate me. Plus, the code he used to explore the problem is in... Python 
See, this is a perfect candidate for a "blogmark"... nothing much to say except "seems neat", and "Open Office rules". Anyway, via Martin, Using OpenOffice Draw to author RDF.
I'll say this: OpenOffice's open-stardard XML file formats are a huge boon for unintended uses just like this. I'll also mention that the code he used for this is written in Python, and OpenOffice also happens to have great scriptability with Python. Python looks more attractive all the time.
Via Erik, via Pratik Patel, Beyond MVC: A New Look at the Servlet Infrastructure.
This article is the first of two that examine in depth the origins of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern and its misapplication to servlet framework architectures. The purpose of this first piece is threefold. First, it attempts to provide an accurate description of the problems brought about by MVC in servlet middleware. Second, it suggests techniques and strategies for coming up with a new design, one better suited to the needs of servlet infrastructure developers. Third, it offers an example of a completely new, nonderivative pattern we might use moving forward. The second article backs up my assertions by introducing and exploring a reference implementation of the new design.
Ultimately, my goal with these two articles is to convince the servlet middleware community once and for all to put the dark days of MVC behind us and to lay the groundwork for completely new, nonderivative servlet middleware architectures that better address our common needs. Please bear with me; I wouldn't write a piece about MVC in the servlet tier unless I believed it was a funeral dirge.
In the next piece in this series, I'll back up my assertions with actual code and introduce the Shocks Servlet Framework, a full implementation of the design I've outlined here. I'll go over the architecture of the framework, discuss how it evolved conceptually, and show how it addresses each of the five challenges for frameworks Dr. Reenskaug laid out over thirty years ago.
Pratik also links to PicoContainer, which I should take a look at.
Woo, I just received my Firefly DVD in the mail. Now if I only had a few free days to sit down and watch everything.
Aaron Watters, original author of Gadfly, now has a new similar program out, called xsdb.
The xsdb package is an open source database implementation implemented in Python and hosted on SourceForge. The xsdb package provides fundamental concurrent database functionality with concurrency control and recovery.
Ian has some interesting thoughts on CMS and static publishing.
Bruce Lawson has a lot of interesting commentary about the death of Wrox, and points out their relationship with a new publishing company, Packt. I've written about the death of Wrox before.
Unfortunately, Bruce has no permalinks 
Update: (Apr 2, 04) He finally created more permanent permalinks. The post can be found here: http://brucelawson.co.uk/archive0401.htm#pp
Reason Online: Gun Control’s Twisted Outcome - "Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S."
I just had someone from England chiding me on my gun rights stance, and I mentioned that crime in her country has only gone up since guns were banned.
One more thing: Clayton Cramer has an entire weblog dedicated to chronicling civilian defensive uses of guns.
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