The weblog of Steve Ivy, going since 1999 in one form or another. Still something of a CMS junkie.
XVI Edition.
☀️ Earliest posts come first.
James Duncan Davidson (Author of tomcat and ant) on Enterprise Java Beans: > [via James Duncan Davidson ]Mike Clark was just muttering about EJBs and how they can lead you over the brink of complexity. And he asks: “Where did we go wrong?” (link) I’ve worked some with EJBs, and they are some of the most complex component code I’ve seen. Oy.
Brent has released a new NetNewsWire beta.
This release supports ETag and Last-Modified headers, dramatically reducing bandwidth consumption for sites that support these headers. Other changes are listed on the change notes page. (link)
Something we’re learning about this year in Arizona: Winter lawns. Apparently the only thing that can survive the Arizona summer is a particularly hearty strain of Bermuda grass, which goes dormant and brown once the weather cools off. So the practice here is, right about now, to plant a winter lawn of rye grass that stays nice and soft and green until about April, when the weather heats up fries it all. I’m researching winter lawns now; I mowed the lawn as short as possible the other day, and I’m about to go de-thatch and put down gypsum to treat the soil. Then we plant.
