Archive for January, 2009

I’m not sure she’d appreciate that…

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Yesterday I received a spam-email that was advertising… something: Subject: Treat your lady like a gentleman I’m not sure that’s such a great idea.

Contrary to popular belief…

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

“Contrary to popular belief, it’s possible to write Javaâ„¢Server Faces (JSF) applications without knowing every little detail of how the technology works.” This quote from Richard Hightower, in a series of articles explaining every little detail of how the technology works, which I am reading because, contrary to popular belief, it is not possible to […]

Programming with JSF: it’s not just an onion

Monday, January 5th, 2009

So here I am, about a month into my foray into the world of Java web programming. For this project I am using Java Server Faces (JSF) with the new “standard” (ahem) toolkit of “visual design” web controls called Woodstock. Yes, Woodstock. Let’s just forget for a second that what they’ve done here is take […]