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Weaver’s Loom

  • EJB or not JB? That is the question (sort of) …

    I recently read a post on LinkedIn on the WAFUG group by Andrew Hedges: Frameworks or libraries? “Frameworks are larger abstractions than libraries. Abstractions leak, cost performance and take up mental resources.” … http://tr.im/20fm Is the whole framework craze overkill for most projects? At what point does it make sense to use a framework over…

  • Content that’s too dynamic …

    Recently I’ve been noticing that ad content is being served up much more dynamically than I’d expect. When I’m looking at the menu on TiVO, or surfing Facebook, there are always little ads displayed that don’t immediately catch my attention. In fact most of the time, the ad doesn’t even register until I’ve clicked something…

  • They don’t shoot Eagles do They ?

    When I was a boy, we lived in south eastern Alaska in the small chain of islands north of Ketchikan, first on the island of Wrangell, then the island of Petersburg. This was one of the most amazing places to be as a boy, the perfect place to learn about nature, and beauty.In Petersburg, we…

  • Using LinkedIn to generate a PDF “resume

    I ran across a post on one of my LinkedIn groups from a fellow member named Mike Smith, the text of this post is on his blog at http://dominoconsultant.blogspot.com/2008/12/export-pdf-resume-from-linkedin-without.html Basically the trick is to make sure your profile on LinkedIn is up to date with all of your best resume information in the career section,…

  • A nod to my Dad …

    My dad was a newspaper reporter and editor, and for a time in my youth (and his too, I suppose), he was an editor of a couple of small papers in Alaska. During that period, as the editor, he wrote an editorial column that he called “Weaver’s Loom” where he wrote stories and posted his…

  • Moving my VolunteerCake to my Mac …

    I have been running my development for VolunteerCake with a database on my Windows box which sits in my office with my Mac. I went to meet some people at a coffee shop, and realized that I couldn’t show them the app running on my MacBook because I was no longer on the same subnet…

  • Negotiations over (or are they?) …

    I recently had an experience that reminded me that you truly can negotiate anything. I got a call from a buddy telling me that he his manager was looking for a contractor to replace somebody who wasn’t performing to the level they needed in a business analyst type of position. The person they were replacing…

  • More web neworking …

    I was talking with the recruiter who got me my job at Quovera (formerly Millenia Vision) about why she has the text “{LION}” after her name. She explained to me that it’s an acronym that is for people who practice “open” networking. I did some searching, and found this site at http://www.themetanetwork/ which appears to…

  • Lose focus, lose the race …

    One of the most common mistakes I’ve seen businesses make over the years is to lose focus on what made them successful in the first place. Over the last year or so I’ve become more disappointed with Plaxo. They seem to have forgotten that their key differentiation in the market was the way that they…

  • CakePHP and RESTful Web Services – debug problems

    I ran into an odd problem with the way Cake is coded that tripped me up for a couple of days. Because I hate it when things don’t work the way I think they should, I spent way more time debugging this than anybody should. I got my basic RESTful service working for the VolunteerCake…