Archive for November, 2007

Eclipse-based Applications Don’t Play Well With Mac OS X Leopard

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

This weekend I decided to give Leopard a shot and so far, so good. However, if you’re an Eclipse fan you will be disappointed. I should also add folks who use ANY Eclipse-based product including Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 and apparently Zend Neon as well, according to the commenter’s over at The Job of [...]

URI vs. URL Post Corrected

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Thanks to several commenter’s who pointed out several issues with in my URI vs. URL post, I have made several revisions that post to be more correct. If you happen to be linking to that post, or citing comments from it in a post of your own, you may want update it.

URI vs. URL: What’s the Difference?

Monday, November 19th, 2007

What is the difference between a URL and URI and why does it matter? This topic is confusing to some (myself included) and I thought I’d share my understanding of the two concepts. I’m hoping this post will give you a better understanding about how the two differ and why it matters to some.
Note: The [...]

Java 6 Preview IS NOT available for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

For the misinformed, there is no re-release of of the Java 6 preview on the ADC site. This “preview release 6″ merely updates Java 5. 1.5.0_13 and Java 1.4 to 1.4.2_16. Basically, it brings Java in Tiger up to he same versions that is in Leopard.

Not enough is RESTful in RestFaces

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

I just came across a quick article on The Server Side about a JSF framework called RESTFaces. My initial reaction was “oh cool, a JSF framework that might adhere to RESTful principals.” Sadly, there isn’t much more than HTTP GET support that is “RESTful” about RESTFaces. RESTFaces touts itself as being a
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