Developing Multilingual Web Applications Using JavaServer Pages Technology.
A useful reference paper with regards to using the JSTL "fmt" tags. I've just started using the setBundle and message actions for the tag set and although I known I have more learning to do (duh!), it's a good start. Soon I'll have a .properties file from all my text string messages. Which can be Spell Checked!!Via Techdirt:Make Fun Of A Professor, Lose Your Computer :
USATODAY.com - Student who spoofed prof online sues after cops threaten charges
here' the Colorado story the broke the news : Student squeals over seizure, College satirist suing Greeley police after computer confiscated
So Professor Peake, did the problem go away? Or are you just a rock and roll fascist? (Yes I've just passed the Godwin's Law line
A quick google search turned up : this UNC directory page, with his email and phone number, and a article that about a earlier issue Earlier this year, the coalition backed a student who filed a complaint with U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights against Professor Junius Peake, charging that he badgered her in his office. Last week, the Department of Education dismissed the complaint as groundless.
The web site can be found here : http://www.geocities.com/thehowlingpig/ and another newpaper article about the issue us here
InfoWorld: The new enterprise portal: January 09, 2004: By Eric Knorr: Applications: "The browser-based portal is fast becoming the enterprise UI and the nexus for a new breed of integration and app dev".
So have the technologies matured enough for this to happen? Can you mix and match (integrate) back-ends system? java and .net? I don't think the standards are there, just yet. which means you still have to standardize on a vendor. And pray your older back ends can be pasted in, at some limited level. And of course there are still huge organizational issues, as always the harder part.
to follow up on this and this this
further Globe and Mails articles :
Primus service nips at telcos' heels gives more details and background.
Primus is the first to move but others, such as large cable television companies like Shaw Communications Inc., are poised to introduce their own service by next year....Numerous observers have said that local phone prices, set by the federal regulator, are already too low in Canada, discouraging competition. But Primus Canada has undercut those rates by at least 15 per cent, and as much as a third when options such as voice mail and call display are included....Until now, Sprint Canada Inc. was the only national competitor to the former monopolies in the local market.... the company resells traditional service rather than taking a new approach. It has had modest success at best, attracting about 200,000 customers -- a fraction of Telus's and Bell's almost 12 million connections.
and another background article Net phones just a small device away. Small hook-up box needed but some say they likely won't replace fixed lines
Cell phones--the next dinosaur : concerning Vonage's deal to ebed its software on chips from Texas Instruments.. allowing any broadband-connected device can hook into the Vonage network. more details here
The metaphysics of VoIP. regarding whether VoIP.. should be classified as an "information service" or a "telecommunications service" under existing federal or state regulatory policies. If VoIP falls under telecommunications, then it is subject to public-utility economic regulation. If it is an information service, then it is not." Wathout who wins this regulatory/political battle. the phone lobby is a big player, but they are NOT all on the same side.
Here is more background: Broadband top issue in 2004, U.S. regulator says
Manageability - Open Source Web Crawlers Written in Java. Evil, pure Evil.
Apache Jakarta Tomcat 4 and 5: Configuration and Usage Tutorial. I'm thinknig this with be a great help. or not.
Via boingboing Via richinternetapps Via steal from the best
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As can be seen from the above images, the technoloy has also been applied to children, in attempts to bring school bullying to a historic end. Rumours that Toshiba have in fact just announced a tiny hard drive, are being dismissed as ludicrous.
Full story carried over at BBC Technology News...
via Russell Beattie Flaming Lips album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
And I like it too! But more to the point (as if), the Warner Brother Record site and link is amazing in that within a flash player you can actually listen to the tracks on the album. It would be difficult, but not impossible, to intercept the music on its way to me speaker and make a mp3, but WBR has not let that stop them from letting the average music fan from learning about their clients work. WBR = Not clueless! I believe you Yoshimi! Wicked Stuff. I think there may be FlammingLips CD (or DVD) in the near future.Via the Globe and Mail : Primus Canada launches national Internet phone service. This happened a lot faster than I expected. And it looks like it's available now at $CAN 20 / month for the basic package. And I noticed this in Coverage :
Customers can get a new phone number or migrate their existing phone number to TalkBroadband service in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver. However, any High Speed Internet user in Canada can take advantage of TalkBroadband by selecting a new number from one of the markets above.
truly the "Death of Distance". So what does area code (or country code) mean now?
This is just the beginning of a turf war that's going to blur the boundaries between Local phone, Long Distance, Cell phone, ISP's, Cable, Satellite, and Wireless companies. They are all Communication Infrastructure Provides (CIP's ?), and with IP everywhere the differences that kept them from competing are gone (or going). Pick the one that suits you based on price, service or features.
followup here
BoingBoing put me on to UoT's Massive Change - Radio and their archive of "provocative thinkers across disciplines" including the Bruce Sterling December 2, 2003 interview which I'm currently listening to (the interview covers many things in his "Tomorrow Now" book). A lot of good stuff. I expect I'll be playing more of these interviews.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox lists Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution .
All are fairly common sense. None of them are that hard to do. None of them would cost much, if anything, it practiced (and likely save money). Most of them should be standard policy for any non-Neolithic organization. Sadly few company teach good infomation habits. My picks for the practices with the most bang (effect) for the buck (effort): Don't use "reply to all", Write informative subject lines, Don't circulate internal email to all employees.
