This setting catered to my twisted sense of humor. A picture had to be taken.

This morning I upgraded to Pebble 1.4 from the 1.4.1 beta release. Although 1.4.1 was quite stable, the new release came with several additional features. All in all, the upgrade was fairly painless. I did have to edit a couple jsp files to add links and update my theme's css file to configure the color scheme, but these activities took only a few minutes.

If you are currently searching for blog software, at least give pebble a look. Its well worth the 5 minutes it takes to setup. Kudos to Simon Brown!

Or your money back!

Ive been meaning to evaluate Hibernate for some time now. Actually, my goal is to evaluate and create sample apps using several persistence frameworks(JDO and Entity Bean 2 CMP as well). Anyway, back to Hibernate. Rather than trying countless combinations to get hibernate incorporated into a web app, I thought a hello world or example project would be a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, I didn't see anything quite like that @ hibernate.org. Since JBoss is pro hibernate and Im a JBoss advocate, I thought a look there was in order. Like most things that have to do with JBoss, JBoss.org seemed to be the last place id find useful documentation. For some reason I can never find decent documentation from the Jboss folks. Anyone else feel that way? Maybe its just me, but thats another story. Anyway, I proceeded to google my query and stumbled upon a blog entry by Ed Hand. It was just what the doctor ordered. A clean and concise, step by step example of getting a single page working. A well documented hello world if you will. So here's to you, Mr Well Documented Hibernate WebApp Creator <spoken in the same tone as the Real Men of Genius Commercials>

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Posted by Mike Shoemaker on February 18, 2004 3:16:05 AM CST #

I stumbled upon this a while back and thought it was pretty funny. Just got around to posting it.

Norman Richards wrote
I have to agree with Norman on this one. I too stumbled upon MBNA's recent upgrade while attempting to pay my bill online. The first thought that came to my mind, was how dare they alienate non IE/Netscape browsers. Paying a bill shouldn't require specialized functionality that only IE/Netscape can provide. For crying out loud, its an https connection where a few parameters of data go back and forth. Anyway, my next thought was, I wonder if they even attempted to test their site with Safari. I, like Norman, have the Safari debug menu enabled and once I told Safari to masquerade itself as Netscape all was well.

The real question is why in the world would they restrict certain browsers from rendering the site. Id be okay if they had disclaimers saying, "best viewed using internet exploder version X". At least then they are not writing code to alienate me. They are merely stating that it may not function properly using another browser. The key word being may. If they aren't sure that it won't work, don't tell me it won't. I did send in a nastygram stating my position. Of course, I have not heard back.

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Posted by Mike Shoemaker on February 5, 2004 10:32:01 PM CST #

Warning this is somewhat addicting. My furthest is 1202.

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Posted by Mike Shoemaker on February 2, 2004 9:54:44 PM CST #