The Cave

Everything Windows Driver Development Handy place for those who though Sysinternals was pretty good, but too high level

Damn. First notable change, the EULA is very different: I just took a peek at the EULA.TXT included in a fresh download (PsTools .zip file) vs. a copy that came with the same download a couple months ago (file dated Jan 11 2006), and it’s *completely* changed. The new version is a “free for personal [...]

Part 1, 2, and 3. Are surrogate primary keys good, bad or merely another tool? “All fanatics must die.” There is no substitute for good judgement. No matter how many MBAs you have available…

Heh.

ABNF for RFC 2068 (HTTP 1.1).

Send email with attachments in Python

The article, “Is Java EE 5 lightweight enough?“, touches on the key points (with good links) including Java’s complexity is its own worst enemy. Given what I saw and heard at JavaOne, a few top folks at Sun ‘get it’, but many (most?) don’t. Not yet. If ever. And it seems equally mixed as you [...]

I concur. Invest in people first, not tools. 

Hmm.

Gavin makes a good point regarding The Lie of Simplicity.

Interesting.

One snippet (albeit perhaps the most interesting, if not the most insightful – if you’ve worked with them) from the TSS “Future of Enterprise Java” panel.

An old one by Larry Niven, but still hilarious.

All is not well in…well.

“0 tests, 0 assertions, *but* 0 failures, 0 errors“, referring to the number of test cases for web services standardization: Ant has more tests than the entire specification suite of SOAP, WS-A, WS-RF, even WSDL (I think). And that is just a build tool, not the strategic glue for a planet. Unsettling is one way [...]

I’m checking out some client-side blogging tools. WordPress’ web interface is nice, but a little pokey at some things and not always convenient. Ideally, there’s a good client-side (desktop) tool that… Fully supports WordPress (my server-side blog tool) Runs on Windows XP and 2003 (my usual desktops) Is ‘snappy’ (beauty is in the eye of [...]

From the site: Messages is a free framework to make internationalization easier for Java applications. It supports locales for threads and bundles can be associated with different packages. This allows the usage of different bundles for different parts of the application like plugins, installer or logging which probably should always be in the language of [...]