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Wednesday December 18, 2002

Wikis at Work I sold the team on the idea of using a Wiki for a good project collaboration tool. I wanted to use SnipSnap because it looks good, but I noticed on it's Feature Matrix that there is no file upload. Shucks - that might be a show stopper. I'll probably end up using Very Quick Wiki. Posted in Java at Dec 18 2002, 03:25:20 PM MST 5 Comments

Snowing like the dickens It was a 9-inch day at Vail today, and it's snowing all night tonight. Damnit - I've gotten two calls from friends already that are going up tomorrow. Those bastards! Posted in General at Dec 18 2002, 03:07:12 PM MST 1 Comment

The First Day The first day at the new job was good. The three developers on the team (myself included) had a 3 hour meeting getting our arms around the project and figuring out how to do everything. It's an interesting approach we're using - where an Excel speadsheet is e-mailed to a mailbox. It's then picked up, processed, and if it meets certain criteria, it's entered into an Oracle database. Then we're going to use a web front-end and Struts to grab the data and render it to the user so they can correct it. I wonder if I can use the Struts Validator on the way out? It'll be interesting to find out.

The only unfortunate part of the day was the machine I found myself in front of. It's a Dell GX110, and has 128MB RAM and a 733MHz processor. Ughhh, try running Ant, Eclipse and Tomcat at the same time on that sucker! I faired better than the other developer though - he got an NT 4 box - at least mine's 2000! They said they'd try to get us better machines, but I hope to just use the ol' Powerbook. The dual 21" monitors is helping to reduce the pain. Posted in General at Dec 18 2002, 02:59:57 PM MST Add a Comment

POI Article This article from Javaworld shows how easy it is to use POI. Cool - I'm sold! Posted in Java at Dec 18 2002, 02:05:16 AM MST 1 Comment

Erik Hatcher's Blog I saw it a couple weeks ago, but now Erik appears to be updating it regularly. Just in case you didn't know - you can find it here. Erik is an Ant Guru and has written many cool Struts extensions (i.e. LookupDispatchAction, XDoclet integration). He's made my life a lot easier with his Ant wisdom and Struts goodies - thanks Erik. Posted in Java at Dec 18 2002, 01:17:30 AM MST 1 Comment