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Tuesday March 11, 2003

The CommuniCam is in my possession! I received the CommuniCam today and it's not as bad as I expected. The pictures have horrible resolution when viewing them on the phone, but don't appear half bad on a computer screen. Granted, they definitely look like they're taken with a cheap digital camera, but that is what it is. I'm looking forward to using it tomorrow night, but I probably won't be able to post the pictures in real time. It's at Qwest in downtown Denver, and cell coverage sucks there. I know because Julie used to work in that building.

Now I just have to figure out how to upgrade my phone's firmware so I can get the zoom capability. I read it's possible on AT&T's forums last week, but can't seem to find the link. Posted in The Web at Mar 11 2003, 08:41:56 PM MST 2 Comments

Struts from Scratch More goodness from the struts-user list this afternoon. In reality, I don't know why I'm posting these as I'm not planning on reading them - maybe in hopes that some of you will find it interesting. Could be that I worked until 3:30 last night and got up again at 7. Red Bull at lunch and I feel like I got a full night's sleep!

Struts from Scratch covers a Struts install from ground zero.

It provides detailed install and configuration steps for a beginning Struts application. It comes with a basic sample application and basic Ant build script (available for download from http://www.strutskickstart.com).

Posted in Java at Mar 11 2003, 12:42:39 PM MST 1 Comment

[ANNOUNCE] Struttin' With Struts beta Rick Reumann has put together a nice website with tutorials for learning Struts. From the struts-user mailing list:

I created a web site that walks new Struts users step by step through the development of three VERY simple web applications in three lessons. Each lesson adds a few more features so that they build upon each other yet each stands alone such that if you follow the steps in any lesson you'll have built a very basic application regardless of which lesson you start with.

I created these because there seemed to be lacking some more recent "walk through" Struts tutorials geared toward the very new Struts developer. I think real newbies will find them especially useful, but then again I could be way wrong:)

I'm considering the site a "beta" because I'm sure there will be some mistakes. If anyone sees something I'm doing in a lesson that is way off (or a very bad practice) please let me know. Some of the stuff I know could be done in a more "best practice" way, but for the sake of trying to also keep the lessons small and simple some ideas weren't included (ie- I didn't use a constants interface for my forward definitions).

If anyone wants to contribute, reword, or add anything please let me know. The site is there to help others. I got really lazy in a lot of places and didn't say much about certain things that I would have liked to. Hopefully over time the site will improve.

Struttin' with Struts:

http://www.reumann.net/do/struts/main

-- Rick

Thanks Rick - looks very cool! I like the design too - nice work! Posted in Java at Mar 11 2003, 08:50:58 AM MST Add a Comment