Archive for July, 2004

Don’t be angry with the Philippines

Monday, July 26th, 2004

Last week’s news of the Filipinos in Iraq pulling out of their mission early to save one of their own from being beheaded pissed a lot of Americans off. No one wants to see an ally cave in to the “evil doers,” but there’s more than one side to this story. I ran [...]

Down Under

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I hate long flights. It’s even worse when you’re flying coach. I’m currently headed to Sydney for a four day workshop my team is hosting. I used to love traveling to far away places for work. When I started at PeopleSoft back in 1997, my first consulting assignment was a six [...]

Recursive Form Submits?

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

I’ve been pounding my head trying to figure out a problem with one of our systems at work today. The problem was that we were running out of threads on our WebLogic 8.1 app server pretty fast. Last night I made a change to a login form that inconspicuously caused the problem. [...]

Bloglines v2.0

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

Several months ago, I ranted about RSS aggregators and how bulky they were and how I like to read the content of the sites I follow on the original site. Well, about a month ago, I started to play around with SharpReader. I used SharpReader religiously for a few weeks until I decided [...]