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ignatz is currently certified at Journeyer level.

Name: C. Baker
Member since: 2001-08-12 06:52:37
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Notes: Ignatz refers to the mouse that throws bricks in the old Krazy Kat comics. I am a big fan of Krazy Kat. I'm a musician who is interested in the use of computers as a tool for facilitating people getting together to make music. (Not just listening, but performing) I'm also a programmer working on several projects that involve databases, multilingual content and API's that slurp it. Capabilities is on interest of late.

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8 Apr 2005 »

Note to self: To get the XML Security API to work with the Axis Happiness Page, place the Xerces and Xanlan jars in the CATALINA_HOME\common\endorsed directory.

3 Apr 2005 »

AJAX XMLHttpRequest Helper Class

Just put up a finished XMLHttpRequest JavaScript class to simplify working with the things. It's based upon stuff glommed from a lot of sources. The main thing is that I wanted to create an OO wrapper around the code and clean up how it can be called.

USAGE:

var http = new AjaxRequest()
http.setTarget("/ping.php")
http.setForm(new URLBuilder("word", "ping"))
var synchronousGet = http.get()
var synchronousPost = http.post()
// Asynchronous
http.get(closureHere) 
http.post(closureHere)

See also: ViewCVS, tar and test page.

14 Jan 2002 »

Walked off the job today early. Just had to get out! Caused a major firestorm when people found out that I was using CVS. "Oh dear! That is not authorised. You must use PVCS." "Ummm how do I do that." "Oh, your manager has not authorized you to have a copy of PVCS installed on your computer so you cannot use it." So, how to I maintain version control?" "You must use PVCS. We will all get in trouble if they find out that we had CVS installed on the web server." When one developer heard that someone had CVS dozens of other ones started asking around. "CVS? CVS? We can use CVS? Where can I get it???" Had to nip that in the bud. Probably end up writing a script in Perl to do something like it. Poor man's retarded CVS.

I don't understand how Fortune 500 companies survive. Back to dice.com.

It's been a while. Finally got the family moved out to HicksVille.

13 Nov 2001 »

Interesting: as a way to make money Sleepycat charges for prebuilt binaries as a "support contract". Does that actually work as a revenue stream?

7 Nov 2001 »

trying out argoUML with java web start. This is so kewl!

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