Archive for August, 2004

The O’Franken Factor

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

The O’Franken Factor: I stumbled upon the O’Franken Factor website today and listened to about 30 min.s of liberal talk radio via Air America, that new liberal talk radio station. O’Franken Factor was not on, but I did catch “Morning Sedition.” Strange - these guys were about as annoying as regular talk radio, and it […]

mozdev.org - mozile: index

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

It’s been a while since I’ve looked at Content Management System user interfaces. This morning I was really impressed by the progress of Mozile, an in-place web page editor. No textarea boxes - just edit within the portion of the page identified for editing. They still need to implement a few things (such as cut […]

History of Ancient Bulgaria

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

Vassil Karloukovski has a website on ancient Bulgarian history and culture which is quite a prodigious work! Especially interesting is his transcription of Robert Lee Wolff’s The ‘Second Bulgarian Empire.’ Its Origin and History to 1204, which provides an enlightening description of the relationship between Bulgaria and the churches in Rome and Constantinople.

Papa Luna, Samarquand, and Ciracassians

Saturday, August 7th, 2004

Over lunch, Lachko and I watched part of a movie called Papa Luna, which is a very charming movie set in middle-80’s (still Soviet) Uzbekistan. Lachko got a kick seeing some of the Soviet culture that he remembered as a kid in Bulgaria, such as the Militzia (police) and the compulsary Russian language. Noting the […]

iTunes Music Store RSS Generator

Friday, August 6th, 2004

iTunes Music Store RSS Generator

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Many-to-many example using Hibernate

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Code….

A Hibernate tip for many-to-many relationships

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

I found a very useful explanation why the bridge table for a many-to-many relationship was not saving when I did an insert. The Inside explanation of inverse=true points out that
“The side having inverse=”false” (default value) has this responsibility (and will create the appropriate SQL query - insert, update or delete). Changes made to the […]

Test from clevercactus pro

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Testing out clevercactus
pro. This client app integrates e-mail, calendar, and rss
reader/writer.