vetula: chris kelley’s blog

A community built around renewing a TV show?

Java profiling with HAT, The Java Heap Analysis Tool

Here’s a list of changes I had to make when upgrading from Struts template to tiles.

Baylor University is becoming as embarrassing to its (liberal and/or gay) alumni as Doonesbury’s Walden.

How did I get unit testing to work?

I’ve decided to become one of the micropatrons of Jason Kottke, who has quit his job to do kottke.org as a full-time job.

Asynchronous communications in web development

While testing out the new Mozilla XForms beta, I needed some samples.

What’s the next step for the Democratic Party? Dan Savage has an interesting proposal:
We can secede emotionally, however, by turning our backs on the heartland. We can focus on our issues, our urban issues, and promote our shared urban values. We can create a new identity politics, one that transcends class, race, sexual orientation, and […]

I saw a story about this Lancet report on Iraqi civilian casualties on BBC World on Friday, and was shocked at the number - 100,000! This should be a core issue of the US Presidential campaign - not dithering over how many munitions have been lost. Also, here’s a similar article from the Guardian.. […]

People Projects and Patterns features links to very useful patterns, plus interesting discussions on the Business Object.

Yet another test of blogging tool - this time, ecto. Pretty sweet - it allows mulitple categories per posting, and has wysiwyg editing. Also can add images to a post. $17.95.

Jon Stewart sheds a very interesting light on what he believes is wrong with political news coverage during his appearance on CNN’s Crossfire.

Operation Truth is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization whose goal is simple and straightforward: to support our troops and spread the truth about what conditions are like in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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Current Electoral Vote Predictor 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 […]