Tag Archives: Inkscape

Taking the Java Plunge – release 1.0 reached

Posted on 03-Nov-2005

Well I made it. It was early in the weekend that the code was working, but its taken a couple more days of struggle to get it so I could put it into production. Learning how to get tomcat to authorize the users is hell to debug when it doesn’t seem to do what the book says it should.

Looking back at what I have done surprises me. It was a simple application (just 5 web pages) but the number of separate technologies that I had to learn (or in some cases perfect) were many. Here is a list (on top of Debian Unstable/Stable)

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Taking the JAVA plunge – into the last mile

Posted on 24-Oct-2005

After some hard work at getting my ideas together and then some marathon debugging sessions, my application is almost working. It has taken me a lot longer than I envisioned – for two real reasons.

Firstly, for a long time I had an approximate idea of what screens and what workflow I wanted in the application but I was finding it difficult to make it concrete. When I didn’t have a clear picture of what I was aiming at, my development didn’t proceed.

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