EJB & MVC: Xmas observations for the obsessive compulsive

EJB: Big and Scary
I am scared of Enterprise Java Beans. They sound a bit butch for a cheesey Domino charlie like me. So it is often a relief to read:

Fowler's first law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!

But then you have a quick surf and you find:

Let's start out with the reasons that most people think are important for deciding between EJB and Java classes, but are actually not important at all. ... read more

Perhaps they are not scary after all Veronica.

Model View Controller Considered Harmful!
Lordy. The IBM stuff is packed to the gills with MVC stuff. Struts and more Struts and then you read:

"the origins of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern and its misapplication to servlet framework architectures".

As Shaggy said "heeeey Scoob!"

That was a bit dull mate, spotted anything else
Yeah ... There's that saying "see Naples and die". Well, I think I should have been "See this gig and die". Greatest ever 'soul' show - ain't that the truth sister!

DB2: Humbug

It was the night before Christmas,
And all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse .....

No hang on. There a bloke drinking port and doing an on-line DB2 tutorial. Holy Jesus what a saddo! Quick call the Ghost of Xmas past!

It's not a bad little tutorial but you occasionally stumble upon lines like:

• Advisors are part of the IBM autonomic computing effort, which aims to make software and hardware more SMART (self-managing and resource tuning)!


• Remember, practice makes perfect!


• lets hear it for the DB2 tools

As Engelbert Humperdinck said "Please release me let me go."

DOMINO: A summary of the Roadmap

XMAS: Roy of the Rovers

Here's what I would like for Xmas. Turns out that Toffs are doing replica shirts for Roy of the Rovers' team Melchester Rovers.

I think I am getting some Hi-Karate deoderant though :-(

BLOGGING: Comments feature bombshell

As you may know I am unable to use any of the popular Domino based blogging templates. This is not for any technical reason or lack of budget. Quite simply, if I were to have use Lotusscript out of work hours I would get a nose bleed and fall in a ditch.

Given these restrictions I have chosen to publish this blog via Blogger. Blogger is nothing short of fab and has recently been purchased by Google. Blogger does have limitations however: no RSS feed and no comments are two. There is talk of Blogger-Pro re-emerging but for now us blogger posters have to go elsewhere.

This blog is mainly for my vain and pointless ejaculations, so I was unsure wether to add a comments feature. My main concern was people posting things about cheap Cambodian Viagra or links to their amputee fetish forum. Well, I stumbled accross Squawkbox and had a change of heart. So from now on under each link is a comments link. This will give you, dear reader, the ability to comment at length on the important topics that I unearth.

"Nice feature Monkey-Programmer-Boy. But if a tree falls in an empty Blog does it make a sound?"