Self Portrait

 

<Late night BBC2 Arts program>
Nigel: "Well he has missed the websphere space ship, but he still has 3 men left".
Germaine: "I see what you are saying but most of the green defence blocks have been destroyed so I still feel it represents despair."
Nigel: "Agreed, but the highest score is 3520 so someone else has managed to succeed, so in that sense there is some element of hope."
Germaine: "Certainly, but with no credit left, I  can't help feeling the overall message is melancholy"
</Late night BBC2 Arts program>

 

Working At Home Part 19: The Search for Spock

Working at home, doing things with Websphere portal, looking out the window, looking in the fridge, making tea, making coffee, looking out the window, installing things, checking the news, checking email, checking ebay, playing the ukulele, changing cds, writing some programs, sitting in underwear, changing shoes, eating cheese, eating apples, talking to george, talking to Mrs Spuggy, looking out the window, singing, talking like Shelock Holmes, doing things with Websphere portal, looking at the wallpaper, it's the end of the world as we know it, lenny bruce, lester bangs, cheesecake, it's a man's world, I shot a man in reno just to watch him die, drinking coke, thinking about starting smoking, woof woof there's a wasp in here!

Excel as a Development Environment

So when I press the submit button ....

It posts the form to my controller servlet.
which looks for the correct command object to handle the request.
the command object creates a formObject which validates the form and
returns a valueObject by calling billions of setters on the billions of member variables.
the busines facade object grabs the corect Data Access object and passes the value object thru.
the Data access Object fills a preparedStatement by calling billions of getters on the value object and saves the record in the datbase.

sheesh.

So how do you manage all the variables, settters and getters no to mention the create table scripts? Good old fashioned excel of course. Who needs expensive tools or XLST?

Local School Sports Day Race Results 2004

Local School Dad's 80 yard dash results 2004.

1. Athletic Dad.
2. Teenage father.
3. No more than 25 year old dad.
4. Dressed in a suit with suprising burst of speed dad.
5. Hippie dad in sandles.
6. Sweaty red faced dad I thought I'd easily beat.
7. Monkey Programmer Boy Dad dignity intact.
8. Fat no-good-looser-kids-will-never-live-it-down dad.