The Rise of Black Radio
If one thing has held true during this election season, it’s the growing influence of Black Radio DJs. Warren Balentine, Michel Basin and Al Sharpton are giving their growing base of listeners a place of discourse that they have never really had outside of churches and public halls. This is just one of the ways that Radio is proving more advanced than Television in terms of grass root discourse. Sorry, BET.
ApacheCon about to get Krunk
After 7 years, ApacheCon, the annual conference of the Apache Software Foundation is coming back to the east coast of the United States. Most of the big conventions in the US happen on the West Coast in California. For those of us on the East Coast that are short on cash to fly to Cali much less register for these conferences (which are not cheap) , this is a good thing.
PS3 Update
I still don’t have a Playstation 3 in my house. This time it’s not a programming issue. It’s just good ole life that’s causing the delay. Weddings, kids going back to school and a short vacation has kept the PS3 out of reach. Fall is here now and I’ve decided I’m ready to try again. I’m thinking of putting Grails up to the challenge before I totally just beg off with a basic Apache Struts 2 CRUD app. I’ll keep ya bastids posted.
How my addiction to web frameworks lost me a Playstation 3
I have a buddy that is a SEO nut. He has a gizillion domain names that basically pay for his Jigaratti lifestyle. Unfortunately, though most of his sites run on php, he refuses to learn the language, and often IMs me for help when he gets stuck on something LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) related. Being that it’s not my real mortgage paying job, his stuff usually takes a back seat to real work. 2 weeks ago, he was desperate, he needed 3 CRUD (create retrieve update delete) apps for 3 already existing databases. He did not care what language I used, as long as it worked. No design work was needed, no fancy css, no background colors, just CRUD forms. In exchange for building the apps , I would receive a brand new PS3. A PS3 is not in the “family” budget right now, so I was excited. I set aside that coming weekend to work on the project. That week, the bastard called me from the store to tell me that he was in Walmart picking up my PS3 and did I need an extra controller? We joked about being able to play it before the weekend was over. All I had to do now was decide what platform I was going to build this on. Had this been 1999 , this would have been a no brainer, LAMP : a few html forms , a connection to Mysql (maybe even put that stuff in a fancy dancy include file) and I would have been golden. As far as the PHP platform has come, you can still do sh** like that today , throw up apps in less than a day. This is why you never want to make PHP your 9-5 job. More on that another time. I decided it would be so much cooler if I used this as an excuse to try out a new framework, Jboss Seam. Read more
Bling Water: If you have to ask…
I heard about this on the radio this morning and I can’t wait to get a case of this stuff. Bling H20 is not just water, it’s luxury water. Made with the bling set in mind. At 40 ollars a bottle ( a very pretty handcrafted bottle) you will directing your own music videos in no time. Read more
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