Dazed & Confused

Seems like Cafepress has got some serious competition, and they even got a solid European prescence. Go to Spreadshirt to create own designs, open a shop or buy something of the already available designs. From what I can see they got a wider product offering than Cafepress.

UPDATE: This is old and pretty irrelevant information. Check out this article: http://blog.f12.no/wp/2009/03/28/synchronized-calendar-and-contacts/ .
I’ve been googling a bit for how to sync my Outlook calendar and my Sunbird calendar. Nothing reasonable came up. Anyone got any tips?
What I basically want to do is sync my work Outlook with Sunbird running om my personal computer at [...]

The ones of you following TSS have probably seen the debate between Floy Marinescu and Ted Neward about the history and intentions of EJB.
In this latest post Ted responds to some comments by Keith Donald regarding the discussion. Read it all to get the big picture, but they are currently discussing the “dangers” of [...]

Seems like Rails has got an answer from the Java community in Trails. I havn’t played around with Rails yet, but I skimmed a couple of tutorials on it. To me it seems Trails is even simpler.
What will be the interesting part about it is how to extend and override default behaviour. If that is [...]

Some good info on how to use JSF can be found here. It contains experiences from a real world project.
Via Matt Raible.

IBM har a good article detailing the differences between IE and Mozilla.

Finally! A really good spamkiller for WordPress. I used Kittens Spaminator a while, but it started to let messages through. Then I switched to a spamassasin brindge for WordPress, but it was moderating valid comments, and sifting through the moderation queue was too much work. Now I’ve installed SpamKarma 2 which seems to be working [...]

So I did my first adventure into the world of AJAX today. Nothing fancy, just a lookup on the server for the name of the area based on the zip code. DWR made it all a breeze. I spent a little time figuring out the config, but the amount of config and amount of code [...]

Ever needed to present a bunch of data in tables and started to get sick of using logic:iterate ? Then you need to try the <display:*> library. Just send in your array of data and it displays everything in nice tables.
If you need to customize the look & feel you just write your own [...]

Ted Neward has a good response to an article by Floyd Marinescu here.
He discusses the history of EJB, weaknesses and what he sees as the wrong and correct use of EJB. Especially the dangers of thinking that distribution can be done with “complete” OO POJO models. Just face it, you can’t. Remoting and distribution [...]