If you ever find yourself designing a j2ee web UI framework from scratch, please, I beg you, stop and ask yourself, "Why am I reinventing this wheel?" Then ask yourself, "Why is this wheel I'm reinventing lumpier and less round than the wheels I'm trying to copy?" Then stop reinventing that wheel and use some already-established open-source framework. If you have problems with it, contribute and make it better instead of complaining and using that as a reason to reinvent your own misshapen, squeaky wheel.
By the way, this is totally off-topic, but I think the new apple iPod shuffle is really cool. When I was running with an mp3 player, sometimes I would waste a half-hour before a run trying to get new songs onto my mp3 player. What took them so long to think of this?
August 24th, 2005 at 01:03 PM Somehow this posting reminds of something.... Now what is is again. Maybe I am FLIPing out.