Saturday, November 23

Author walljm

I have been writing on the web since 2000. I am a christian , a photographer, an occasional poet, a recovering dreamer, an occasional philosopher, a software developer, an autodidact, and I resemble the INFP personality type.

The Darwin Awards are one of the more humorous places to visit on the web. Here Here to those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in really stupid ways.

The March Essay photo’s will be posted soon. I chose the Turtle Park and surrounding area accross from the Zoo as my subject. Saint Louis, I have found, is a wealth of architecture, just waiting to be photographed. :)

I program mostly using the Microsoft paradigm. I do this mostly because the Microsoft paradigm is simpler than most, and is well documented. Even more so because you do not have to understand a lot to understand the documentation. This means that a person without a complete foundation of programming knowledge can go to msdn.microsoft.com and find examples of what he wants to do, and make it work without a lot of trouble. And because the documentation is done so well, and the environment is packaged out of site and out of mind, a person like me who has trouble…

I have been told that I am creative. Yes, I understand that some, probably most, will find that statement hard to believe. I myself find it a little disconcerting. I think the reason why I have never viewed myself as creative is because, unlike what I see other people do, I can’t just “create” an idea or something cool out of apparent nothingness. And neither do I create often. I “create”, almost always, in response to a problem. They say that necessity is the mother on invention, and that best expresses how I approach the creative process. I am, at…

This is the coolest application. It a javascript richtext editor that allows you to edit your text like you would in word. Then it converts all the stuff into html markup and puts it in a string for you to do something with. Think of the appliations…

I have been told that my site needs more graphics. And although I agree to a certain extent, I dileberately shied away from very many graphics for two reasons. First, I wanted the site to load fast, very fast. I wanted people to see the content quickly, and having lots of graphics makes that difficult. But the other reason, and the more important one is this: I wanted people to come back. See the problem with flashy web sites is that after the initial coolness factor wears off, there’s nothing to keep you there. And after a while, those flashy…

I am learning JAVA and JSP at work right now, and in honor of the process, i have been inspired to write a Japanese Haiku about it. Here it is: A Demanding Web JAVA and HTTP Dynamic Union

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