Email … friend or foe? On balance, I would have to say, “friend”. But there are times … like when I download my mail in the morning … all 200+ items of it, only to find a good 40% or so is nothing but junk, that I have to acknowledge that there is a “dark side”, as well.
Taming your Tomcat: Filtering tricks for Tomcat 5
Designing maintainable high-performance systems
The new Tomcat 5 server takes filters to a new level of deployment flexibility. Tomcat 5’s support for the upcoming Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications gives filter writers a new way to integrate and deploy these flexible components — tapping directly into the request dispatcher’s operations. In this article, Sing Li takes you on a guided tour of the new enhancement and gives you some hands-on training. See how Tomcat 5 can benefit Web application frameworks and lead ultimately to the design of maintainable high-performance systems.
Taming the Small Business Beast
The entrepreneurial life yes THAT’S the life for me. Being your own boss can afford you the freedom to work when you please, do what you want, and spend more time with your family. It’s true, owning a small business can be a dream come true, or a nightmare if you let it be. There are untold dangers to be had with owning a business. Without careful and deliberate attention, a business that was once designed to suit your needs may easily turn on you like a growling fearsome creature that keeps you trapped in the corner. How do you tame the small business beast?
Taming the Update Monster
Have you ever spent two hours changing just one word that recurs on each page of your website? Anyone who has maintained a web site with many pages for an extended period of time knows the nightmare of having to edit a word or date that recurs on each page, such as copyright information. Having to edit every single page can be very time-consuming and tedious and often gets avoided for as long as possible (usually too long). But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are good programs now that allow us to perform “search & replace” on multiple files, but there is an even better way to accomplish this task, and you won’t have to worry about inadvertently “replacing” something by mistake. By using simple Server Side Includes (SSI), you can streamline and simplify the maintenance of your site.