Archive for March, 2004

Frustration with web application complexity

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

I enjoy working on web applications. I like JSP and Java. But it gets so frustrating sometimes, trying to write complex applications using HTML as the user interface. The web wasn’t designed for this.

Take my newest assignment. Basically, we want to be able to fill in the values of an […]

Too much I want to do!

Monday, March 22nd, 2004

So, typically my pattern is to get obsessed with some subject or activity, get bored with it after a while, and move on to a new obsession. One obsession at a time.

For example, three years ago I was obsessed over buying a car. I visited the forums at edmunds.com every day, and […]

Favicon

Friday, March 19th, 2004

Yay! Now I have a pretty favicon (the little flower icon that shows up next to my address (to see it in IE, you either have to bookmark the site, or sometimes dragging the icon a half-inch or so within the address bar will work).

To create, I used Windows Paint, saved as a GIF, […]

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Friday, March 19th, 2004

No, I’m not speaking of myself, as I am rather practical and thrifty when it comes to shopping, but rather of the book by Sophie Kinsella.

My friend Brandy lent me this book last Sunday, along with the other two books which complete the trilogy. I knew they were probably good books, being as popular […]

One snowy night

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

Internationalization and Localization

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

I don’t mean to pick on WordPress, I really don’t, but I’m using it, so that’s why it gets to be an example.

Today I decided to change the text for the comment links from “Comments (0)”, “Comments (1)”, Comments(x) to “Add a comment!”, “One comment”, and “x comments”, respectively. In order to do so, […]