Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!

Today was all about web development using Java. It's definitely a transition from using the .NET framework. Because Java runs on multiple operating systems, you can't take anything for granted, such as what a path separator might be in the deployment environment.

I can turn to the system properties for a lot of these issues, but it's still a new world to me that involves more detail oriented work than I am used to in order to avoid deployment fiascos. It's hard enough to write code that correctly adapts to different deployment environments with one operating system to worry about. Adapting to the needs of different operating systems introduces a whole new layer of kludgy, gooey pain.

I also spent time this morning with the Mozilla console, ChromEdit, and Venkman. I never had the opportunity to use this combination before because I was locked into the Visual Studio development environment, which already has a pretty sweet DHTML debugger. Everything worked really well, however, and it was nice to play with a different set of tools. It felt a little funny at first, but then I got used to it.

Sort of like Gerald's mom.

P.S. While rocking out today in the car to Leo Laporte and geek love goddess Amber MacArthur, I found out about a little slice of internet television history known as "The Broken". Check it out... unless you are way ahead of me. In that case, just shake your head at this post and move on with your life, possibly removing me from your feed list.