#meow.
post-xmas zza!
brain is currently lodged in b’more, sucking up resources at an alarming rate. I didn’t realize I was capable of so much sleep…
My recent pining over XSLT prompted rather an outstanding gift from my father-in-law. Of course, the first thing that happens is that it confirms my suspicions that the Xalan/Xerces combination is what I want to use for server-side XML parsing & XSLT. However, it also reinforced my suspicion that iwas going to require a lot more server tweaks/setup than I had originally planned on. (And by “originally”, I mean back before finishing my first XML book … when I just knew that XSLT worked exactly like CSS…) So now I’m wrestling with getting Tomcat set up … trying to get it and Apache to play nice and serve the applications I need. Etc. And they told me this Java shit was going to be sooooooo easy… Seems like each element requires another fundamental element that I thought I already had. *le sigh*
I’m on vacation.
[...] So the rest of this weekend will likely be spent with feet up and my arse parked in front of Neverwinter Nights. (I’ve abandoned my monk character in favor of a rogue. That always happens to me though. I’m too tempted to pick locks. That’s just the way it is.) But some time better-spent would likely be a return to trying to get Tomcat up and running on KetelOne — but only if I can figure out how to get it to play nice with Apache. A while back, I had downloaded a pre-packaged Tomcat solutions that supposedly plugs in to Apache2 with a snap. But there’s a big part of me that has no interest in abandoning the Apache server built right in to OS X. The Web Sharing preference pane is more/less a non-issue but I don’t feel like farting around with getting mod_rendezvous up and running under 2 either. /sigh [...]
November 16th, 2005 at 12:57 pm