Daniel E. Markle's Blog

While wandering around the Harrisburg area I came across this sign. I am not sure what an "Adult Salad Bar" is, but I don't think it is something I would expect at a family restaurant.  A "Hot" roast beef sandwich does indeed seem like an appropriate side.

As I have needed to interact with photographers frequently for various projects at work, and finding myself taking increasing amounts of photos for commercial purposes, I have been doing quite a bit of reading on photography rights and pricing models. While investigating the ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) site, I found an article on the perils of stock photography. Not only is it an important warning about making sure the photos you are using are unique and not from some overused stockpile, it is quite humorous as well.

I have been using Netbeans 4.1 for J2EE and Struts development for a while now. I like Netbean's out-of-the-box support for such development without the need to mess around getting plugins installed. I watched the new Netbeans 5.0 beta demo this evening and really liked what I saw. It takes about 30 minutes to watch and is definitely worth your time if you already use Netbeans or are not completely happy with what you are using now (which is pretty much always with most programmers I believe).

Infoworld's cover this week, just like the magazine itself, gives an unflinchingly accurate view of the present and future of the computing industry. There are so many elements in this picture which allude to the doom of Microsoft that I can tell the artist is someone who really has a deep understanding of the industry.

After using my own hacked-together blogging scripts for a while which required me to do raw SQL inserts into a database, I have decided to go with the Serendipity blogging package instead. This will be the last time my old rss feed will be updated, so you will want to visit my updated site soon and subscribe to the new rss link.