The hideous webapplication is done. For now. There are a lot of imperfections and little problems that make the application somewhat short of what I wanted to see. However, I made a decision to run with the release anyway. I need to see if anyone in the world is interested before go on working my nights away. It's a tough decision, because I don't like to share unfinished projects.

I feel like the nameless hero from Star Wars. "Almost there...Almost there...Almost there". Hopefully I'm not attacked by a tai fighter any time soon.

I can't believe I am still spending my nights working on this web app. Although I have lots of excuses as to why the thing isn't finished yet...Lots and lots of excuses. I have to admit that I am pretty tired of working on it - I really just want to get a functional product out the door and onto the web. There are a lot of other things that I could be doing instead - like getting a full nights sleep, or doing the dishes, laundry, updating my website more than once a week etc, etc, etc.

At this point, though, I have finished the essential CRUD (create, read, update, delete) functionality for the application. While this is a shadow of my originally intended functionality, it brings the application to the point where I can use it to help me finish writing the application! Yeah! Hopefully the rest of the programming will go pretty smoothly - there isn't much more to do except for some fancy sql work and near endless revisioning of the ui. I suppose I could find myself adding some ajax library before I make anything public....In the end adding that will probably make the remaining development time about the same...I should do it sooner rather than later.

I finally got the template system working for my web app. At least a rudimentary version of a template system.

It uses a region tag library from Advanced Java Server Pages. The code in the book didn't exactly work, so it required a few tweaks. In order to get the thing up and running I had to add a debugger to my development environment. I'm using jswat - which seems okay. At the moment I am not able to get the program to attach source code to jsp's that don't exist in the main directory. Super annoying. I may write a letter.

At the moment the code is nothing special, and in retrospect I have spent most of my time learning some basics of java that are usually taken care of by eclipse. Here's a quick run-down of what I've put together on my machine to get rolling in the development phase of my super secret project.

Whew. It's been a busy week. Workmen have been crawling all over my place for the last week. Generally they were screwing around and spending waay more of my money that I had originally intended. But they finished, and I should be warm this winter -- it will be the first time I've had a bona fide heating system in more than 6 years.
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Where's my coffee?
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I've also decided to undertake the creation of a new web application platform. I spent years and years working with php - but this time I'm going to work it up with java. The reason? Well I started this job and we do some jsp development stuff. The platform runs almost entirely on jsp and it's driving me crazy. All the php projects I made and/or worked on used some form of mvc - now I find myself in a shop that doesn't use it and the pain in my ass is unbearable. I figured it would be a valuable learning experience to create a platform that does things using some of the programming concepts developed over the last 20 years...unlike we do at work.

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History
Aceize is an abbreviation of the words spACE colonIZE. The concept behind Aceize was originally formulated in the summer of 2006 in Richmond, VA by Greg Kontos, Shawn Nash and Jimmy Gilmer, and a shadowy 4th conspirator. This dubious trio set in motion a company that has a 150 year business plan to put a human colony on a planet suitable for human habitat without the need for life support systems.

At the close of the first six months of business Aceize has received $0.25 of private investment capital. All of the original principles of the company have abandoned the project with the exception of Greg Kontos.