http://www.mcdonaldland.info A magical discussion of software, economics, and other assorted theories. but mainly software. Fri, 16 May 2008 14:16:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Q: What can have a single face or thousands of them, but should only ever have one identity? A: A company. Every time an employee of a company contacts a customer, a potential hire, a supplier, a government office, or anyone else, they are assuming the identity of their company, whether they ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/05/16/points-of-contact/ I'm proud to announce the arrival of Elle Adeline McDonald, the newest addition to our family. She was born 5/10 at 9:45 am, was 6 pounds, 15 ounces, and 20.5 inches long. http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/05/13/baby-elle/ There have been a number of experiments and historical events where people have been systematically excluded from the larger group. In some situations this meant that they were forced to forego privileges while in others it meant the extraction of their personal rights and freedoms. Regardless of the severity, case, ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/05/08/and-the-cheese-stands-alone/ For those of you in the Charleston, SC area on May 21st, we will be having our Java users group meeting at 6pm. Fred Mikkelson from BEA will be joining us to discuss Weblogic Virtual Server and the inner sanctums of the JRockit JVM. If you are interested in joining us, ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/05/07/java-users-group/ I think so. http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/05/06/is-a-lot-of-little-funny-better-than-a-little-bit-of-lots-of-funny/ I am sincerely not a fan of Rodney Dangerfield however feel that his cliche utterance of, "I get no respect", can find its place in modern society. One of the best core values I have ever been a part of is: "Respect the individual". This singular value is so encompassing that ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/05/02/i-get-no-respect/ We recently decided that we were going to rip out our 4 foot high picket fence and replace it with a 6 foot privacy fence. The biggest challenge through the whole process lay in removing the concrete encased fence posts for the existing fence. If you have ever tried to ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/04/28/working-smart-versus-working-smarter/ I am admittedly still a newbie at Grails and am self learning without aid of a book, hence the simplicity of this post. After I finished the current application I am working on the last step was to get the root index.gsp page to redirect to something more useful. So ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/04/24/grails-redirect/ I've got a decent commute each day - roughly 40 minutes to an hour for 16 miles, twice a day. While sitting in traffic and thinking about the ever-skyrocketing gas costs I can't help but wonder why we haven't begun to harness more of the potential energy pent up within ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/04/23/thinking-green/ In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions... When It Counts This was a good book. It starts out by talking about the questions President Clinton had to answer during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and reviewed some rather tough questions he had to field during that time. The book ... http://www.mcdonaldland.info/2008/04/22/book-review-in-the-line-of-fire-how-to-handle-tough-questions%e2%80%a6when-it-counts/