bedeviled mojo slop

Interesting quote in this Yahoo article. My emphasis in bold.

"The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers," said Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America. "The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of American schools."

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

I assume along with the rest of the technology workers in this country, Scott Kirwin is also willing to work for the minimum wage ($5.15) or lower. Hmmmm? No? Dude, even outsourced labor is paid more than the minimum wage! Idiot.

OK guitar gods, have at it!

Guitar (verse)
E-------------------------------
B-------------------------------
G-------------------------------
D-7/9-----12\9-----7/9----------
A-5/7-----10\7-----5/7----------
E----------------------0-0-0-0--
                       |  PM  |

Changelog. Download.

Well, I don't know why I did it, but I quickly wrote (read: you should not use this other than to experiment and the code is redundant in places) a GroovyDispatcher for blojsom. If you don't know Groovy, then check it out. To use it, you'd need to add the following to your /WEB-INF/dispatcher.properties:

groovy=org.blojsom.dispatcher.GroovyDispatcher

And add the following to a user's flavor.properties:

html=html.groovy, text/html;charset=UTF-8

Honestly, I'm not going further with this at the mo'. I was thinking it'd be a way of writing "live" blog entries. The thought is scary. If anything, maybe I'll learn some Groovy syntax because right now my Groovy syntax mojo is horrible. Here's what I did for the html.groovy template:

entry = BLOJSOM_ENTRIES;
result = "Blog entry: " + entry.title + entry.description;
return result;

There's GroovyServlet for writing Groovlets. I guess I could look at that to expose certain objects (request, response) to the Groovy script in that way. I guess this could('ve) evolve(d) into a GroovyPlugin for writing "live" blog entries. Scary but it might have some practical use ... someday Anyhoo, that's about it for now.

<austin-powers>Groovy baby!</austin-powers>

One of the things I'd like to see in an upcoming version of IntelliJ is the ability to define default settings for the Ant Build when adding a new Ant build file to your project. Invariably, I am always selecting the option to "Make build in background" and to run under a custom JDK. If nothing more than a timesaver, it seems like a useful feature.