XSLT examples
Vertana, a consulting company, is providing some useful XSLT examples. Among them, XSLT stylesheets that implement most of the string manipulation functions of VBScript.
One of my favorite XSLT resources online, however, is Dave Pawson's XSLT Questions and Answers. Can you say "depth?" Dave has tried everything with XSLT short of polyamory. :)
The tiny, broken waltz
The doll with a broken heart. I'm easily entranced by small, romantic, chromatic minuets. Today there are two in each ventricle, available as mp3s for your listening pleasure: La Valse D'Amelie from the the movie, Amelie and The Song of Storms from a Zelda video game.
Related, sort of: There's a phrase we would use in school when discussing the anticipation of a certain modal change in the harmonic structure. Borrowing from the minor. I'm constantly withdrawing against that textural account, aren't I? For me the comfort of a warm home is treasured more on rainy days. Sugar and sweets are preferred when there's a hint of bitterness; some sort of richness.
Which reminds me: I hear few sad people like vanilla best. Apparently chocolate wins consistently, generally. As a curative for sadness. Some say.
Back on topic: I think it's chocolate-sweet...the little subversiveness of the fractured minor waltz. The charms of eighteenth century binary-form minuets with harmonic centers firmly in the major are not to be dismissed, but -to put it obliquely- a rainy day's poignance shines brighter from a well-lit room.
"Hoom." (puffs on pipe)
It took several years of higher education to write so pretentiously. :)
Some better Tomcat notes coming soon.
Many recent Massless visitors are searching for information on how to configure Tomcat for use with IIS. Most likely because Google is guiding some people to my article on Tomcat 3.2 installation on Windows 2000. As soon as I get some time I will add a Tomcat 4.0 guide. I don't think an ISAPI filter for that version has been created yet, but I believe you can use the one included with 3.3. However, I'll test it myself and update my tutorial when I can...