Duane is an independent consultant with 7 years experience as a Java architect for the financial services industry. Will hack code for food, or a trip to the Cayman Islands. He can be reached at dmorin@morinfamily.com.
My laptop goes where I go. Some people like to read; I like to hack code.
Just ask my wife - I took the laptop on vacation to the Cayman Islands. The
problem I'm having is that I can never predict the state of my online
connection. At home I'm wireless; at work, wired. In between, such as my
90-minute daily train commute, I'm neither. Don't get me started on the lousy
connectivity from the beach. That downtime is a serious productivity killer,
since all my Web-enabled code becomes unstable. There are many layers to a
J2EE application these days and I don't control all of them, so I have no
guarantee that my app will behave properly if a connection fails. Worst case
scenarios - I might time out, hang, or crash altogether.
The thing is I can predict my downtimes. If I take my network card out, it's
a safe bet I don't have a connection. Instead of tackling the rather la... (more)
Duane is an independent consultant with 7 years experience as a Java 
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