Working with Your First Servlet

To be a Servlet, a Java class just has to implement the Servlet interface.  A full implementation would be Tomcat or Websphere.  We are just interested in overwriting that … and that’s possible with an abstract class called Generic Servlet. Servlet knows nothing about...

Beginning Java Core Concepts

How do you start to learn Java or Object Oriented Programming (OOP)?  I had an excellent teacher who cared about doing things the right way and teaching us why things worked the way that they did.  Below are some of my crib notes from my first class with him. EXERCISE...

Servlets and Tomcat

Servlets and Tomcat Servlet – Java technology-based Web component, managed by a container, that generates dynamic content.  Servlets interact with Web clients via a request/response paradigm implemented by the servlet container. To be a Servlet, a Java class...

Amazing Live Performance by K.T. Tunstall

This is the live spot on Later with Jools Holland that launched her career. It’s amazing to watch such a diminutive person deliver such a powerful performance. When she takes the stage, you expect her to do a folk song but the song builds upon itself throughout...

Evolution of the Fiocci Site

Fiocci actually started out back in 1998 as Desolation Angels.  It was initially developed in NetObjects Fusion 3.0 at a time when I was just getting my fingers wet with HTML.  Below are a few screen shots from that early endeavor. I had taken the title from a Jack...