Dear God, Good One.

In the immortal words of Dave Barry (and, possibly, Moses), I am not making this up.

 

Last year we went to a white elephant gift exchange and came home with this awesome fish sculpture thing. We put M&M's in it for a while but they ran out. (You wouldn't expect that from a miraculous fish like this one, but I'm getting ahead of myself.) Anyway most of the time it just sat around on the counter.

 

Pretty much unrelated to that, last September I decided to give up drinking sodas. That's when I also decided to take up drinking coffee. Up until then I was a non-coffee drinker. We didn't even own a coffee maker but now we have this cool little Keurig number. On a whim, I decided to put some of our K-cups into the fish so guests could see what kind of selection we had.

 

Jarring topic shift: at work I develop a lot of software in C++. But we have some applications written in Java that need support so I've been trying to learn some of the Java Enterprise Edition technology.

 

At the heart of Java EE, is the concept of an Application Server. This is like a web server but instead of web pages, it hosts Java programs called servlets and other things called Beans and whatnot. I'm still a little fuzzy on all that.

 

But here's the thing. There are lots of different Application Servers available. One commonly used AS is named Glassfish and since it is free from Oracle with the Java EE developer tools, it's the one that I'm trying to use first.

 

So, to summarize, I've just learned in the past week that Glassfish is a thing that contains and serves Java objects. But for months already I've had a glass fish on my counter that contains and serves java objects.

 

I feel that God has just stepped out from wherever He's been watching me, doubled over laughing and enigmatically walked away.

 

I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to mean but I suspect we're supposed to wipe out the Hittites and take their cities. Who's with me?

Done