The global recession is surely taking its toll. Accenture, Branders, Lawson… everybody’s been hit. This morning, I got to the office and Joyce told me another wave of retrenchments, the third in the company so far, have hit. Needless to say, it is very demoralizing. The first time it happened, they said they’re letting go of people whose skills were no longer aligned with the strategic direction of the company. The second time it happened, they said they’re letting go of people with redundant skills. The sad thing was that it happened just as a project wrapped up and a lot of the people who toiled in the project were let go. That sucked even more since it was just before Christmas. Now the third time, almost everyone not involved in any project were let go. And each time,the severance package becomes less and less consoling. When will this end?
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Michelle and I haven’t cooked in a while so we decided to cook prawn.
12 pieces prawn
½ cup butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 garlic cloves, minced
Rinse the prawns and leave to drain in strainer.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Add the butter and let it melt.
Add the garlic and fry over a low heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the prawns and cook them for 5 to 10 minutes until they turn orange.
Remove from the heat and serve.
Was that easy or what? :P
Here’s a great way of learning JSF from the JSF For Non-Believers series by Rick Hightower at IBM Developerworks.
- Clearing The FUD About JSF
- The JSF Application Lifecycle
- JSF Conversion and Validation
- JSF Component Development
Pretty good although one thing to watch out for is that you need to change the faces-config.xml from the DTD used by JSF 1.1 to the Schema used by JSF 1.2.
I recently upgraded to the latest WordPress. That in itself is a long story. For some reason, the automatic upgrade didn’t work and I had to manually upgrade. I got that done but I noticed my posts were showing weird characters like  or †or or ?. I looked it up and apparently it is a problem with character encoding. The first solution I saw is a little bit unsatisfactory so I searched some more and found the ultimate solution. I followed the instructions and, voila!, no more weird characters.