‘Leap of Faith’
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Title - ‘Leap of Faith’
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Title - ‘Parking lot’
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Title - Dinner is cookin’
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wow - the Wrong Color won the 3rd place this week!!
this week’s theme-”Evening Light” 
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Title - ‘Slick’
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Theme is “Wet”
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Its been a exciting first month for brownGEEK. My sincere thanks to the regular readers 
Here are some stats-
most active day - October 8 (2258 requests)
least active day - September 16 (23 requests)
google search words - “browngeek” “core JSF” “sri varadarajan”
browser - mozilla/firefox (14788), IE (7218)
way to go!!:lol:
Here is Craig McClanahan’s attempt to answer the question.
Struts Or JSF? Struts And JSF?
my submisssion above for the fredmirandaweekly assignment got picked in the top 10!!
other photographers will get to vote the best amongst them…i dont expect to win, but am glad i made it to the finals in my 3rd week.
this is great 
thanks to the people that supported me.
update oct 19, 2004, 23:38.
My photo won 3rd place!!
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Theme is “Pick the one that doesn’t belong”. This is the THEME, this does NOT mean you are asked to pick the one that doesnt belong from the 6 photos below 
My title for the photo - The Wrong Colour
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today amber and I took a day-trip to the Blueridge Parkway. We started at milepost 0 near c’ville and drove till ‘peaks of otter’ at milepost 86. The drive and the scenary of the fall colors were great and breathtaking, but I was more looking forward to the sunset in the ‘peaks of otter’ since it is rated the best in the parkway. Well, as my luck would have it, the weather did not play nice and the clouds came in 
We wanted to spend the night in the lodge there, but unfortunately October is the peak month here and no rooms were available. Darn it!
Anyway, we ate at the wonderful restaurant in the lodge. The meal was so great and the pecan pie dessert so sumptious that it made up for the bad sunset
The photos are Here .
I am currently reading David Geary’s Core JavaServer Faces book. I have read Chapters 1-9 and Chapter 12 (Ch 10 talks about JSF/ external service, Ch 11 about JSF/wireless clients).
One thing that annoyed me right away was he starts talking about the core JSF classes (UIInput, FacesContext etc) in early chapters without a formal introduction to the JSF class hierarchy. He does do a good job in laying out the JSF and HTML tags, but he never does the same for the classes. Well, I think that maybe the class hierarchy will come soon, but as I finished chapter 9 (custom components), I realized he never did that. As a programmer, I feel that this is a serious lacking in a book. Again, as a programmer, I managed to overcome this lacking by referring to the JSF Javadocs for the class hierarchy as I was reading thru the chapters. David Geary’s own article on JSF does a good job of introducing the classes (although the names are a little outdated).
His examples are very good (the downloaded code builds/works great), but I did not find any that “pushed the envelope” of JSF. For example, in the custom components chapter, he talks about building a custom spinner :roll:; yes, this is a good intro to howto, but I would like to see something more complicated and exciting, like a tree or a list component. After all, the ability to plugin custom components as tags is one of the enticing features of the JSF specification. It would have also been nice if he had talked more about JavaScript/JSF interaction.
The book is about 600+ pages long, but I think half the pages are just code printed (a lot of the code is also repeated in the discussion within the chapters). I dont know if this is good (lot of printed code) or bad (lot of wasted trees). The longer chapters kind of meander between discussion of code and printed code, and by the time I was with the chapter, I had to go back and put the pieces together myself. It would have been nice if he summarized the concepts in the end. (I plan to summarize the ‘Custom Components’ chapter soon)
I did find the chapter on Tiles and the ‘How do I’ section on using the Commons Validator for client-side validation, quite interesting and informative 
(although, I think he should have delved more into these topics instead of a whole chapter on the JSF dataTable tag!)
Bottomline, Core JSF is a good introduction to JSF with some advanced discussion too. I recommend it to get started on JSF, but with a healthy dose of JSF JavaDocs and/or another book.