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June 2004

The Pragmatic Programmers Interview

June 28, 2004

The Pragmatic Programmers Interview by chromatic — The Pragmatic Programmers, Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, recently launched their own line of books on pragmatic software development. Since O'Reilly helps to distribute their books, we convinced them to do an interview about self-publishing, the state of the software industry, and how to become better developers.

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FireFox 0.9 – First Impressions

June 23, 2004

It's been a couple of days now, since I first installed FireFox 0.9 and it's been an interesting journey. Pete convinced me months ago to switch to FireFox and I have been a devoted Firebird/FireFox user since then. The last version on my machine was 0.8 and I was very happy with the stability of [...]

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Linksys Bluetooth USB adapter & XP SP2

June 21, 2004

If you've installed any of the release candidates of Windows XP SP2 on your computer and just purchased the Linksys Bluetooth USB adapter, don't install the included software. Instead of my usual 'just-plug-in-device-any-see-what-happens' approach, I read the included instruction and tried to install the software. I got a BSoD in the middle of the install [...]

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iPod your BMW

June 21, 2004

Chris just pointed this out to me on Apple's website and I want it. I want to iPod my BMW, but alas I own a 2001 BMW 330i.

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SpaceShipOne makes it to Space

June 21, 2004

SpaceShipOne makes it to space today making it the first private manned spaceflight in history. I've been following this exciting story for a while now and this is great news. This is part of the race to win the XPrize, which is $10 million prize for a team the builds and launches a spaceship, able [...]

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Google GMail invites

June 16, 2004

I have been one of the lucky ones that have had a Google GMail account with 1 GB of space for a while now. Every few weeks, GMail allows me to invite a friend to join GMail and I just got 3 new invites to send. The first 3 people to leave me a comment [...]

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The BileBlog gets some competition

June 15, 2004

Looks like Hani is getting some competition. Just stumbled upon the causticTech blog via Scobble and I am still laughing. You have to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top and read all the entries. Hani's been a little tame lately – Maybe a little competition will do him good [...]

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Detriot Pistons are NBA Champions

June 15, 2004

How Sweet It Is In a shocking turn of events, the underdogs Detroit Pistons shock the world and beat the LA Lakers to win the NBA championship in 5 games. I wish I had watched a few more Detroit games this season as they played a really exciting game. I am so glad that [...]

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SSH library for Java – Advice needed

June 15, 2004

My friend Chris posted a blog entry talking about his experience in working with SSH libraries for Java. After Googling, he's settled on JSCH and J2SSH and needs some help on figuring out if there are any issues with those libraries or if he should consider something completely different. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated [...]

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Donate for camera

June 14, 2004

Bill Zeller has come up with a pretty neat idea. He is trying to get enough donations to buy a new digital camera. The camera he is looking to buy is a Nikon D70 along with a telephoto lens and an adequate memory card. To that end, he is looking for donations from people and [...]

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The NBA finals get interesting

June 13, 2004

Oh wow. The Detroit Pistons stun the LA Lakers and win the 4th game of the 2004 finals to lead the series 3-1. I am big basketball fan, but I really hate the Lakers and am really pulling for the Pistons to win it all. It will be nice to have someone else win for [...]

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Low Card Potato?

June 13, 2004

This is really sick – I just read an article on MSNBC – Betting the farm on low-carb potatoes. Apparently growers in Florida, helped by state agricultural researchers, have licensed a new variety with only about 70 percent of the carbohydrates found in the Russet Burbank, the beloved and iconic coarse brown variety used for [...]

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F1> Schumacher wins again!

June 13, 2004

Wouldn't you just know it – Schumacher finds a way to win again at the Canadian Grand Prix win in Montreal making it his 7th win at Montreal. Atleast the pitbabes were out in full force

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Blog – Record ideas or publish them?

June 12, 2004

Just read an interesting article written by Robert X. Cringely entitled Together at Last where Bob muses about weblogs and their function. In his article, Bob asks the question if web log or blogs are for recording ideas or for publishing them. Bob postulates that the best use of blogs is to teach us more [...]

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BlogJet 1.1 released

June 7, 2004

Just downloaded the latest release of BlogJet 1.1 (build 20) and I am hoping they've fixed some of the bugs I have reported in the past. The most annoying bug has been the one where BlogJet just exits at random without saving anything. That bug has cost me a ton of time and effort and [...]

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JRockit, WebLogic and AOP

June 6, 2004

BEA's dev2dev has a great article entitled Enabling Aspect-Oriented Programming in WebLogic Server using the JRockit Management API that talks about using AspectWerkz under WebLogic.
AspectWerkz is a dynamic, lightweight and high-performant AOP framework for Java created by the folks at Codehaus, with support from BEA. My journey into the world of AOP started with AspectWerkz [...]

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BlogJet and WordPress

June 6, 2004

Just got BlogJet working with WordPress – Nothing magically here, but just choosing b2 in the BlogJet account setup screen seems to allow you to post to WordPress. BlogJet correctly downloaded my categories and so I will open a support ticket for them to just have an entry for WordPress in their next release.

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Wiring Your Web Application with Open Source Java

June 4, 2004

Wiring Your Web Application with Open Source Java by Mark Eagle — Building a web application with Java can be a complex process when architecting a combination of UI, business logic, and persistence. This article introduces a way to leverage open source software to lessen the burden.

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Using JAAS with Tomcat

June 3, 2004

Found this on Erik's Linkblog – http://www.kopz.org/public/documents/tomcat/jaasintomcat.html

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CVS for dummies

June 2, 2004

Just found a great blog entry by Chu Yeow entitled Your own private CVS repository via Matt's blog. In this blog entry, Chu Yeow walks you through creating a simple CVS repository and accessing it via. SSH without the need of setting up the CVS server process.
I use this technique to keep my projects in-sync [...]

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