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Trying Out Woopra Analytics
I tried to sign up for Woopra last night and ran into some problems related to bad code on their site (lots of Java code in their JSPs and an improperly permissioned MySQL database). It wouldn’t let me sign-in for … Continue reading
I Suppose The Firebug Developers Should Be Flattered…
I was looking for some IE developer tools (because they generally suck) and came across this at the Microsoft site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848894(VS.85).aspx Wow, that doesn’t look like Firebug or anything does it?? And it won’t even work on IE7. Sigh. Trying … Continue reading
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Annoying Java.Blogs Bug
Hopefully some of you are coming to this page from the daily Java.Blogs update e-mail that shows up in your inbox every night. And maybe someone that maintains the site will see this and figure out why this bug happens. … Continue reading
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When Voice Recognition Goes Bad — Horribly Bad
I was grocery shopping the other day and wanted to find out what a hothouse tomato is so I spoke the words “hothouse tomatoes” into the Google Mobile App for the iPhone and it returned “penthouse letters”. Not exactly what … Continue reading
Ternary operators in JSP
Every now and then I come across things I haven’t used before but should have been using. The ternary operator in JSP is one of them. It makes it so much easier to write out some text based on a … Continue reading
Hudson As A Service On Vista
Installing Hudson as a service on Vista is a little tricker than on XP. Follow my experience to get it to work for you as well. Continue reading
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Tagged ant, build server, ci, continuous integration, hudson, java, subversion
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Google App Engine Is Available
Google’s App Engine service was released today. How does it look and how does it compare to Amazon’s AWS offerings? Continue reading
An Odd Side Effect of the Google Calendar Sync module
I installed the Google calendar sync tool when it came out recently and I have it working pretty good. The one side effect is that I had to login in to my work e-mail address Google account and then give … Continue reading
Spring Annotations, Spring MVC and an interesting bug in 2.5.1
I’ve been doing some work in Spring MVC (Spring v2.5.1) and using annotations to see how simple I can keep my XML configuration (pretty small so far) and while coming across a few interesting gotchas that I’ll be describing in … Continue reading
My NetBeans 6 Wishlist
I’ve been using NetBeans 6 for a while now. For the most part I like it. I give it a thumbs up overall and at this point I generally prefer it over Eclipse for general web development. Here, however, is … Continue reading
