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January 2006

Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 31, 2006

January 31, 2006

Dave's Wordpress Blog – Microsoft ships RSS platform » Microsoft has released a public beta of version 7 of their Internet Explorer web browser. Trelease is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the first Microsoft release that includes comprehensive support f
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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 30, 2006

January 30, 2006

Wells Fargo Advantage Funds Web Site Recognized as a Top 10 Portal » The Wells Fargo Advantage Funds(SM) Investment Professionals Web site has been named one of the Top 10 Intermediary Web Sites by kasina, LLC, a leading management consulting firm to the financial services industry
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Life is beautiful with XMLBeans and XStream

January 30, 2006

XML creation, parsing and processing with Java has gotten so much easier with tools like XMLBeans, XStream and many other such tools. I personally love XMLBeans and XStream and I try to use them for all of my XML processing needs. While they both consume XML, they solve different problems. XMLBeans allows you [...]

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I want the Broadband EVDO Router

January 30, 2006

I was just reading Scoble's blog entry that talks about EVDO and his experiences and one of the entries in the comment caught my eye. David Rupp pointed out the Kyocera KR1 Broadband EVDO Router that has built In WiFi and basically rebroadcasts EVDO over WiFi (using 802.11g). In addition, it offers 4 [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 29, 2006

January 29, 2006

Re-Introducing the Real Windows Vista (Updated x3) at Tauquil's Blog » As I watched Bill demonstrate the features of Vista a sense of deja vu washed over me. It was like I've seen it all somewhere before
Erik's Weblog : Java2Html and IntelliJ IDEA » IDEA can export Java source code to HTML, which I find [...]

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DVR Alert – U2 Vertigo 2005 Tour: Live from Chicago on HDNet

January 29, 2006

I guess the title above says it all – Set your VCR, DVR, PC-DVR or Media Center PC to record U2 in High definition. Director Hamish Hamilton gives you a front row seat for all the excitement from the sold out Vertigo tour. Vertigo//2005 features electric performances of songs drawn from across the band's [...]

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Books I’m currently reading

January 29, 2006

As a recurring feature, I post a list of books that I am currently reading. I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. With a very demanding job, a wife and a young daugther, I've built up quite a backlog and hope to get to most of these books in the next [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 28, 2006

January 29, 2006

Sun's Java(TM) Enterprise System Subscriptions Surpass One Million as American Express Chooses Integrated Software Platform for Global Deployment: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
American Express plans to utilize the full-featured Java ES system to support a number of projects, including portal applications, and enhanced identity management services. The Java ES system is the software companies use [...]

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I hate Roxio and Nero!

January 28, 2006

I have had it – I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to burn a simple f***ing DVD on my computer. Roxio and Nero and all the other DVD burning software that I have tried for Windows just suck and I've burnt more coasters than.. Ok. Can't think of a smart or [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 26, 2006

January 27, 2006
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Ajax Programming in BEA WebLogic Portal

January 26, 2006

Ajax Programming in BEA WebLogic Portal, Part 1 by John Margaglione — John Margaglione explains the rationale for using Ajax programming methods within the BEA WebLogic Portal environment, and offers some best practices and advice to avoid the many pitfalls awaiting the new Ajax programmer.

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dev2dev> Developing Ajax Applications That Preserve Standard Browser Functionality

January 26, 2006

Developing Ajax Applications That Preserve Standard Browser Functionality by Mark Schiefelbein — Ajax applications are praised for their richness, interactivity, and responsiveness, which are achieved by loading data asynchronously using the XMLHttpRequest object instead of loading new pages. In this article, Mark Schiefelbein shows how to preserve standard browser history functionality while taking advantage of [...]

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FeedLounge vs. FeedDemon

January 26, 2006

I use FeedDemon for all my blog/feed reading and have done so for many years. I really love FeedDemon and I cannot think of a feature that it is missing. Nick Bradbury has done a great job with FeedDemon and it continues to flourish with the NewsGator acquisition. I love the fact [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 25, 2006

January 26, 2006
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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 24, 2006

January 25, 2006
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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 23, 2006

January 24, 2006
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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 22, 2006

January 23, 2006
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Windows Live Mail – The emergence of a framework?

January 22, 2006

I've been following Microsoft's launch of Live.com or Windows Live as it's officially called and the other offerings included under ideas.live.com. I've raved about Windows Live Custom Domains and I finally got an invite to try out Live Mail. Live Mail is essentially a replacement for Hotmail and it is AJAX enabled with [...]

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WordPress Upgrade Woes

January 22, 2006

I had a couple of interesting days last weekend fighting with MySQL, WordPress and DNS. This past weekend, I decided to upgrade this blog, which has about 800 posts and 4000+ comments to WordPress 2.0. As part of this move, I was also going to move hosts from pair.com to Kattare, a kick-ass [...]

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Daily Del.icio.us for Jan 21, 2006

January 21, 2006
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