From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Daily del.icio.us for April 26th through April 27th

April 27, 2008

What Programming Languages Should You Know? – David Chisnall suggests that the more programming languages you know, the better. The point is not to stuff your head with language rules. Rather, he explains how being able to read multiple languages, even if you never code in them, can help you to selec
MetaWidget: the 'sweet spot' [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 22nd through April 25th

April 25, 2008

Bonus Quote of the Day — Political Wire – "The Clintons know that she can?t win this. But they?'re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win."
Thank you, Javascript – The Daily WTF – Javascript supports octal numbers. Any number starting with a zero is octal, even if it can't be an actual octal [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 20th through April 22nd

April 22, 2008

InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications – In this post, Adobe’s James Ward teams up with InfoQ.com to bring you another Flex Top 10 (our most recent Flex Top 10). Flex is an open source application development framework for building rich Internet applications that run in the web with Flash Play
InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 17th through April 19th

April 19, 2008

Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’ – New York Times – The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare bisphenol-a, or B.P.A. as a toxic chemical. It is widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings in food cans.
Jodd Library -Proxetta – Proxetta is [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 14th through April 16th

April 17, 2008

Searchable javadocs – Javadocs are good but not great as they miss a key feature of being able to do a full text search. Enter Documancer – It allows you to point to the index.html Javadoc file of a given library and one can then run full text searches through the Javadocs
DataCleaner – eobjects – [...]

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Road Runner vs. U-verse

April 13, 2008

I am one of those people who hate Time Warner (because of the crappy and recently unreliable service) that can't wait for Verizon FOIS or AT&T U-verse or anything faster to show up in my neighborhood. My dream Internet provider for home would be what people in Europe have – 50Mbps connections but I'll [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 12th through April 13th

April 13, 2008

Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync – This document describes a method for generating automatic rotating "snapshot"-style backups on a Unix-based system, with specific examples drawn from the author's GNU/Linux experience. Snapshot backups are a feature of some high-end industrial file server
Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 1) – In this article series, [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 6th through April 12th

April 12, 2008

louisgray.com: Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners' Ire?: Silicon Valley Blog – As a blogger, I am a content creator. I don't want my content stolen, or reposted without attribution or under somebody else's name. But I am also a huge advocate of RSS and continuing to adapt where the conversation is being [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 4th through April 6th

April 6, 2008

Visual SourceSafe to Subversion Migration – This migration script will take all live files in a VSS project and migrate them to Subversion. Additionally, for those live files, all file history will be preserved. Without this, it wouldn't be a migration, merely an import.
VisualSVN Server – All-in-one installer for Subversion and Apache – VisualSVN Server [...]

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iTunes & Ehcache – You figure it out

April 5, 2008

Thanks to Greg Luck, I discovered something new in iTunes called My iTunes that lets you export your purchases out as RSS or as a widget to display on your website. Check out a sample of my purchases below – With DRM free music from Amazon, I'm not buying anything from iTunes that's available [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 27th through April 3rd

April 4, 2008

Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Immediately Eject a Specific USB Drive :: the How-To Geek – Using the built-in Windows dialog is more powerful and probably would suffice for most people, but for those of us that want complete control there's a small freeware utility called USB Disk Ejector.
Thermal Reaction: Tom Gleeson – You're [...]

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