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Java/J2EE

I love Wordle

February 11, 2009

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide and I love playing with it. Every couple of weeks, I'll stumble onto Wordle again and fall in love all over again . Here is a tag cloud of all of the tags from my del.icio.us bookmarks.

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Go create your [...]

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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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Books I am currently reading

December 23, 2007

As I've said before, I am a voracious book collector and (usually) reader as well. I love books and could spend hours reading. With a demanding job, a wife and a young daughter, I've built up quite a backlog and hope to get to most of these books in the next few weeks. Here are [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 03, 2007

April 3, 2007

From Java EE security to Acegi – The right way to protect your Web applications – This article is an in-depth introduction and comparison of Java EE security and Acegi. They both offer a variety of security services to make application security programming easier. The declarative and annotation-based programming methodologies let devel
Microsoft Watch – Games [...]

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Website Performance and Optimization

March 24, 2007

A couple of months ago, I noticed that I was getting pretty close to using up all of my monthly bandwidth allocation for my server and that was a surprise. I run several blogs that get quite a few hits but I didn't think I was anywhere near going over my 250 GB allotment. [...]

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Will (Or Should) Adobe open-source Flex?

March 1, 2007

I have been building AJAX applications for a while now and absolutely love AJAX and the improvements it can offer in user-interface design, making applications easy and fun to use. But AJAX does have limitations and I, like many others have come to the realization that while AJAX is great for most things, it [...]

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PHP Acceleration – Pick Your Poison

February 27, 2007

As I deployed more applications and web sites on my server, I started running into resource issues. Since most of the applications I write are in Java, I run Tomcat on my Linux server. But I also run Apache as a front-end host for Tomcat as well as several PHP applications like WordPress, [...]

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Red Hat to Oracle (and market) – Oh No You Didn't!

December 23, 2006

Red Hat shares jumped about 25% after they reported a quarterly profit and outlook that topped Wall Street forecasts. After the close, the stock is still going up in after-hours trading. Kudos to Red Hat whose stock had been hammered after Oracle announced that they were going to redistribute Red Hat's Linux under [...]

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Hosting Woes Over

November 18, 2006

The day started off fairly normally – Check GMail for anything that needs immediate attention, then move to blog stats and then hit GrabPERF to see how my sites are behaving. And much to my very pleasant surprise, my blog made it on the front page of GrabPERF and it was on the good [...]

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TechCrunch is down

November 1, 2006

Looks like TechCrunch is down because the MySQL database server is either down or inaccessible.

Mike really should look into VIP Hosting at Wordpress.com.

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Save Baby Gavin

October 30, 2006

I apologize as this is a little off-topic for this blog but I wanted to bring as much attention as I could to the Save Baby Gavin website and blog. My wife's cousin Jill has a beautiful little boy named Gavin. Gavin was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or [...]

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OpenDNS Rocks

October 18, 2006

I first discovered OpenDNS on Chris Pirillio's blog – OpenDNS is a free service that is designed to make your Internet browsing faster, safer and smarter. And guess what - it does that. OpenDNS is essentially a set of massive distributed DNS caches that allow faster name resolution and yet obey the TTL [...]

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Pictobrowser Rocks

October 9, 2006

Just found the Pictobrowser from Thomas Hawk's blog and it is an amazing way to embed pictures in your blog. Pictobrowser is a simple widget that allows you to display sets of pictures from Flickr directly on your site or blog using Flash and the users never leave your site. Pictobrowser is the [...]

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Essential Software for Windows

September 23, 2006

You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can't [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 20, 2006

September 20, 2006

Geek Smithology – The State of Enterprise Ruby
The real takeaway is that if you truly believe in using the best tool for the job, then you will be using Ruby at some point in the future.
(tags: rails Ruby Enterprise dave+thomas scalability)

StorageMojo – Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon's Datacenter, Pt I
Unlike Goole�s clean sheet approach to creating [...]

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Amazon Unbox Video – More of the same

September 10, 2006

Amazon launched their latest offering entitled Unbox Video which is essentially a video (TV shows, movies, etc) download to buy or rent service. Rumor is that Amazon rushed this out on Friday, September 8th to beat some super secret announcement coming from Apple later next week.

The Unbox video service doesn't offer anything new and [...]

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Amazon EC2 and S3 – Implications for the Enterprise

September 3, 2006

Now that the blogosphere has settled down after the launch of Amazon's EC2 beta program, I figured it was time to talk about something that I found missing in all the blogs and online discussions.
Before we get to the Enterprise implication of EC2 and S3, I should probably let the people that haven't [...]

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Subversion & Proxy Servers

August 22, 2006

Is there a known issue with Subversion and proxy servers? I guess I should have run into this years ago but I don't ever remember having an issue. I just got a new laptop with a fresh install of Windows XP and connection out to the Internet is using a Squid proxy server. [...]

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Webinar> Spring Framework in WebLogic Server 9.2

August 16, 2006

BEA is hosting a webinar on September 20, which will discuss the existing integration points between WebLogic Server and Spring and what is coming down the pipe for Spring 2.0, WebLogic Server 9.2 and beyond. The webinar will also discuss new technologies introduced with WebLogic 9.2 that support the use of the Spring Framework [...]

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BEA Workshop Studio and Ubuntu

August 2, 2006

I have been following BEA's acquisition of M7 to see what happens to the NitroX product. We are a big WebLogic shop and so I was curious to see what BEA is going to bake in the new release of NitroX renamed Workshop Studio. The new Workshop Suite is based on the Callisto [...]

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