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My New Birthday Present

May 17, 2009

My brother is awesome and not only because he buys me the best geeky birthday present. For my birthday this year, he bought me a new DELL XPS desktop with the latest Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 is a quad-core processor with hyper-threading that appear as 8 separate processors to the operating system, [...]

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Windows Vista SP2 Beta – Initial impressions

December 7, 2008

So I just installed SP2 of Windows Vista which is out in beta on my computer yesterday – so it’s been about 24 hours and my computer is stable and all of the applications I’ve used so far have worked just fine. The only bizarre issue that I’ve noticed so far is the uninstall of [...]

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Upgraded my computer – Love the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT card

October 12, 2008

I have a couple of computers at home but my primary machine is a DELL desktop running Vista. This is a dual-core machine with 4 GB of RAM but it ran sloooooooooooowwwwww. So I just upgraded the machine with a new 500w power supply and a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card. The NVIDIA GeForce [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for August 6th through August 11th

August 11, 2008

javagems – Gems for Java programmers; those code fragments copied again and again from one project to another – Java Gems are general purpose utilities for Java. Yes, Java Gems are those simple code snippets copied again and again from one project to another, often from your private project to several work projects, those small [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for July 20th through July 25th

July 25, 2008

Microsoft pledges love and money to open source | The Register – Microsoft is becoming a platinum member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), paying $100,000 annual membership. The move follows work between the two to support the Office Open XML file formats in Apache's POI project. Why India Will Beat China – An entrenched [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for June 24th through June 27th

June 27, 2008

vmcNetFlix – Official Site – vmcNetflix is an add-in for Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center which allows you to manage your NetFlix subscription, stream NetFlix "WatchNow" movies directly to the Media Center player, or download the movies for playback later from a "WatchLater" ga The LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac – [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 29th through May 31st

May 31, 2008

A Look Inside JBoss Rules | Javalobby – JBoss Rules is the production release of the Drools project, an expert system for declarative programming based around the Rete algorithm. During this talk, Mark Proctor, the lead on JBoss Rules covered the Drools basics, as well as the new features in 4. The 100 Greatest Guitar [...]

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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 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 16th through March 19th

March 20, 2008

reForm: CSS Form Design Template for Any Layout (Part 2) | CSS Zone – formReForm is a methodology to style HTML forms without a huge amount of markup (or [gasp] a Table-based layout). Taking it one step further, this article discusses how to use the formReForm javascript library to create usable, accessible and beautiful us [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 10th through February 14th

February 14, 2008

Zimbra’s new Desktop: Look ma, no browser! | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET Blogs – It's very cool. You should give it a spin. This is the best e-mail "client" ever built…largely because of its successful marriage of the Web with the desktop. In [...]

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