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Rodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Dentifrical consequences
I've had three visits to the dentist in the last few days. The first was a checkup, the second was to install two fillings, and the third was to prepare a crown. The fillings were in teeth #6 and #11...
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Rodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Cool free 3D model tool
If you haven't heard of Google Sketchup (I hadn't until recently), and you're into draughting, tech drawing, or modeling, you should check it out. It's free (as in beer), although there is a Pro...
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Maria Odea Ching: Staging Repositories and Artifact Promotion in Archiva
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) recently wrapped up. The Archiva project was one of the projects in the Apache Software Foundation that participated in the program. Eshan Sudharaka, a student from the...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Blogger finally checks for spam!
This is a big relief for me, because every time I posted a new entry, I'd get half a dozen spams, in chinese. Their new spam filter seems to work nicely. I may eventually open up comments again for...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry at JavaOne 2010
Just a reminder: I'll be presenting Tapestry: State of the Union this coming Monday, Sep 20th at 8:30 PM, in Moscone South 309. Because of pressing demands and client commitments, I'm only going to be...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: New testing lab for Tapestry Workshop @ SkillsMatter...
I'm once again partnering with SkillsMatter to teach my full Tapestry workshop. I've just finished up the materials for the new lab that covers testing of Tapestry components and applications. I'm...
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Bryan Pendleton: Dance your PhD finalists announced
Science magazine have announced the 4 finalists for this year's "Dance your Ph.D." contest.The dreaded question. "So, what's your Ph.D. research about?" You could bore them with an explanation. Or you...
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Tony Gentilcore: WebKit nightly builds now support the HTML5 async and defer script attributes. This makes it easier for web pages to load faster by downloading JavaScript without blocking other...
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JAM Software – SpamAssassin for Windows : ‘adapted for Windows by JAM Software’ — cool! Thanks Daniel (tags: windows spamassassin anti-spam software win32 jam-software)
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Mukul Gandhi: XSLT 2.0: using XSL keys in interesting ways
There's been an interesting debate on XSL-List recently about usage of XSLT keys (whether needed or not needed for XML nodes look-up via XSLT). The following xsl-list archive thread has details of...
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Michael McCandless: Lucene's indexing is fast!
Wikipedia periodically exports all of the content on their site, providing a nice corpus for performance testing. I downloaded their most recent English XML export: it uncompresses to a healthy 21 GB...
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Nick Kew: Secular Values
The pope warns against secular values. What does he mean? I just heard a discussion on the wireless, in which three participants pleaded ignorance, while a fourth interpreted it as materialism. Erm...
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Adrian Sutton: The Magnitude That Matters
I quite enjoyed reading Joe Duffy’s piece: The ‘premature optimization is evil’ myth, highlighting just how misused that Knuth quote often is. There’s a lot of good stuff that should always be...
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Bryan Pendleton: Rain!?
... I thought we would get our typical Bay Area Indian Summer before fall set it, but there's rain this weekend.It's been so cold and gray that my parents took a trip to England for the sunshine!...
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Grant Ingersoll: Tika In Action in MEAP
Jukka Zitting and Chris Mattmann’s Tika in Action is now available. I’ve added a link on the right in addition to the one here. Looks to be a good book for those who need an open source tool to...
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Ted Husted
Workgroup Sites - Part 3 -Windows Live Office GroupsIn June 2010, Microsoft revamped its Microsoft Live offerings to make better use of its SkyDrive online file storage system and Microsoft Web Apps...
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Bryan Pendleton: Odersky's paper on compilation techniques for Scala
Scala is the programming language developed by Martin Odersky, et.al. If you're not familiar with Scala, here's a good place to start.I recently made my way through Dubochet and Odersky's Compiling...
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Bryan Pendleton: Code Freeze!
Yesterday was a major code freeze date at my day job. In general, code freeze doesn't mean an awful lot to me; I'm a big fan of agile methods, in particular Continuous Integration (I consider Martin...
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Yoav Shapira: Israel trip, September 2010
Last week Alli and I came back from a great two-week vacation to Israel. We travel there at least once a year to visit my family. The trip is always a lot of fun, but this one was better than most. I...
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Yoav Shapira: Changing roles at work (HubSpot)
I am changing my role at HubSpot to focus less on day-to-day management, HR, and product-centric efforts, and more towards creating a "HubSpot platform" for internal and external developers to build...
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