Month: November 2006
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10MinuteMail.com hit digg.com’s front page last night
It’s filtered down a few pages off the front, but hey, front page of digg.com! Wow! Totally grassroots in about 4 hours. Now it’s on all kinds of little blogs and tech forums and other odd places. Over 100k hits in the last 18 hours. It performs very well. There’s very little cpu hit at…
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What’s up with SMTPS?
Let’s start with SMTP. Simple Mail Transport Protocol. This is how e-mail gets sent. This is how e-mail makes it from you, to your recipient. When you check your e-mail, you use POP or IMAP to get the e-mail from the server. But when you’re sending e-mail, you use SMTP. SMTP is how your mail…
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Index page issues when putting JBoss behind Apache
So, if you’re using Seam, you usually have xhtml files which represent the pages, and then the Seam servlet takes care of rendering them. When I setup my latest project, I changed the web.xml to switch from using page.seam to page.html, to mask the back-end technology. When I did this, I also deleted the seemly…
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PGP E-mail Encryption conceptual issue
I have a number of thoughts in mind, which will likely turn into posts, and they are all leading up to a bigger unified thought. This is one of them. PGP / GPG email encryption is a good thing. It’s a pretty secure system, and the public registries of public keys makes it easy to…
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My first Seam Application – 10MinuteMail
My first web application built using Seam is now live. It is called 10MinuteMail and you can see it at www.10MinuteMail.com. It gives you a temporary e-mail address, and lets you receive and reply to e-mail sent to that address. The e-mail address expires in 10 minutes (or more, you can extend it as you…
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Seam example project structure
For me, one of the hardest things about getting started with developing with Seam was getting a project setup that I could work with. The examples that ship with Seam only build within the whole Seam super-project, which doesn’t work for developing your own projects. Most of the other guides on setting up a project…