Month: February 2008
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Should Developers Manage Copyright Like Photographers Do?
While fighting the forces pulling me out of bed this morning, I had an idea: would everyone benefit if copyright on source code was managed more like copyright on photographs? I think everyone would win, and no one would lose. I’d like to hear your thoughts as well. I am a Java developer/architect by day,…
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Oracle PL/SQL Loop to Update Fields with Periodic Commits
Have you ever had one of those moments where you’ve just completed importing 1.7 million user records from flat files into an normalized set of ATG Personalization tables, plus some custom tables, and you only then realize that the passwords from the old system, while in the compatible md5sum format, are all UPPERCASE, while ATG…
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ATG Cache Header Control Module
Many ATG application server static content, or semi-static content, from within the ATG application’s .war file. It is often much simpler to package CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Images, and other files in your web application than to try to manage them separately and deploy correctly in development and production instances. It is often desirable to set…
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Why use emacs instead of vi?
Butterfly mode of course!
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Search Engine Optimization
Optimizing sites for Google rankings isn’t a focus of mine, but is an inevitable factor that must be addressed when building any site. I’m no SEO expert, then again, neither are half of those who claim to be. The best thing you can do is to have your site be real, be useful, be focused…