Year: 2008
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GWT In Practice
I occasionally review technical book manuscripts for a couple of publishing companies. I reviewed GWT In Practice by Robert T. Cooper and Charlie E. Collins published by Manning, which just came out. First off, it’s a great book, and if you’re working with GWT or want to work with GWT, I highly recommend it. Secondly,…
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Hiding jsessionid parameter from Google
If you’re running a website on JBoss you may discover that Google has indexed your pages with a jsessionid query parameter in the links. The Google crawl bot does not support cookies, therefore JBoss uses the jsessionid query parameter in order to maintain a session state without cookies. These query parameters can impact your Google…
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HowGoodIWas.com Beta Launch
The How Good I Was website has just launched it’s Friends and Family Beta. The company is not mine, but I did the development of the site. The published Goal: To deliver on-line and community services that provide social networking and media distribution capabilities targeted at the non-professional ex-athlete and their teams. Showcase your athletic…
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HowGoodIWas.com
This post is mostly to allow Google to index the site early, so the Google based search will work:) In four days HowGoodIWas.com will launch it’s friend’s and family beta. Check it out then, and send any feedback to [email protected].
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SPAM Filtering
I get a lot of SPAM. I’ve had the same e-mail address for 10 years, and I don’t hide it. In general, I’m very happy with a combination of spamassassin running on the server, and OS X Mail.app’s SPAM filtering on the client. In order to avoid losing false positives I have a Junk folder…
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Travel Gear
As part of putting off actually writing about the trip, a task which still seems far too monumental to be attacked successfully, I’m going extoll some of the great gear which I really appreciated during this trip. First is luggage. You can’t really travel without carrying something with you. I used my Tom Bihn Id…