Category: General
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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. Iād like to hear your thoughts as well. I am a Java developer/architect by day,…
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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…
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Comcast Cable Modem
I’ve been having issues with my cable modem rebooting itself multiple times a day for the past month or so. The Comcast techs can’t figure out why. I’ve tried a new modem, router attached, router off, different wall outlets, different cables, etc… My setup has been the same for about two years, and then all…
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A New Year is upon us
What are you looking forward to for 2008? Any new or upcoming technologies? Anything you’ve resolved to learning or exploring this year? I’d love to hear what you are looking forward to this year. For myself, I am looking forward to doing more Seam development. My ATG day-job has been eating a lot of my…
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Apache Proxy & Making Things Look Nice
I recently setup a dev/build server with Jira, Confluence, Hudson, ATG (with two web apps and the atg admin), Oracle (with web admin), and Postgres (with web admin). I’m running everything independantly, and everything is listening on it’s own high number port. This makes the URLs ugly, and finding what you want tricky. I used…