Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

I spent most of today debugging some performance problems we're having in our application. It's fun stuff, I really enjoy it. Lately it's been a lot of threading work with Swing which is a fairly interesting area to play in. It's amazing what kind of...

Over the past few weeks I've undertaken a bit of an experiment. The goal was simple enough, stop going to any notable news site (abcnews, cnn, cbc, espn, google news, etc.) and instead only receive their content via respective RSS feeds (click-throughs...

I was just about to go to bed when I got an email from the folks at Scrybe inviting me into their beta (I suspect I applied awhile back and they're just clearing through a backlog now). The launch details are here. Their blog is also here. I just logged...

I've been using the latest del.icio.us plugin for awhile with Firefox 2.x and have been quite impressed. Although my experiences have been largely positive I did have to start with a new account b/c my previous one suffered from poor tag choices (and...

Caught this over on techcrunch. I actually had the akismet wordpress plugin installed for a long time but hadn't gotten around to enabling it until now. I forgot I had a wordpress.com account and it needs a wordpress.com API key to function. Either...

Sam Ruby has a good overview of OpenID (wikipedia) and the steps required to start identifying yourself. I personally don't know much about it but I'm intrigued to learn more after reading some of the recent press about it. OpenID For...

From toysrus.com Great system. Very entertaining. Low learning curve. Virtual console has some good classic games. This is an okay system. First of all, it is very hard to use, and especially hard to get used too, especially if you have been using a...

I was originally planning on blogging about attracting top talent and the recent changes we've made to our hiring process....but I'm in the process of drinking a tasty home-made smoothie and thought my time would be better spent singing the virtues of the...

I had a few days off from work over the holidays and decided to do a bit of an investigation into Gavin King's new web framework, Seam. My recent background has predominantly been in the J2EE space (Spring + Hibernate 3.0/3.2) but fronted with a thick...

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