A Useful Idea for a Swing EDT Aspect?

Jan

29

2007

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 perceived performance improvements you can make by simply making appropriate ...
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Conscious decision to get my news via RSS (and only RSS)

Jan

22

2007

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 to stories would still obviously take me to an external site). It really ...
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Thoughts on Scrybe – Latest Web 2.0ish Calendar(?) Tool

Jan

16

2007

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 in and played around with ...
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General Discussions

Firefox & the del.icio.us Plugin

Jan

15

2007

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 del.icio.us didn’t provide much in the way of batch modifications at the ...
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Akismet : Getting rid of blog spam

Jan

7

2007

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 way, it’s active now and right away caught 30 comment spams. I’ve ...
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Simple OpenID

Jan

5

2007

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 Non-Superusers OpenID Screencast I’ve claimed my identity and this blog on technorati using it’s ...
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General Discussions

Competing Wii Comments

Jan

5

2007

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 classic shape controller beforehand. The graphics are okay, but what could ...
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The Magic Bullet: I Love It

Jan

4

2007

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 Magic Bullet. Actually my buddy Glenn just blogged about making soup so ...
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Seam’ing for Christmas

Jan

2

2007

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 Swing application as opposed to the typical web application. ...
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Which Superhero Are You?

Jan

2

2007

The Flash The Flash 85% Iron Man 80% Green Lantern 70% Hulk 65% Spider-Man 60% Catwoman 60% Superman 60% Robin 45% Wonder Woman 43% Supergirl 43% Batman 30% Fast, athletic and flirtatious. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz
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