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Just installed ubuntu 11.10 on my home media center. So far it's much improved from 11.04. There's a heap of nice new features and it just seems a lot more polished. Thank God they finally got rid of the old gnome-login system. There are a few little issues I've encoutered, but there's a good …
After confronting the fear of bricking my phone, I finally got the guts to root and flash the rom on my HTC Desire. It's been running Android 2.2 Froyo for most of it's life and with the HTC Sense UI it's been a delight. It came with Android 2.1 out of the box and was updated to 2.2 via the …
Every now and then I get my hands dirty with a bit of shell scripting. Using bash, it's possible to do some quite powerful things in relation to system administration. However, as I'm not doing it all the time, I often find myself scratching my head for the correct syntax. While searching for …
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An interesting interview with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of facebook. http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/mark-zuckerberg/
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I just watched the SpringOne keynote presented by Rod Johnson and thought I'd share the link. It's a good summary of what spring is doing at the moment and goes into quite a bit of detail about some old and some new projects. Enhancements to Roo are always welcome and of particular interest to …
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Just a quick note to say GWT 2.1 has been released. It comes with a bunch of great enhancements which are detailed in the release notes below: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/ReleaseNotes.html
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Aside from putting together a good software design, I also like to do a bit of cooking. I find it enjoyable and relaxing and a good context change from being on the computer all the time. I recently found this recipe for lentil dahl and have told some friends that I'd share it with them. I …
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This was a really interesting session presented by Farang Kassaie, lead platform architect, eBay, inc. Farang covered in great detail some best practices for identity management and authentication in a distributed environment. Applications are basically built on a layer of services in the cloud. …
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Jaroslav Tulach, Oracle, NetBeans Platform Architect Anton Epple, Eppleton, Consultant Zoran Sevarac, University of Belgrade , Phd student All of the presenters at this BOF were Net Beans developers. They were demonstrating modularity patterns used in Net Beans and covered the standard mantra …
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The openJDK BOF was interesting. It was getting into some pretty low level discussion on building and modifying the JDK, so it was a little out of my area of focus. I did pick up a few interesting things. The Open JDK has only 4 or 5 libraries that are different from the commercial JDK. They …
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