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It's a big day for announcements and media. First, Apple launched the iPad ; which looks like it nearly lives up to the hype. Next, Ora...

I recently learned of a solution to a problem I've struggled with using java remote method invocation (RMI) to implement client-serve...

An embedded script engine is a great way to empower an application's users with the ability to customize and extend tools, and java...

I tried to map a network drive cross-domain over VPN on my Windows 7 laptop last night, but my laptop failed to authenticate with the file ...

Let's assume the following technology trends realize their potential over the next ten years. Cloud discovery services like Worldcat...

I work part time at a university library , so I think a little bit about the roles the library fulfills for the university and the cost th...

I attended a two hour rain barrel workshop hosted by the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service last weekend. The workshop started with a g...

I was disappointed, but not surprised by Mike Rogers' (Congressional representative for Albama's 3rd district) recent press relea...

I prefer muffins to pan cakes - I always burn the pan cakes. This recipe evolved from Fannie Farmer's muffin recipe. Ingredients: ...

I like Google code more and more the more I use it ... more. Why don't I have a vocabulary ? Anyway, I also like Mercurial, so combin...

It's like "Castaway", but there are zombies on the island, right? Tom Hanks all alone on this desert island, but with zombie...

I was thinking about arguments for and against the “public option” in health care reform. The argument in favor of a public option is that...

I've been playing around with Twitter and Facebook lately. I'm surprised how well these sites work as communication tools. A bun...

I watched Bill Marre the other night, and he took his usual jabs at religion and religious for inspiring terrorism, oppressing women and ot...

Just read a good NYTimes article about China's investment in green power. China established green energy regulations two years ago s...

I just setup my littleware code as a project on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/littleware/ . What a great site!...

I often design java interfaces with methods that return POJOs with read-only properties like the following. public interface Manager { ...

The more code I write the complexity of what I want to do increases, and the number of design variables increase.  I find that I have to des...

Happy 2009! I've almost got the OSGi+Guice based bootstrap of  my code running in a glassfish server - testing now to work through a fe...

Although I am the sole developer on most of the software projects I currently work on, I often haven in the back of my mind the steps that a...