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I'm a big fan of Google Code where I host the littleware project. I've been playing around with gcode's issue tracker trying...

I think I finally have the blogger podcast thing working. To recap - I started by hosting my .mp3 media file with Google docs , and that w...

Ugh! I was pretty happy when I was able to setup a blogger based podcast with mp3 files served from Microsoft's sky drive , so I we...

If you're a frickjack like me, then you might believe that a JScrollPane only works with widgets like JTextArea that are specially ...

  What to do with 1/2 pound butter, 5/3 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, ... Good old Fannie Farmer !   I also accidentally uploaded thi...

I often enjoy listening to podcasts while I'm playing around with the computer. The java posse , TED , Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders...

I lost a few more hairs building mod_proxy for an existing Apache install. It turns out mod_proxy requires proxy_util.c on the apxs build ...

Before today when I wanted to add a web site's feed to Google Reader from Chrome I would "view source", find the feed URL, th...

A project we're working on at the library requires a DSpace repository webapp to cooperate with a custom data-submission webapp that...

Last week I finished reading Andrew Sorkin's Too Big To Fail . It was a great read! I was engrossed by the story of the events behind...

I just added browse and recycle functions to my powershell profile: Documents/WindowsPowershell/profile.ps1 . The browse function opens ...

Scala provides some great list processing API's, and it's easy to parallelize Scala's list processing with a java executor serv...

Today I finally wired up my frickjack.com domain configuration with GoDaddy to just redirect (via domain forwarding) to pages hosted on G...

This post is a copy of this google doc describing littleware's bootstrap process. I recently reworked the littleware bootstrap and...

I was happy the other day to find a quick solution to an authentication problem using java's authentication and authorization service (...

Scala dependent type exception I'm building a simple JSF-3 web application that implements backing beans in Scala 2.8 One bean incl...

I sometimes find myself thinking as I look back at life "Man! I was an idiot back then!" where "back then" might be te...

I enjoyed the webcasts Oracle published to outline its product strategy upon the approval of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems ...

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...