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The National Dog Show was on NBC last night, and was a lot of fun to watch if you're a dog lover like me. It's great to see people...

The NYTimes had an article the other day reporting the planned liquidation of Hostess under Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Management decided to...

A couple weekends ago I took advantage of Microsoft's $40- Windows 8 offer, and have a spanking new operating system running on my wo...

I wrote a scala trait the other day with a "companion package" instead of the usual "companion object". I was pretty h...

Amazon web services' S3 REST API supports custom access log information by adding custom query string parameters beginning with ...

For some reason I was inspired today to post a comment on the NYTimes Bits bLog's post on the Oracle-Google lawsuit . I thought I didn...

I read Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography a couple months ago, and really enjoyed the read. One thing that surprised me - although I gu...

I recently wanted to setup port forwarding on an Ubuntu Linux server (AWS EC2) to redirect https traffic (port 443) to a Tomcat server lis...

I've been a big fan of the Guice dependency injection library for a while, but I missed support for session-scoped injection until I f...

I have this old yellow Kitchenaid blender that has been sitting in the cabinet collecting dust for the past year or so after the rubber cou...

I had a ridiculous battle with a set of .bat scripts that I wrote to launch java command line applications on Windows. I'm working on ...

I was lucky with my latest freelance contract that the clients were happy to build on littleware to implement some of their back-end servi...

The last month and a half has been a parade of mishaps and disasters. The morning of July 27 I was looking forward to my flight out to Cal...

The other day I listened to a short discussion on the PBS News Hour podcast about the proposed oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands m...

I got a little fired up about the debt ceiling nonsense, and decided to e-mail my Congressman, Mike Rogers . I always feel so empowered aft...

When I decided to implement a webapp browser for littleware's node database I began a debate with myself whether to implement the proje...

There must be a better way to do this, but one of the funny things I do is setup variables in Powershell for paths that I frequently navigat...

My blogging energy is way low these days, but I'm forcing myself to throw together a quick post - whipping myself like that crazy albi...

I just updated littleware's ivy repository with new versions of the core littleware artifacts. I completely reworked the way the asse...

My list of blogging topics is piling up, but I've been putting off my latest post trying to finish several littleware changes, then ...