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I coded up a little 511 app to help track the duration and period of labor contractions. Childbirth extends over several hours for most wo...

One of Scala's fun features is its lazy list Stream class. I guess for a Haskell programmer a lazy list is not a big deal, but it...

I joined the community of annoying smartphone people with the purchase of my Motorola Atrix HD Android phone. I'm very happy with t...

I just upgraded the scala install on my laptop from 2.9.x to the latest 2.10.0 release candidate, and was depressed to discover that brok...

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...