Internet

The .EU landrush fiasco

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Bob has a great post on what he calls the .EU landrush fiasco: What happens when you match an inept registry with crafty businessmen? The answer is a really…

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Development

Why RoR won't Become Mainstream

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Cédric has a great post on Why Ruby on Rails won't Become Mainstream. No bashing, just some very compelling reasons. Bravo!

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Internet

VeriSign: a Monopoly in the Making

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ICANN has approved a deal with VeriSign to continue manage the .COM registry. This is a very bad deal for everyone. Well, except VeriSign, of course. They wi…

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Personal

USPS Unstoppable Junk Mail

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We get most of our mail to a P.O. box, but there are a few things that we have no choice but to get at home. Our home mailbox is always stuffed with flyers,…

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Blog

Popular Links

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I've implemented a way to view the linkblog's Popular Links. The page and feeds list the most popular links in the last 24 hours. The lists are updated at le…

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Development

Quick HTTP POST request

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Have you ever wanted to quickly send a POST request to a HTTP server? It's pretty easy to do using curl. For example to send XML via a POST request, you coul…

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Java

Testing Private Methods

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I've been playing with TestNG for a few days now. I really like it. It makes me want to write more tests. I was wondering if there was a way to create a test…

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