Internet

VeriSign: a Monopoly in the Making

1 min read

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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Internet

Please, put Digg out of its misery...

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I dig Digg. Great idea, nice enough implementation. But seriously what are Kevin and cohorts thinking? I understand they want to expand beyond tech news. Gre…

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Java

Erik's Pulse: 2006-02-28

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Erik's weekly column published in the Javalobby Newsletter.

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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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Personal

I am Hal Jordan

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You are Green Lantern Green Lantern 80% The Flash 60% Iron Man 60% Batman 50% Hulk 50% Superman 40% Supergirl 40% Catwoman 40% Robin 38% Spider-Man 30% Wonde…

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Java

TestNG Generator for IDEA

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TestNG Generator is an IDEA plugin, based on Alex Nazimok's JUnit Generator. It is a very simple plugin that generates a TestNG test class skeleton for all o…

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Java

Crawlers Detection in Java

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As I was testing my link redirector Servlet for the linkblog, Rick asked what I was doing about search engine crawlers. I told him I was inspecting the user-…

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