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Apache Wicket MarkupNotFoundException
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Review: The Java Virtual Machine Specification: Second Edition (Java 2 Platform)
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Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)
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(Transitive) Dependency Hell (In Java) Part 1
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Apache Wicket [In Action]: A Review and How It Relates to the Java World
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Progress on Tech Resolutions of 2013
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A Skill that All Technical People Can Use (System administrators, Database Administrators, Developers, etc)
A Few Signs That Your Project May Be In Some Serious Trouble
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Make Mobile Phone Unlocking Legal Again
Rant on Web Interfaces: Quick Context Menus
Whats wrong with Wikis (Well One Aspect)
Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In
Don't trust your Technical Documentation Staff to write Quickstart guides and Tutorials, Hire a Professional.
Interactive Customer Service: How to fix Airlines' Broken Phone Service
How to get rid of Screen Scrapers from your Website
How difficult is it to sell an open source solution?
"Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?
"10 Ten Reasons why You're Programming Wrong" -- How to bore/annoy your audience
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Project: 404Browser
Why your PodCast May Irritate It's Listeners

 ruby (5)

Git hooks and Pre-commit hooks.
Need to install The PG (Postgres GEM) via Bundler?
Awesome Projects That I've found Recently
Having difficulty getting your NGinix service working on the Digital Ocean install instructions?
What Have I been up to lately? Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, IO, Haskell, and Prolog Oh MY!

 scala (13)

Unexpected Scala Functions: groupMap
New G8 Template: Kafka Streams
I made a new thing: serialization-checker
I built a Tetris Engine in Scala
What have I been learning lately/What Have I been reading lately (March/April 2018)
You can Either Try or not (Scala: Try, Either)
Some of the things that I’ve been up to in the last few months (March-June)
From "The Zen Of Akka" By Konrad Malawski: Protip: Logging Formatting
Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process
A few things that I would like to see in Docker
The Scalafication of Java Libraries
How I got my Bot Banned by Twitter
What Have I been up to lately? Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, IO, Haskell, and Prolog Oh MY!

 scalalikejdbc (2)

Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process
How I got my Bot Banned by Twitter

 security (2)

Who would benefit from a TrueCrypt API?
Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)

 self improvement (10)

Some of the things that I’ve been up to in the last few months (March-June)
Kegerators
Protip of the Day: Always Delay your Email From Being Sent
Whats on your bookshelf?
This Week I Learned [19 May 2013 Edition]
The Problem with Resolutions
Getting Over Writer’s Block
Progress on Tech Resolutions of 2013
Things I would like to Learn/Experience/Improve-Upon This Year [2013]
I’m a student, what [language, framework, API, concept] should I learn?

 setup (2)

Having difficulty getting your NGinix service working on the Digital Ocean install instructions?
Don't let the User Fail

 soap (2)

Project: Financial Stock Strategy and Simulator
The Linguistics of Webservices

 social (2)

Games that you can play over Zoom/Remotely
Kegerators

 software (44)

Response to: Quality vs Quantity and the Ceramic Art Students
In Support of Complex Software
I really like Docker
Awesome Projects That I've found Recently
I don't like Virtual Machines
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: Postgres
First Thoughts: “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel
An Easier Way to Deal with Thread.sleep
Installing Maven on Centos 5 or 6/RHEL
My response to “7 Open Source Projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid)”
Don't let the User Fail
Review: "What Compsci textbooks don't tell you: Real world code sucks"
PSA: Software Development Tip: Clean out your Code Base
A Few Signs That Your Project May Be In Some Serious Trouble
Review: The Java Virtual Machine Specification: Second Edition (Java 2 Platform)
Features I'd like to see Added in Wikis
New Repository ogg2mp3
In Support Of Maven
Rant on Web Interfaces: Quick Context Menus
Some of the Articles/Links/Video That I found Interesting in the Last Week
Whats wrong with Wikis (Well One Aspect)
Really Cool Things I've Learned This Week (R, Random Numbers, Java, Hypervisiors, and fan maintenance)
Part 2 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Motivation
SSH Mastery, A Book Review
Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In
Don't trust your Technical Documentation Staff to write Quickstart guides and Tutorials, Hire a Professional.
Interactive Customer Service: How to fix Airlines' Broken Phone Service
New Equipment and Switching Workstations
How difficult is it to sell an open source solution?
APIs: A Strategy Guide
"Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?
My first attempt at open source: PageRecommender
Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]
Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered
Lost the Passion for Software Development?
Technical Writing for Programmers
Suggestions for Authors of Technical Books
Trends with Low Powered Clients [Tablets, and Smartphones]
CrossOver Linux Professional
What Have I been up to lately? Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, IO, Haskell, and Prolog Oh MY!
Immutable Objects (Article 1 of 3)
Things I Wish Existed a Long Time ago: Unit Test Reporting
Fixing Classpath Issues with JasperReports, J2EE, and Maven
What's to come

 spock (2)

Notes: Using Betamax in Grails (2.4.x)
Things I've been Learning This Week (13 April 15)

 ssh (6)

Things I’ve learned so far this week (6 Dec)
Secure Services - It's not just for REST or SOAP anymore
Part 2 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Motivation
Part 1 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Automation
SSH Mastery, A Book Review
New Equipment and Switching Workstations

 ssh-copy-id (4)

Part 2 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Motivation
Part 1 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Automation
SSH Mastery, A Book Review
New Equipment and Switching Workstations

 stackoverflow (2)

Weirdness with GORM and Inheritance
Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In

 svn (3)

Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)
Init.d Script for codeBeamer MR
Some of the Articles/Links/Video That I found Interesting in the Last Week

 systemd (2)

Using Pipewire and Low volume in Kodi drove me through a dark rabbit hole
Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process

 talks (5)

New Repository: Reactive Summit 2018 Notes
Refactoring the Monolith (A CJUG Lightning Talk)
No Fluff Just Stuff October 2016/Chicago
Video Posted: "I didn't know that about Groovy!" (Chicago JUG 3 June)
I gave a technical talk and so should you

 tdd (2)

Are all technical books dry and boring?
Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]

 technical (32)

Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process
I really like Docker
I gave a technical talk and so should you
I don't like Virtual Machines
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: Postgres
First Thoughts: “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel
Installing Maven on Centos 5 or 6/RHEL
Who would benefit from a TrueCrypt API?
Review: "What Compsci textbooks don't tell you: Real world code sucks"
A Skill that All Technical People Can Use (System administrators, Database Administrators, Developers, etc)
Part 1 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Automation
SSH Mastery, A Book Review
How to get rid of Screen Scrapers from your Website
The Linguistics of Webservices
APIs: A Strategy Guide
"Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?
"10 Ten Reasons why You're Programming Wrong" -- How to bore/annoy your audience
My first attempt at open source: PageRecommender
Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]
Well That Was Silly Of Me, Issues with Sed....
Regular Expressions Tester
A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have
Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered
I’m a student, what [language, framework, API, concept] should I learn?
Lost the Passion for Software Development?
Technical Writing for Programmers
What Have I been up to lately? Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, IO, Haskell, and Prolog Oh MY!
Immutable Objects (Article 1 of 3)
Things I Wish Existed a Long Time ago: Unit Test Reporting
Fixing Classpath Issues with JasperReports, J2EE, and Maven
Why Data Visualization is the Wrong Solution and How to Fix It
What's to come

 technology (23)

I don't like Virtual Machines
Protip of the Day: Always Delay your Email From Being Sent
Why your PodCast May Irritate It's Listeners
Why I'll buy more Logitech Wireless mice
This Week I Learned [19 May 2013 Edition]
Apache Wicket [In Action]: A Review and How It Relates to the Java World
Progress on Tech Resolutions of 2013
Part 1 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Automation
Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In
Don't trust your Technical Documentation Staff to write Quickstart guides and Tutorials, Hire a Professional.
Interactive Customer Service: How to fix Airlines' Broken Phone Service
How difficult is it to sell an open source solution?
"Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?
"10 Ten Reasons why You're Programming Wrong" -- How to bore/annoy your audience
My first attempt at open source: PageRecommender
Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered
I’m a student, what [language, framework, API, concept] should I learn?
Lost the Passion for Software Development?
Suggestions for Authors of Technical Books
Trends with Low Powered Clients [Tablets, and Smartphones]
What Have I been up to lately? Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, IO, Haskell, and Prolog Oh MY!
Fixing Classpath Issues with JasperReports, J2EE, and Maven
Selling Technology Solutions to the Classroom

 testing (13)

Response to: Quality vs Quantity and the Ceramic Art Students
Notes: Using Betamax in Grails (2.4.x)
Things I've been Learning This Week (13 April 15)
First Thoughts: “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel
Pastebin for HTTP Requests.
Apache Wicket [In Action]: A Review and How It Relates to the Java World
A Few Signs That Your Project May Be In Some Serious Trouble
The Pitfalls of Testing
Don't trust your Technical Documentation Staff to write Quickstart guides and Tutorials, Hire a Professional.
"Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?
Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]
A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have
Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered

 tomcat (2)

Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)
Fixing Classpath Issues with JasperReports, J2EE, and Maven

 tomcat7 (2)

In Support Of Maven
Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)

 tools (13)

Apache Wicket [In Action]: A Review and How It Relates to the Java World
Two Issues I have With IntelliJ: Inconsistent building, and GUIs
New Repository ogg2mp3
In Support Of Maven
Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)
Things I would like to Learn/Experience/Improve-Upon This Year [2013]
Massive IntelliJ Sale
Really Cool Things I've Learned This Week (R, Random Numbers, Java, Hypervisiors, and fan maintenance)
Part 1 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Automation
New Equipment and Switching Workstations
"Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?
Regular Expressions Tester
A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have

 trains (5)

Ins and outs of the Japanese Rail Pass
Tips on Traveling to Hong Kong
Somethings I learned about the Train System in Europe
Should you buy a rail pass in Europe?
Train Stations

 travel (10)

Ins and outs of the Japanese Rail Pass
Tips on Traveling to Hong Kong
What I learned from my trip to Costa Rica and Panama
What Did I do this Week? (26 March)
Somethings I learned about the Train System in Europe
Some of the Best and Worse Things of Hotels
Things I would like to Learn/Experience/Improve-Upon This Year [2013]
Tips for Travelling (Updated 22 Nov)
The saying “Foreign Carriers are better than domestic” Sounds True until you try Lufthansa.
Train Stations

 troubleshooting (3)

Using Pipewire and Low volume in Kodi drove me through a dark rabbit hole
Installing ArchLinux on an Asus UX31A?
Things I learned a week or so ago

 try (2)

You can Either Try or not (Scala: Try, Either)
Some of the things that I’ve been up to in the last few months (March-June)

 twitter (2)

How I got my Bot Banned by Twitter
Spring Security OAuth- The missing Instructions

 twitter4j (2)

Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process
How I got my Bot Banned by Twitter

 unittesting (7)

Git hooks and Pre-commit hooks.
First Thoughts: “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel
A Few Signs That Your Project May Be In Some Serious Trouble
My first attempt at open source: PageRecommender
Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]
A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have
Things I Wish Existed a Long Time ago: Unit Test Reporting

 web development (2)

Weirdness with GORM and Inheritance
Apache Wicket [In Action]: A Review and How It Relates to the Java World

 webservices (3)

How to get rid of Screen Scrapers from your Website
The Linguistics of Webservices
APIs: A Strategy Guide

 wicket (3)

Apache Wicket MarkupNotFoundException
Debugging/Depedency Issue with Maven
Things I would like to Learn/Experience/Improve-Upon This Year [2013]

 wiki (2)

Features I'd like to see Added in Wikis
Whats wrong with Wikis (Well One Aspect)

 work (2)

Part 2 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Motivation
Part 1 of 2: How To Make Your Life Easier As A Tech Worker (IT/Software Engineering/System Administrator): Automation

 writing (2)

Following Up on 'New Adventures', the progress so far
Getting Over Writer’s Block

 writting (2)

"I wanted to like _______, but...."
Technical Writing for Programmers