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More thoughts on Orca

Everyone seems to be jumping on the story of the Romney campaign’s “Orca” debacle. But it seems to me that this is not really a new story. It’s a story… Read more »

The Romney campaign’s great IT failure

Ars Technica has a great analysis of “Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown.” Regardless of your political views, if you are involved in any large IT project this is… Read more »

Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time in Java

You might think this would be simple but I actually spent a fair amount of time last week tracking down some confusing bugs. The problem is that the official documentation… Read more »

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to… Read more »

Evil Password Change

..or at least an extremely secure password change method. (Actual production code.) UPDATE: It’s hard to believe that this code isn’t malicious, but it’s just possible that it was put… Read more »

Parsing ISO 8601 Date Format in Java

These are dates in a format like “2010-05-17T09:30:47-04:00” optionally including date, time and time zone, which are commonly found in XML documents. In .NET you can just use DateTime.Parse(), but… Read more »

Solving Port Conflicts in Windows

Suppose that you start a server application like JBoss and get an error message like this one: 14:13:51,561 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Start: name=jboss.remoting:protocol=rmi,service=JMXConnectorServer state=Create mode=Manual requiredState=Installed java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port… Read more »

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