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 »
Ship Party
A “ship party” is a celebration held when your product is ready to ship. Apparently the ones at Microsoft get pretty wild.
Facebook “Privacy”
More and more people are saying that you should log out of Facebook as soon as you are done. If you stay logged in and go to another site with… Read more »
This is the world we will live in if net neutrality fails
In his post on net neutrality, Otaku-kun includes an image that is so hilarious (an unfortunately so plausible) that I couldn’t resist copying it:
Bad Code Offsets
In a development of world-shaking importance, Alex Papadimoulis announces a new technique that can totally eliminate the problem of bad code.
FTC Blogging Guidelines
The new FTC blogging guidelines are supposedly intended to go after the big commercial astroturfing campaigns, where publicity agencies pay large number of bloggers and tweeters to push commercial products…. Read more »
Original aLinks 2.0 code
I got a request for Sean Hickey’s original aLinks code. Here it is Download …but be warned that it has some serious bugs. However it includes features that are not… Read more »
The USA as a Third-World Country
In The Quiet Coup Simon Johnson, former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says that the current financial crisis resembles on a larger scale the sort of messes… Read more »
.NET Dictionary with Case-Insensitive Comparison
How do you create a IDictionary that does case-insensitive key matches. There are a number of solutions posted on the web, but none of them seem quite correct. The following… Read more »