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Options for giving
I won’t go as far as to say that the calendar system is arbitrary and there is no reason to follow it :-p, but I have to say that giving donations shouldn’t be limited to Christmas. So if are/get in a giving mood, here are some geeky organizations you could donate to: There is an…
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Making Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
I just remembered what a Prodigy fan I was. The old man :-p doesn’t like it, but that’s ok. I don’t like Tokyo Hotel either 🙂 And here is even more Prodigy music, curtesy of Grooveshark:
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TwitFeeder is not for Twitter only
The TwitFeeder has support for non-Twitter sources – crossposted from the TwitFeeder blog: The TwitFeeder uses the Twitter API to get the different bits and pieces of information needed to generate the enhanced RSS feed. However Twitter isn’t the only one exposing the API: Laconi.ca (now Status.Net) is an “Open source microblogging service” and it…
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Google Web Hosting alternatives
Google is one of the “big three” integrated web hubs on the internet offering many services in one place, most of them free. Of course everything has it price (nothing is truly free) and these offerings being free means that they don’t guarantee a very end-user friendly SLA. For example they recently retired Google Pages…
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A “Bob” story
If you are not familiar with the “Bob story” concept: I first heard about it on the Pauldotcom podcast, where Twitchy used to tell stories about how “Bob” went wardriving, created a fake AP and did other grayhat things. They may have taken the idea from somewhere, but this is where I’ve heard it first.…
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Launching The Twit Feeder
As the readers of the blog know, I’ve been slicing and dicing the Twitter RSS feed for some time. Finally I launched a free service which wraps all the improvements in one, easy to use and best of all, free (!) service: The Twit Feeder. Cross-Posted from The Twit Feeder blog: Efficiency is key for…
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Choosing a Java profiler
Recently I’ve been looking around for a Java profiler (since the two things you need for a successful performance tuning session are good data and clear targets). I’ll share the notes about my findings in the hope that they might be useful for someone. Quick disclaimer: don’t believe everything you read on the Internet! These…
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As if you need extra reasons for paranoia
As they say: just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean that you’re not being watched! Here are a couple of links which freaked me out recently: Warily, and with much trepidation – a blogpost about how one deleted his facebook settings because of privacy concerns. I do have a facebook page, but I only use…
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Don’t Yield to pressure?
or: does Thread.yield have its place in todays Java programs? I was profiling a rather old legacy codebase (since the first rule of performance optimization is “profile it” with the close second of “have clear goals in mind” – but that’s an other post) and – after optimizing the first few hotspots, Thread.yield appeared at…
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How to save/restore iptables rules on Ubuntu?
This might be an obvious thing to old Linux-heads out there, but it sure caught me off-guard, so there might be some use in spelling it out: iptables-save and iptables-restore do not actually save/load the iptables rules to/from an external file. You are responsible for redirecting the output of iptables-save to a file and modifying…