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A Note On Java Culture And A RESTlet Tutorial

My first real experience with web development was based on PHP. I opted to learn it over Perl because it was more popular at the time and its syntax is very similar to C. One of the things I liked most about PHP was the excellent manual on the official website. The tutorial at the [...]

JavaScript Via Java On The Back Of A Rhino

I have been formulating a project with a couple of at odds requirements: It must interface with an Oracle database It should be easily extensible via a language others wouldn’t mind Requirement #2 leads me to JavaScript, it being the most common programming language available. So, I could do this project as a Node.js based [...]

RE: The Pew Pew Manifesto

Ben Simpson made a post to Twitter a few days ago about an article that advocates avoiding writing applications directly in JavaScript. I reponded that the article is worthless, and Mr. Simpson wanted to know which points, specificially, I think are “hogwash.” There a few reponses in the article’s comments section that highlight my simple [...]

WinLN – A Windows Symbolic Link Manager

Prices on SSDs have been dropping fast lately. I’ve been wanting one for my gaming computer for some time, and one of the recent deals was very acceptible to me. Which is to say, I just added a new 250GB SSD to my gaming computer. Since I could fill up 250GB with all of my [...]

Prolonging An SSD’s Life By Mitigating Writes

Warning: The following details a process that is no longer supported. I do not yet have a replacement. (2012 November 13) Last weekend, I updated my HTPC with all new hard drives and software. I had been putting it off because of an incompatibility between my IR receiver and the latest kernel drivers. But a [...]