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For my latest work project, I have been using
Spring. I really like working
with Spring. It is straightforward and non-invasive. I am using
serveral pieces including the WebMVC. My code has never been this clean.
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Laurel's Dinner short story is available. I really
liked it!
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t2t 6.0 has been released. It will natively read Excel
and OpenOffice files. It also includes several bug fixes; all users should upgrade.
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BlueHost now hosts this site. They have a large number
of features.
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I have replaced Toast with two freeware open-source
alternatives: Max for ripping and
Burn for burning.
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I have been having problems with iTunes freezing between songs since I upgraded to 7.5. I
found the fix on
an apple discussion board. It works great now, back to normal.
I bought a new digital camera, a
Canon PowerShot SD1000. It is a
super-compact camera.
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We just upgraded to Leopard. No problems with the upgrade.
Everything seems to be working ok, except for Toast and
OSXPlanet. I will be upgrading both of those applications
once they are Leopard ready.
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We are going to see Genesis tonight, tonight, tonight.
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We have switched ISPs; we now use Verizon. So far so good, nice stable DSL connection. Email addresses have
not changed.
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HBO is making George R. R. Martin's A Song
of Ice and Fire books into a series!! Variety has an article
about it.
I've been searching for several flights over the past few weeks. I highly recommend Kayak; it is a great
meta-search engine. Great results and great site!!
splice version 1.8 has been released.
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t2t version 5.2 has been released. I added --equals command line option; it ensures
that all of the rows have the same number of columns.
splice version 1.7 has been released. Another filler bug is fixed.
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I now use Picasa to host some of my pictures, a nice site from
Google.
We saw Love recently in Vegas. It
is at The Mirage. Great show, awesome music.
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I now use Flickr to host some of my pictures. It is very user friendly site.
I have been using Java 5 a little recently, and I am not convinced
Generics is a needed addition. It really complicates
things.
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splice version 1.5 has been released. It finally solves the additional information
bug with CD labels. Also --slim command line option was added; it informs splice that all of the
CD labels will be for slim jewel cases.
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I have been using Digester quite a bit at work. It
is a great library for easily parsing XML, but there is practically no documentation or it is wrong. Most online
examples are dated or just don't work.
I've been playing with Ajax
a little. I got a simple application to work. It is very cool.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code is a very humorous article.
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splice version 1.4 has been released. It fixes issues with boolean
command line options. A man page and a makefile are now provided.
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t2t version 5.0 has been released. XHTML support has been added. A man page
has been created and makefile for easy installation.
I decided to create a man page for t2t; it is more intuitive to do a
man t2t than t2t --help, but I don't know nroff. So I looked
for a html2man converter. Could not find one. I did find an
HTML2Pod Perl module and a
pod2man. So I have simple HTML
that is converted first into POD and then into nroff; it works better than I thought it would.
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splice version 1.3.0 has been released. It fixes an issue with inner title printing. The
"title" command line option was also added.
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t2t version 4.3.6 has been released, a very small bug fix. I have begun working on
t2t version 5.0; it will support XHTML.
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Saw The Stones last week at PNC Park. Our
first Stones concert. The Stones are definitely a band that is best enjoyed live; they put
on a great show.
I am working a Java Mock Object library for
unit testing custom tags. At work I have custom tags that will be used across several projects,
and I am unable to test them without using them in a project. This is very different than
Tag Unit, which requires a container. I wanted to
be able to test my custom tags outside of a container.
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t2t version 4.32 has been released.
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I've been playing a lot of blackjack online recently, no not for money. Mostly I've been playing
at Yahoo! but I've also played at Stanford Wong's site
Blackjack Info.
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We just got back from an incredible Alaskan cruise. Pictures
are available. Great glaciers, humpback whales (hard to see in the pics), and black bears.
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I recently bought the new Cake album. I have all of their
CDs. Am I the only one tempted to take 4 of their 5 discs and burn them onto 2 CDs? 36 minutes
is really short for a CD!!
t2t version 4.30 has been released.
I bought the Blackfield self titled CD from the
iTunes Music Store. Great album. I like more than
most of the Porcupine Tree catalog.
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The left-hand links is now a menu. It is a major improvement. The basis of the menu code
is from Eric Meyer's excellent book, More CSS with Eric Meyer.
I am currently reading the
The Pragmatic Programmer, great
book on the art of software development.
I am slowing working on the next version of splice.
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