Daily Archives: August 22, 2010

Net Neutrality

Recently a colleague sent me a link to an online petition regarding the concept of Net Neutrality being under threat by a recent deal between Verizon and Google.  http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=1234951 The dialog signals a prioritisation of internet traffic for the rich, … Continue reading

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Reading Other Peoples & your own old code

Old code is hard to read.  Even your own.  Its not uncommon 6 months down the track, to experience a bit of “what was I thinking when I wrote that?”.  Its one of the first things drummed into me by … Continue reading

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Embedding Tomcat 7 in your App

So what if you ship with a plain old Apache server just to run some aging PHP.  If you have an server app running all the time, according to this post, it looks like you can embed Tomcat, just like … Continue reading

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Strings and intern

Strings, yawn, boring.  They are kinda the bread and butter of our development but lets face it, we can take em for granted sometimes. So some neat tips from this blog post about Strings in Java. The most useful one … Continue reading

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