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let me just take a moment to say how awesome Subversion is . . .

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

Maybe it's because I've mostly used VSS in the past, but SVN is just so easy and awesome.  It was a breeze to setup and also get svnserve running, and now by using TortoiseSVN everything is just a right-click away from a commit, add, delete, etc.  I've just yet to find anything that makes me […]

The Ajax Gang Sign

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

To be thrown asynchronously! Let all the geek-gangstas at your office know how you roll!   Uploaded 28 Mar '05, 9.47pm PST by benchristen.

old websites never die . . .

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

 . . . they just get cached.

My Strengths

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Last weekend I read the book “Now, Discover Your Strengths” and took the online test to discover my Strengths.  The results were very accurate and I'm quite excited by them!  It's great to see verification of what I'd maybe guessed to be true.  And, good news, I think my strengths definitely align with the field […]

JAX-RPC SAAJ Memory Leak? JWSDP 1.4

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

I have identified what I think is a memory leak in the JWSDP 1.4, the SOAP client implementation that I am using in an application at work.  Doing a test of just repeatedly calling one method that makes a simple call to the server, I am able to see with OptimizeIt that over 100,000+ objects […]

Tivo HME SDK and Where's My TivoToGo?

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

I am eagerly awaiting TivoToGo to be rolled out to my box.  I signed up on the priority list a while back, but no updates yet!  I even ordered a DVD burner drive for my PC! So, something I can do in the meantime is start using the SDK!  Hopefully the TiVo user base can […]

The Curse of Innovation

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

Great!  You've created a new, cool application that enables your team to do X!  Everyone loves you for about a day, but then things change.  Now you have to support it.  Now you have to perform upgrades.  Now you have to appease people who are complaining that X takes too long (even though X wasn't […]

Playing with BlogShares

Friday, January 14th, 2005

just starting out with blogshares, and claiming my blog

Why Blogging is better than personal websites of the 90s

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

I was talking with a friend about my new found interests in blogging and they compared blogging to the early web filled with arcane personal web pages.  Well, I feel that there are certainly similarities (random people posting about random things, most of which, no one cares about), but, I do feel that blogging is […]

aggregate comment view in roller?

Friday, January 7th, 2005

New features for Roller — Group blogging would be great, especially in corporate/work environments where you might have a blog per project.  A work around we have used, is enabling a view of posts by all users to a certain category.  So, everyone would create a category for that project if they wanted to post […]