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The Cookie Militia

The Cookie Militia

By barneyb on March 22, 2009

Saw this on pictureisunrelated.com and had to share:

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Open Pandora

By barneyb on March 20, 2009

Based on several suggestions after my last post, I gave OpenPandora another try.  So far it's been pretty stable and handles the new player layout correctly.  Nice to have my keyboard shortcuts back, though it does occasionally throw up "do you want to debug this error" dialogs (from Visual Studio, I'm guessing?).  But working well [...]

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Pandora Bookmarklet

By barneyb on March 18, 2009

Ever since Pandora prevented accessing the miniplayer directly a few months ago, I've been using a little bookmarklet to fake it.  Set http://pandora.com/ as my IE homepage (about the only thing I use IE for) and put the bookmarklet in my links bar to click immediately after launch.  Net result: a perfectly sized window, hiding [...]

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HTTP is an API

By barneyb on March 17, 2009

Ray Camden posted an interesting article over on InsideRIA about expanding short urls using jQuery and ColdFusion.  After reading the article, I thought he was overcomplicating things somewhat by relying on the url shortening services' APIs to do the lookups.  Yes, that's what APIs are for, but for this case, HTTP happens to be a [...]

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Spring 2 "scope" goodness for ColdSpring

By barneyb on March 17, 2009

In Spring 1.2 (and ColdSpring, which emulates it), you have the "singleton" attribute, which was a boolean flag for whether a bean is a singleton (the default) or a prototype (instantiated afresh for every getBean call).  If you've used Spring 2.0+, you've probably come across the "scope" attribute, which supersedes the "singleton" attribute, and allows [...]

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Project Euler Test Harness

By barneyb on March 5, 2009

Project Euler is a collection of mathematics/computer science problems, as you probably already know.  I've solved almost 50 of them so far, and I've developd a collection of utilities to make my job easier.  Some of them (factorization routines, prime generators, etc.) I'm not going to share as they are fundamental to solving certain problems.  [...]

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A Groovy Letdown

By barneyb on March 2, 2009

I'm a huge fan of Groovy, but it's major downside drove over me like a bus this evening.  What's that, you say?  Performance, of course.  Runtime "stuff" necessarily happens at runtime, and therefore affects performance.  Does this matter in most cases?  No, absolutely not.  In general it's far cheaper to buy hardware than to employ [...]

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My Dinner

By barneyb on March 2, 2009

Like most things, cooking is usually better done simply.

5 rashers of thick bacon
1 large sweet onion
1/2 green pepper
2 stalks celery
1 still-warm baguette
1 box rice pilaf (yeah, I know)

Put on some music (Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for me), and pour a glass of wine (but not the stuff I [...]

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Hiking in the Gorge

By barneyb on March 1, 2009

Sunday is usually the day I get up and do laundry, because the only other time I have to do it is while the kids are sleeping.  They probably don't care, but laundry at bedtime bugs the hell out of me, so I try not to do it.  Today, however, was going to be different.  [...]

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