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adding your netflix queue via RSS
Posted by mep | Filed under java, tech
I’ve been messing with XSLT a good bit and decided I needed a small project to work some muscles to their fell extent. When i found that NetFlix offers a number of RSS feeds for their users, I decided to add my NetFlix Queue to my site.
I could have found a taglib and added a [...]
new espresso machine
Posted by mep | Filed under java, life
it’s with great sadness that I say that i have ‘retired’ my 10+ year old La Pavoni esressso machine. It has been a work horse for over a decade, but sadly, it’s seems to constantly be in the fritz. I’ll take it apart and try to get it back in prime condition over the next [...]
espresso machine back to working order
Posted by mep | Filed under Uncategorized, java, life
sadness reigned the house last week when i left my espresso machine on as i walked out the door for a day at the office. for the entire week, i had to rely on Starbucks for my morning latte.
Imagine the task of taking a Italian espresso machine apart and fixing it without an manual. The [...]
New work on the main site
Posted by mep | Filed under java, tech
I'm 'finishing' implementing the main site this weekend. It gives me something fun to do…and yet, development without a bunch of noise, as well as deadlines, is actually fun.
I've added my gpg key and cleaned up some html issues so far. On the schedule is getting jcaptcha on the contact page, flushing out [...]
The Spammers/Bots are here
Posted by mep | Filed under java, tech
I woke up this morning to find that spammers/bots where at work abusing the blog comment section.Thanks to Pebble's pebble.event.response.MarkPendingListener, that I just implemented, the comments anyone makes will go into a Pending state until I approve (or reject) them. It was about a 1 minute [...]
going to 64 – part II (final)
Posted by mep | Filed under java, tech
As predicted, Gentoo screams on the x86_64 chips (built from stage I). The issues are getting Oracle's DB and jdeveloper (and the required jdk's 1.4.2_04) installed.
Since it's a development machine, and I develop for a living, it's back to Centos.
Eclipse wanted to install 3.1 version for the x86_64 platform, but there are issues with GTK, [...]
going to 64 – part I
Posted by mep | Filed under java, tech
I have been pondering the move from the 32 bit x86 to the 64 bit version for about a year.
I have not liked the price point – but I finally caved and picked up a 64 bit version via AMD's product line. Out the door at Fry's (I hate that place) for just under [...]