Pretty straightforward tip – if you have a jar file you want to decompress, don’t have WinZip, but do have Cygwin, just rename the file with a .zip extension and use unzip in Cygwin to decompress it.
Spongebob lives on a pineapple under the sea and is gay – CNN
This morning’s breaking news: SpongeBob SquarePants is gay and lives under the ocean on a pineapple. At least that’s the impression from this CNN article. Choice quote: “The makers — the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation — say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity. But at least two Christian activist groups say…
Email Honeypots
Securityfocus just published a fascinating article about Email honeypots. Basically the just of it is that a site publishes a page that contains a unique email address and a contract specifying the terms of use for that address, and that those addresses can not be harvested. If a robot comes along and takes the address,…
Creating a threaded comment generator with XSL
I got an email from a friend of mine who is building a BBS app that he wants to have threaded comments. Basically: – This is the top post – This is the reply to the top – This is the reply to the reply He’s using classic ASP, and was looking for a way…
Command line scanning
The other day I get to work and realize I left a paper at the house that I need to have that morning. I can’t just print out a new one because it’s a document that can’t just be printed (like a check). Scanning it in is out of the question because the scanner we…
Method Attributes for Value Objects
The current project I’m working on interfaces with a third-party screen-scraping robot. Actually, lots of them, it could be close to a thousand by the time all is said and done. The challenge was to create some sort of usable interface between the value structures the robot returns and the actual business objects that make…