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CharJUG presentation on J2ME Technologies

Posted on February 18, 2005 by Cory Foy

Last night we had a great presentation at the Charlotte Java User’s Group meeting on J2ME technologies by Chris Clark of MobileHWY, LLC. I posted the presentation up over on the CharJUG site for anyone interested.

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“Your Request is Processing”

Posted on February 4, 2005 by Cory Foy

The current project I am working on had a problem. The mobile users who were accessing the app were getting server 500 errors. But not from us, from the carrier’s proxy server. It seems our requests were taking too long, and the carrier’s proxy was just giving up. The only way to remedy this was…

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Decompressing JAR File using Cygwin

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Cory Foy

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.

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Spongebob lives on a pineapple under the sea and is gay – CNN

Posted on January 21, 2005 by Cory Foy

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…

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Email Honeypots

Posted on January 13, 2005 by Cory Foy

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,…

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Creating a threaded comment generator with XSL

Posted on November 23, 2004 by Cory Foy

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…

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Command line scanning

Posted on November 22, 2004 by Cory Foy

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…

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Method Attributes for Value Objects

Posted on November 20, 2004 by Cory Foy

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…

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