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My name is Aaron Johnson and I created this blog both for me (mostly) and sometimes you. I've been saving mydeliciouspinboard.in links here and blogging since 2002. During the week (and at night and some weekends and well.. most of the time), I work in engineering at Jive Software. When I'm not working, I'm hanging out with my amazing wife, ourdinosaurStar Wars loving son and four chickens in the burbs outside of Portland, Oregon.See Also
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Monthly Archives: August 2003
J2ME Recipe Browser
As an exercise, I wrote up a J2ME client for Karensrecipes.com. As I mentioned a couple days ago, it sends HTTP requests to a servlet to receive a list of recipes as XML, and then (given a specific recipe), sends … Continue reading
Posted in J2ME, Mobile Devices, XML
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my moblog
Proof that I can put up crappy pictures of stuff that probably doesn’t interest you in the least. Check it out now. All pics taken with the 3650.
Posted in Mobile Devices
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Amazon webservice newsletter highlights
Amazon’s latest Web Services Newletter includes a couple items of note: · Amazon Web Services Watch — the “… the cream of the crop from the Amazon Developer’s Forum” · From the aforementioned Web Services Watch newsletter, WebSphere 5.02 Web … Continue reading
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NAnt
I mentioned a couple days ago that my current project is based on a C# and ASP.NET. I don’t have access to Visual Studio (should I try to get it? is it worth it?) so I’ve been using the Improv … Continue reading
Posted in .NET
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Parsing XML in J2ME
Spent a couple hours tonight working on a MIDP client for the recipe site. Initially I tried serving up pipe delimited plain text (ie: response.setContentType(“text/plain”);) and then parsing that using the J2ME classes, but then I saw the light that … Continue reading
RSS Tutorial on Java.sun.com
Dave Winer points to an excellent RSS tutorial on java.sun.com. It features a “… JSP Tag Library to be used by anybody with a basic understanding of RSS, JavaServer Pages, and HTML.”
Posted in J2EE
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Alternative Uses for RSS
At work we use a homemade bug tracking system I built a couple years ago during a slow month. Although the code isn’t exactly stellar, it works pretty well and most importantly, people actually use it(!). My biggest beef with … Continue reading
Posted in XML
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Logging in C#
I wrote up a very simple C# class that provides logging for C# applications since the C# Logger on sourceforge is still in alpha (and doesn’t appear to be active) and the .NET framework doesn’t seem to provide normal text … Continue reading
Posted in .NET
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Test versus Type
Oliver Steele, who is the Chief Software Architect at Laszlo Systems, wrote a short essay about the cost and time difference between “Explicity-Typed Languages” and “Implicitly-Typed Languages”. A couple people pointed out in the comments that you gain back some … Continue reading
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The Apache Newsletter
The Apache Software Foundation is now putting out a monthly newsletter that “… tries to let people know what’s been going on in the Apache subprojects when they have been unable to monitor all of them themselves.” You can sign … Continue reading
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