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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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Category Archives: XML
Delicious + Movable Type + Java
I’ve been keeping a list of interesting links in a text file for the last couple years and only recently thought better of it and started using del.icio.us to store links. And I wanted to show the links as part … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Software Development, Systems Administration, XML
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Using Betwixt, Struts and REST
My latest project at work launched a couple weeks ago, unfortunately there isn’t much to look at, but it’s not like I’m a Flash developer, so unless I start writing Windows apps, no one will ever be able to see … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, SOAP, Software Development, Struts, XML
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Retrieving an RSS feed protected by Basic Authentication using ROME
Today I worked on a feature in a Struts web application where I needed to retrieve an RSS feed that is protected by Basic Authentication and then display the the results of the feed in a web page. I’ve heard … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Software Development, Struts, XML
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ebay web services talk by Jeffrey McManus
A couple weeks ago I attended the Boston .NET User Group to hear Jeffrey McManus give a talk on how ebay is using web services. I took a bunch of notes during his presentation, which I’m putting up here semi-edited. … Continue reading
Posted in .NET, J2EE, SOAP, Software Development, XML
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UBL 1.0
Last week Tim Bray mentioned the May 1st release of UBL 1.0, which he defines as “… a set of general-purpose XML-encoded business documents: orders, acknowledgments, packing slips, invoices, receipts.” He goes on to compare UBL to HTML, saying that … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Open Source, Software Development, XML
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Amazon Web Services Newletter cool links
The February Amazon Web Services Newsletter had some pretty cool applications: Blogfuel: “Use blogfuel to create a link to an individual item at amazon (using ASIN Search) to illustrate your book review. Or place the code in the sidebar of … Continue reading
Posted in J2ME, SOAP, XML
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Creating RSS using Java
I wanted to create RSS feeds for karensrecipes.com using Java. I did my ‘research‘, came to this page: Ben Hammersley.com: Java RSS libraries and then used the RSS4j library to create a servlet that serves up dynamic RSS feeds of … Continue reading
Posted in Content Management, J2EE, Open Source, XML
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J2ME Recipe Viewer update & code samples
Hey, it’s working! I ironed out the problems I was having with my J2ME Recipe Viewer application. Couple things I did to make it purr: First, I mentioned that I was getting an IO error when trying to make a … Continue reading
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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
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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
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