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How to Write Original Jokes (Or Have A Computer Do It For You)
2008-03-02 06:30:00
Code walkthrough and explanation of a Common Lisp joke generator. Create your own original jokes by changing the vocabulary. All of the jokes are of the form: "What do you get when you cross X and Y?" Some of the jokes are pretty good, others are bad, and some just make you go "huh?"
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J2EE Application Environment Optimization Checklist
2008-02-16 07:18:00
Optimizing J2EE applications is hard. Even if all of your algorithms have been analyzed in big-O notation and finely tuned, you can have abysmal performance due to a poorly configured environment. J2EE applications depend on many lower layers which all must be properly optimized in order to give good overall performance. This page gives a checklist of optimization tips organized by layer. It includes optimizations for the HTTP Server, Application Server, Java frameworks, database, and the application itself. This page isn't intended to be a comprehensive optimization guide; it is a checklist of the most effective optimizations I have found that can be applied in most situations. This checklist is a good place to start before more focused optimizations - and you may even find that nothing more is required.
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Ravatar Wordpress plugin for randam avatars
2008-01-28 05:57:00
This is the release page for the Ravatar Wordpress plugin. The Ravatar plugin helps build your community by giving commenters a unique "face." The Ravatar plugin will display a randomly generated avatar for each unique visitor that leaves a comment. The types of avatars that are generated are customizable, so that the blog owner can choose to generate avatars that match the color scheme or theme of the site. Visitors can optionally choose their own avatar by setting up a Gravatar.
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Top 7 Development Tools
2008-01-15 07:14:00
Every developer should have a collection of tools that at their disposal to facilitate project planning stages, speed development, automate testing and building, organize code versions, and otherwise make life easier. Here is a list of the standard tools in my toolbox that make me more productive. Almost all of them are F/OSS and multi-platform. This list has a slight Java slant, but most of these tools are language independent.
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Using Axis to generate Java files from WSDLs
2007-12-30 05:43:00
Apache Axis is an implementation of the SOAP protocol. It is a framework for constructing SOAP clients and servers. A Java client application is able to use a Web Service by calling Java stub classes created from WSDL files. These WSDL files are made availible by the SOAP server application. As an example, we will go through the process of creating a jar file from WSDLs using the Yahoo 's Enterprise Web Services (EWS). The EWS platform makes Yahoo's Search Marketing API available.
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