Andrew is confused why his ‘drab’ article on speeding up JBoss is much more popular than his repost of a deep voodoo article asking other people to implement someting that he finds interesting. I wonder!
I have linked to the speeding up article when I saw it, because it was something useful either immediately or later [...]
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Ever tried running multiple Tomcat on the same machine and have that fail because of the port conflict. And not because of the HTTP listen port conflict - because you did know about that one and changed it. But, rather, because of the other ports that are open out of the box as well that [...]
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A pretty funny story from the game Second Life illustrating what happens when the USA-based virtual world developers only think they know the issues of internationalization (i18n for the geeks in you).
Next time I am logged-in, I will try typing in Russian and see whether that will do the trick as well. I wonder what [...]
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Recently, I had been contacted by one of the Chainsaw’s developers - Scott Deboy (no blog yet). He asked if I had any feedback on the tool’s new iteration as it would seem to be a good match to my interests and blog’s goal.
I had looked at the Chainsaw a while ago, but it was [...]
Task based language learning is supposed to give one the focus to learn language faster through general familiarity with the task and limited vocabulary. This approach fails spectacularly for one hard core knitter. Fortunately, internet is there to help. (via LanguageHat)
And if this situation is common for you, NativeText (WayBackMachine archive) is hoping to make [...]
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