It is really good to see more and more companies offering services that can be embedded in one’s own webpage. YouTube is probably the most known example, but the concept is applicable to many other types of services. WordChamp’s new Reader API is a great example of this. Between their Web reader, their Firefox plugin [...]
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I have written about Spock - the supposedly computational linguistics heavy search engine - before. I have to admit that I could not see what people were getting so excited about. Recently, I have received an invitation to the Spock’s beta. And I am still not very excited.
Similarly to constantly shifting FreshNotes/Knover, this company started [...]
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I am looking into Struts 2 and finding its multi-layered defaults somewhat confusing. Specifically, it took forever to fully understand blank demo application that comes bundled with it. Specifically, I could not understand how the example switches between the languages.
From the jsp page, it was clear that it was using the parameter request_locale to indicate [...]
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