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mthomas··on Annyong, a small web server that serves static files from the current directory
I use thttpd: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd_man.html for simple fast serving.
mthomas··on Ask HN: Why are Java developers so boring?
I wouldn't lose hope just yet. In my experience it takes on average 6 months to find a qualified full stack java developer, or just any qualified developer. Just by luck of the draw, you're going to run into 9-5 ers more than anyone else. For most people, a job is a job.
mthomas··on Work has started on the next generation of Apache web server
Are there any significant barriers to use the event MPM as it stands in the 2.2.

Does it fall back to worker when its used under SSL?

mthomas··on Euler's Identity (and other maths) explained in 5 minutes
I don't understand the point of the talk. The only way you could follow what he was saying was if you understood the material he was trying to "explain".

I think someone wanting to learn about about the relation between pi, e, i, sine and cosine wouldn't be helped by this talk.

mthomas··on Peter Norvig: The machine age
Perhaps offtopic, but I find it odd that there is an opinion piece by Peter Norvig in the NY Post.
mthomas··on Something odd is happening at haskell.org (Edit: Domain registration lapse)
It seems that they let the domain expire. This should get you by: http://hpaste.org/42369/haskellorg_ips
mthomas··on "I am Wired"
I think its just referring to being in the Zone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Professions_a...
mthomas··on Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone
I believe that is also possible with Android phones when you use the default Exchange connectivity app. I've ended up using a different program to connect to Exchange.
mthomas··on My HN November app: Quick Brown Frog
I just tried it out. I like the feedback about which keys gave me trouble. However, i sometimes got tripped up because I automatically added two spaces after a period and your test only expected one space.
mthomas··on Senate Passes Bill To Quash Pirate Websites
The Senate Judiciary committee passed the bill. It still needs to approved by the full senate: http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/11/18/senate-judiciary-app...
mthomas··on Ask HN: What is a shopping cart and why wouldn't I just write my own?
Some things your shopping cart might be missing which are non trivial.

  - Coupons or PROMOS ( X% off, $Y off, stackable)
  - Persisting a shopping cart between visits if an user doesn't checkout.
  - Saving items from a shopping cart to wishing list and vice-versa
  - Integration with multiple payment gateways but exposing a single interface
mthomas··on Trying to Improve CouchDB's Performance with NIFs
For those who are unfamiliar with the erlang parlance, like me: native implemented functions (NIFs). http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html
mthomas··on Chargify New Pricing
Chargify requires that you setup both a payment gateway and a merchant account. Why would you use them instead of just integrating with the gateway directly?
mthomas··on Automatically running a command whenever a file is saved
I notice that you're using a polling thread keep track of modification times. I know that linux has inotify: http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify and OsX has something similar with FSEvents: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MacFSEvents
mthomas··on How to build a Java buildserver
Why not simply use Hudson: http://hudson-ci.org/. It has a bunch of plugins http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Plugins
mthomas··on Ask HN: How can I build web apps without knowing how to code them?
Have you looked at http://www.web2py.com/. It comes with a webserver and database. There is also a book: http://web2py.com/book and there are prebuilt application that you can install http://web2py.com/appliances
mthomas··on LKML: Performance disparity, problem found
The date on that post is April 1. Took a while for that to register for me.
mthomas··on Facebook and MySpace giving user private data to ad firms
It seems that the WSJ article is talking about http referrer headers. If you happened to click a link from your profile page, then the referrer header points to that page.
mthomas··on HN: The distress of a young padawan. (rant)
I would start attending a user group. Linux, Java, functional programming if you can find one, any group with users that are passionate about technology outside of work. At the very least, you should be able to find like minded people.
mthomas··on Ask HN: Who's hiring?
New York, NY: NewsCore is hiring: Java, Linux, Python

http://crunchboard.personforce.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid...

mthomas··on Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair
I've found maven to be useful.

It standardizes the layout for the majority of java based projects.

It also lets me deal with dependencies in a decent manner. Maven should not be downloading dependencies on every build unless you are using SNAPSHOT versions.

There is a free book available: http://www.sonatype.com/products/maven/documentation/book-de...

mthomas··on Ask HN: Java & SQL advice
I've had success using Spring's JDBCTemplate http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/api/org/spr... and their various RowMappers http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/api/org/spr...
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