Don't Buy A Creative Zen Touch MP3 Player ...
... or any other big MP3 player for that matter. It keeps you from doing anything useful. For two weeks I've been spending my spare time ripping CDs. I didn't read news, didn't watch TV, didn't blog. I didn't ego surf or checked referers. It's that bad.
All joking aside, the
Creative Zen Touch is a great unit.
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Fighting Referer Spam. Round 2.
I'm at a point where my referer logs simply become useless. OK, I can't prevent referer spam from hitting my site. But I can filter the log file later.
Derefspam does exactly that.
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The ONElist File -- The Story Of Yahoo Groups
Mark Fletcher of Bloglines fame also was the founder of ONElist. The
ONElist file chronicles the story of ONElist from inception to the point where
Yahoo bought them. It makes for an interesting read, even if it's still work in progress.
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The French Cafe Technique -- Or How Samba Was Written
Via a
post on Groklaw, I found an fascinating
article about how
Samba was written. The Samba guys don't call it reverse engineering. They like to compare it to a French Cafe.
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Resources for Automatic Updates of Java Applications
On my
quest for tools that help with automatic updates of Java applications I found a couple of articles, tools and libraries.
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Fighting Referer Spam
I found a nice
resource about how to fight referer spam using a .htaccess file.
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How Do You Deliver Updates To Users?
My question to the lazy web: are there any best practices, techniques or tools available that help with updating applications at the customers site?
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