Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 21st, 2008
After getting a lot of comment SPAM on different sites I thought I’ll run a quick experiment. Launch a honeypot, almost disable spam prevention and check out the statistics. More details on the honeypot page.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
I was waiting for the Gmail themes tab to appear on the settings page but it never did. I run Gmail under Prism and I hardly ever log out. Once I did do that and logged back in I finally got the themes tabs. Running terminal right now, nooooot.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
For many years I was convinced that Maven was a plot to bring the community of Java developers to the point of extinction. It is very slow in development, overengineered and imposes a set of standards where a 20 line build script would suffice.
On the other hand I was always envious of the way Maven [...]
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
A few days ago I had a small epiphany on a simple yet important issue. I was trying to squeeze those last few percents of performance out of JavaRebel and it came to the point where I started optimizing individual hotspots method-by-method.
One of the most common ways to improve execution time of a specific method [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
The previous post on dow.ngra.de generated tons of traffic. That tons of traffic generated 120 000 requests to a style sheet file that did not exist. Wordpress will display a semi fancy page for 404 files that weighs about 25 KB. 25 KB times 120 000 is 3 000 000 KB :).
Actually the same happened [...]
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