I recently saw this fascinating Google Tech Talk from Van Jacobsen. It’s a few years old but it’s one of those things I wish I would have scene years ago when I started grad school doing research in networking and the Internet.
This talk really puts into perspective the importance of things like distributed hash [...]

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I was just looking for some Spring documentation when I cam across this posting, http://springframework.org/node/654 that was linked from the Spring home page.  In the picture on the left, there’s a shiny head that I happened to recognize as my coworker, Jason Allen.  I looked a little closer and found myself in the picture.  I’m [...]

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I’ve been playing with SSL client authentication in Apache httpd today at work.  It’s something I’ve always wanted to play with but haven’t had a good reason to invest the time until now.In the process of testing my configuration, I came across openssl s_client. It’s one of those things I should have already known [...]

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I’m feeling a little bummed this afternoon. I got the following email from the GSoC people:

Dear Applicant,

First of all, Google and the open source organizations taking part in
Google Summer of Code would like to thank for applying to take part in
the program this year. Unfortunately, your application was not one of
those selected to take [...]

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After upgrading Git to 1.5.4.2, I was having problems checking out projects from Apache’s subversion repository. When I would try to do something like:

git svn clone –stdlayout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/asyncweb
Git would output:

Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Using higher level of URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/asyncweb => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA layer [...]

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When I work from our Orem Office, I’m surrounded by people who call themselves ‘architects’. I’ve always hated this title in the software industry. It doesn’t mean anything. If you take a room full of five software architects and ask them what it means to be a software architect, you’ll get five [...]

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