Fri - August 31, 2007

Using the Yahoo! Mail SOAP API 1.1 from Java's JAX-WS 2.1


On YDN they have samples and documentation on how to use the Yahoo! Mail SOAP API from Axis2. I'm not a big fan of that method so I went ahead and used JAX-WS to do my dirty work. As an example, I will build an RSS feed of the users unread messages.

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Fri - August 17, 2007

Versus: Argue why Foo is better than Bar


Versus is a research project by some Bix developers (my friend John Beatty is one of them) at Yahoo that is trying to aggregate the arguments for choosing between two or more competitive offerings.

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Sat - April 14, 2007

Web 2.0 Expo


I'll be at the Web 2.0 Expo starting tomorrow night at the Ignite event.

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Sat - March 17, 2007

Java Performance Optimization


Last night I decided to revive my poker hand evaluator library and look at it from a performance perspective and do some optimizations if need be. Some of my findings give insight into what kinds of things are optimized in JDK 1.6 vs JDK 1.5 and how things vary between Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

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Mon - March 12, 2007

Search by number


Just added a cool little feature to Yahoo! Search with Greasemonkey. Using this you can just press the number of the search result rather than clicking on it so your hands don't have to leave the keyboard.

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Fri - February 9, 2007

Yahoo! Pipes just launched


A really cool application, Pipes, from Yahoo! launched the other day and has the potential to really make it easy to mashup web applications and repurpose data.

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Tue - January 30, 2007

Bix Widget


Putting external content on your site and/or profile is hot right now, see my newly installed Yahoo! Search Link badge, my Flickr badge, my Yahoo! Finance badge, and my MyBlogLog widget. Bix has a really cool one as well.

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Mon - September 4, 2006

Crossover (WINE) vs. Parallels vs. Bootcamp


Another entrant has joined the race to capture the dollars of those who wish to run Windows software on their Intel Macs. Codeweavers has now released a beta of Crossover Mac which is a repackaging of WINE with additional compatibility modifications and more user friendly tools.

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Sun - August 13, 2006

How to keep your feed URL but use Feedburner for a better feed


A couple of months ago I started using Feedburner to manage my RSS feed but I didn't want to have to change the current feed URL and lock myself to them.

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Tue - August 8, 2006

Giving away ideas for free


Ok, now that I've seen the upteenth idea I had years ago finally implemented after long last I've decided I'm just going to put them on my blog if I don't plan on ever doing anything about it. Also, it turns out execution is about 99% of the work, so this really is just a token gesture.

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