Author Archives: Joe

Using Java’s HttpClient to send a PUT

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Joe

After a lot of searching the net, I wrote this method a few weeks back to write a string (or file) to a web server using Java’s HttpClient. It seemed ridiculous that I couldn’t find an example to cut and … Continue reading →

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Bay Area dot coms

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Joe

So today I spent the afternoon driving around Mountain View. After going to the Computer History Museum (which was awesome mind you) I stopped by Google, Apple and Facebook world headquarters. Food for thought, all of the campuses were non-descript. … Continue reading →

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The perception of vendor lock in

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Joe

So I have this perception of my Android phone being more open and DRM free, and my Apple/iTunes account not being. I had an interesting experience this morning that I thought was best shared. So, I just frustratingly bought an … Continue reading →

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UTF Character encoding in MySQL

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Joe

I’ve had on going issues with mySQL not defaulting to UTF8 and instead using Latin1 constantly. After searching around a bit on the mySQL forums, I seem to have found a series of settings that put a halt to the … Continue reading →

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Just look at this Bananagram

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Joe

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Comcast VS FCC

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Joe

Ouch, I don’t know how I missed this. So Comcast wins the right to tell you what data packets (That you paid for) come to your computer first. Basically, a site like Hulu (who might have a partnership with Comcast) … Continue reading →

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