Joe's blog

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 paste. So here it is for the next person.
Cheers.

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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. Nothing like the amazing and older IBM, Oracle or Microsoft campuses. [...]

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 album a second time as apposed to trying to migrate it from my android [...]

Just look at it

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) will work well, but Youtube (Google owned) may not. They now have [...]

I had a need to print the build status of our teamcity server in trac. After researching various solutions, I figured a trac macro would best fit. It was a surprisingly simple solution so I figured I would share it here.
I created a file called “TeamCityStatus.py” and placed it into my trac/plugins folder.
from [...]