http://joeo.ws random news, thoughts and stories Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:18:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://joeo.ws/archives/242 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, ... http://joeo.ws/archives/226 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 ... http://joeo.ws/archives/224 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 problem once and for all. Just add these ... http://joeo.ws/archives/214 Just look at it http://joeo.ws/archives/209 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 ... http://joeo.ws/archives/203 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 ... http://joeo.ws/archives/202 Occurring only 630 million years after the Big Bang, GRB 090423 detonated so early that astronomers had no direct evidence that anything explodable even existed back then. The faint infrared afterglow of GRB 090423 was recovered by large ground telescopes within minutes of being discovered. The afterglow is circled in ... http://joeo.ws/archives/201 I've found a new pass time. http://www.fmylife.com/ "Today, my friend drove me me to catch the 8 pm train. Running late, we screeched into the parking lot at 7:57, stopped the car in a 'no stop' zone. I said goodbye to my friend, sprinted to my train and barely made it. Then, ... http://joeo.ws/archives/200 Finally got around to posting this. It's a bit on a long side as I tried to make the video fit the song. If I knew what I was doing, I would have shortened the song. http://joeo.ws/archives/199