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UnknownHostException: Java & IPV6 on Linux

By Mark | Published: October 9, 2008
In case this helps someone else, I spent a few hours trying to pin down why my GWT app was seeing UnknownHostExceptions for things like google.com when using HttpClient in hosted mode. Luckily, I found this guy (girl?) in the same boat, who figured out that you just need to flip a system property to get [...]
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Lots of Data

By Mark | Published: August 21, 2008
At xmog we’re working on a project for Advanta that requires fast searching over millions of records. Luckily for us, Lucene is disgustingly good and makes the whole process relatively simple. The reason I mention this is because Amazon’s Elastic Block Storage was released today – finally, persistent non-S3 storage inside the compute cloud. [...]
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Billing Manager on the iPhone

By Mark | Published: May 6, 2008
I was pleasantly surprised to see Billing Manager land at the top of the heap of Apple’s list of iPhone Productivity Apps (and we’re 7th most popular across _all_ apps) only a few days after we added support for Mobile Safari. We’re also a “Staff Pick”. Good stuff!
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POOL ON THE ROOF MUST HAVE A LEAK

By Mark | Published: April 8, 2008
Don’t remember where this was originally from (found it years ago). You have to admit it’s awesome.
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Opportunity Lost

By Mark | Published: March 23, 2008
$ whois ihaveawidestance.com Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: IHAVEAWIDESTANCE.COM Created on: 02-Sep-07 Expires on: 03-Sep-08 Last Updated on: 02-Sep-07 I had a good idea; looks like someone else got there right after the fact, though.
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revetkn.com library

By Mark | Published: March 14, 2008
Spent some time converting my old Books library (in which I had entered all of my technical books a year or so ago) to Delicious Library format using a Groovy script. It’s incomplete right now, but what the hell. Take a look: library.revetkn.com.
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Waltham and Half

By Mark | Published: March 13, 2008
Just recently made another trip up to the Intuit offices in Waltham, MA.  If you’re a good engineer and are looking for work, you can’t go too far wrong there – the Innovation Lab has a playroom with an HDTV, Wii/Guitar Hero, fussball table, and pool table. Good stuff! Also found out while flipping through the xmog [...]
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Returning soon…

By Mark | Published: March 12, 2008
Still fooling around with Slicehost right now.
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