Monthly Archives: September 2009

So A Guy Comes To My Door, Wanting To Sell Me Some Meat…

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Joey Gibson

As the title suggests, about 30 minutes ago a guy comes to the door, wanting to sell me some meat. That sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but it isn’t. My wife told him to wait outside, and … Continue reading →

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The Live On The Internet Song

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Joey Gibson

Finally, I catch on to a meme before it’s too late!

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iPhone Interface For My Blog

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Joey Gibson

09/28/2009 Update: Now added a link to the view from Android. Last week I learned about WPTouch, which is a plugin for WordPress that reformats the theme for the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices. It was an easy install, … Continue reading →

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Power

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Joey Gibson

In Homewood, AL. Posted via web from joeygibson’s posterous

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Sad Building

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Joey Gibson

A sad, abandoned (?), building across the street from #wcbhm09 Posted via web from joeygibson’s posterous

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Gummi Cola Bandolier

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Joey Gibson

This grouping of Gummi Colas came in a bag Thomas got today. He thought it was funny, and both of us thought it resembled a gun belt. He demanded that I post the photo. ;-) Posted via web from joeygibson’s … Continue reading →

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I’m Liking Scala’s XML Literals

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Joey Gibson

How many times have you written a class that you needed to save and restore to/from XML? How did you do it? There are libraries that will do this for you, but I don’t know if any of them have … Continue reading →

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Bogus Search Results From Sys-Con

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Joey Gibson

Updated! Be sure to scroll down for the latest! I’m writing a blog post dealing with Scala’s XML literal syntax and how to use it for object de/serialization and so I wanted to get a list of existing Java XML … Continue reading →

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Scala’s Nice Regex Class

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Joey Gibson

I’m a big fan of regular expressions, because they let you parse text in very concise, and sometimes complicated, ways. Though I agree with jwz about regular expressions in lots of cases, I still use them frequently. Perl was the … Continue reading →

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Announcing JUnitLaunchFixer Eclipse Plugin

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Joey Gibson

My friend Chris and I both work for the same company. Our product has around 900 JUnit tests, and for some of them, the default heap size that Eclipse runs JUnit tests with has become too small. You can change … Continue reading →

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Interesting Date Tracking There, Microsoft

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Joey Gibson

My son was trying to clean up some space on his computer last night, so he was deleting massive amounts of crap. I encouraged him to uninstall anything that he hadn’t used in the last couple of months, but that … Continue reading →

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