Category Archives: development

Java programmer certification and interview questions

August 19, 2008 – 4:44 pm

Earlier: Java programmer certification CX-310-065 preparation | James … I posted about preparation, I passed but didn’t get a great mark. The Sun exam objectives and overviews provide a lot of good information about what will be in the exam and I should have spent more time revising that material - especially since many of […]

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Google in Maori

August 6, 2008 – 2:28 pm

On the Offiical Google Blog, a much more informative post has been made about the effort and work that has been done to get Google in Maori off the ground and exactly who should take credit for this hard work. Since I posted about it, I have received a rather large number of hits; so […]

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Ruby on Rails vs Java?

August 1, 2008 – 12:11 pm

I’m amused, in our project we use .NET for a public website and we use Java for the Client UI and web services. So we have this conversation a lot…
Us Java guys don’t seem phased by having to source open source frameworks to enable logging, unit testing, building, web services, server pages, XML parsing…. 100’s […]

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Yahoo Search Monkey

July 24, 2008 – 8:18 pm

Welcome semantic web! Yahoo is now providing intelligent search applications, that are based around microformats. They also provide an application that allows you to generate PHP search code and make those applications public
Check out:

Yahoo developer blog
Search monkey best practice
Search monkey!

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regex PHP

July 22, 2008 – 11:02 pm

Doing some playing around with the regex in LastRSS and was wondering what
“‘<$ti.*?>(.*?)</$ti>’si”
might mean… looks like it is treat newlines as whitespace and be insensitive to case. But I’ll have to test the sin out of it anyway. And I found a good PHP resource, as well as some good stuff on PHP regex.

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