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To Learn Is To Be Young

The days I have class at BYU, I work from our offices that are close to BYU campus instead of commuting back up to my normal place of work in Salt Lake City. I’ve only been working from this location for a few weeks. The other day I walked past a book shelf and saw [...]

CS 462 Lab 1 Review

I didn’t have any significant difficulties with Lab 1.  For the most part I thought it was fairly trivial.  No offense to those who struggled.  I’ve been building web applications professionally for years and I’ve been using Linux as my desktop OS exclusively for almost 5 years.  The lab was still beneficial though and I [...]

Apache MINA 1.1.0 Released

The Apache MINA project just announced the 1.1.0 release of MINA. This is a significant release because it takes advantage of many of the benefits of Java 5 including the new concurrency library as well as generics and a few other things. It’s very similar to MINA 1.0 as far as functionality goes. For anyone [...]

Programming Contest Results

The programming contest results are finally in. My C code prevailed and I am the biggest geek in the office.

Nerdy Inadequcies

I no longer feel adequate as a nerd. I’m writing this from my home office which I thought was really nerdy up until a few minutes ago. On my desk I have a laptop plugged into a docking station. Next to it, I have a 21″ monitor and a 19″ monitor both plugged into my [...]

Jira Rocks

We’ve been using GForge and Bugzilla for issue tracking. I had been satisfied with both. I had heard a lot of good things about Jira from a number of different people and I’ve seen a lot of open-source projects moving to Jira. I didn’t think it was that big of a deal but now that [...]

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