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Dec
2013
Where to Buy and Sell Bitcoin
A Guide to Bitcoin Acquisition and Exchange Sites There has been a lot of buzz around Bitcoin lately, especially with the price breaking the $1000 mark. All the hype around the digital currency has piqued interest in many people who either had no idea what Bitcoin was a month ago, or were determined it was […]
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Nov
2013
Using Branches in Git
In order to utilize Git’s full potential, we should be using branches to house our sets of changes. Typically you want a branch to be as atomic as possible. The goal is to have your branch contain a specific set of work (which can be eventually squashed down to a single commit) which will eventually […]
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Mar
2013
Ubuntu Forums Upgrade to vBulletin 4
So this may be a few weeks shy of being breaking news, but I wanted to write a short post to give recognition to a friend and former coworker who helped make this possible. Kyle Baker took on the task of helping to Ubuntu Forums develop an OpenID plugin for vBulletin 4. I encourage you […]
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Dec
2012
Git Stash
Although Git is certainly not a new distributed version control system, I am new to using it as of this year. After a good 6+ years of Subversion (SVN) (and CVS before that) I’m still learning the differences that sets Git light years ahead of any other version control system currently available. With new technologies […]
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Nov
2012
Using Java to solve IE8 Base64 Encoding Issue for Images
Recently I was tasked with writing a Java Servlet to consume images from a 3rd party REST Service and serve them up via JSP. Shortly after getting started, I realized that image was being transmitted as binary so I needed to find a way to display them on the page without having to store them […]
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Oct
2012
Razor Max Email: TLS Required but Not Supported by Server
Earlier this year I made the switch from my old iPhone 3G (yeah, not even 3GS) to the Droid RAZR Maxx. For the most part I love the phone, especially the 4G network, long battery life, and large screen display. One of the first things I did when I got the phone was synch it […]
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Sept
2012
How to Display Line Numbers In Eclipse
I love Eclipse as an IDE for Java, but man do I hate how hard it is to find the setting to turn the line numbers on. I’ll keep this post short and sweet, but I just had to Issue Blog this one because it gets me every time! The Problem For some strange reason, […]
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Sept
2012
Fatal Error Compiling: tools.jar not found…
I’ve run into this issue several times now while working on recent Adobe CQ5 projects. The peculiar thing about this problem is that I was only noticing it when trying to do a Maven build in Eclipse. Typically when this error message is seen it means that the Java JDK is not being pointed to […]
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Aug
2012
Wedding on a Budget – Photoshop Tips and Tricks to Help Save Money
Anyone who knows me or who follows me knows that i am currently engaged to be married later this year. Those of you who have been married before know just how expensive a wedding can be. Luckily there are ways to save some green when planning a wedding and in the case of this post, […]
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