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Archive of February 2008

Leap year issues in apache commons-net
Friday 29 Feb 2008 at 13:17
I never encountered any real Y2K bugs in code I was involved in. Today, however, I ran into a nasty problem caused by date parsing in the apache commons-net library.
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Still using NetBeans
Wednesday 27 Feb 2008 at 11:37
I am not a big user of IDE's. In the past, I hardly ever used an IDE for more than 1 week. With NetBeans 6, I broke my record.
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Online privacy
Monday 25 Feb 2008 at 19:55
The dicussion about online identity and privacy is gaining more attention. I think this is a good thing, but we should find a safe area between an Internet where no user-generated contributions are possible and an Internet where privacy is non-existing.
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Heading for JavaFX
Tuesday 19 Feb 2008 at 23:31
Finally, I am starting to do something more than just experimenting with JavaFX. The JavaFX technology is becoming more mature, and I plan to use it in commercial projects rather soon now.
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Popfolio site launched.
Thursday 14 Feb 2008 at 22:49
Together with the folks at Poppunt, we have created an artistic dating website using DaliCMS.
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The OpenID breakthrough
Monday 11 Feb 2008 at 12:56
OpenID has been around for some years, gaining more and more support from users and companies. Last week, the OpenID foundation made an important announcement: Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo are joining the OpenID board.
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finding bugs in software
Sunday 10 Feb 2008 at 21:28
Web-baed projects are often hard to debug automatically. Despite all efforts done in the area of automated testing, human testing is still very much needed in this area.
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Java and closures
Monday 04 Feb 2008 at 09:48
I am pretty sure one of the hot items at the next JavaOne conference will be the discussion about closures.
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