Connection timeouts with the Apache commons TelnetClient
I recently used the Apache commons net package in a project to create a small telnet client that automated a login process. It is hard to find a lot of docum...
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Now that Fedora 7 is out I figured it was time to update the EC2 instance howto. It is almost exactly the same as creating a FC6 instance so if you want to k...
Upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 with yum
Now that Fedora 7 has been release it is time to upgrade from that crusty old Fedora Core 6. Note that they have removed the “Core” from the name so a few th...
Lots of new releases this week
It seems like this week has been release week for “web 2.0” stuff. Facebook F8 went live last week. All kinds of apps have followed.
Anonymous functions in PHP
I ran into this and found it interesting. Someone has added support for anonymous functions in PHP.
EC2 and NAT
Amazon just added NAT to their EC2 service. It also sounds like they will be turning the old direct addressing scheme off soon. This is probably a step towar...
Good Presentation on REST with ActiveResource
I wrote about SOAP vs REST a few weeks ago. Today I noticed this article with a presentation about putting together Rails REST services with ActiveResource.
Howto base64 decode with C/C++ and OpenSSL
Someone asked for an example of decoding with OpenSSL on the Howto base64 encode with C/C++ and OpenSSL post. So here it is:
SOAP vs REST
Recently it seems like the SOAP vs REST debate is heating up. Most of the debate seems to be leaning toward convincing people to not use SOAP based on its in...