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How to map a Servlet to only the front page / root path of your webapplication

This post is about Java Web Servlets and will hopefully save you some hours of debugging. Prelude Rant I was naive enough to think that the reasonable URL pattern “/” would match only the root path of the application. Guess … Read more

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Replay search on GosuGamers doesn’t work properly? No problem

Sometimes programming skills become really handy. For example like just now when I tried searching for Warcraft 3 replays including a specific player on GosuGamers. The problem is that it revealed no matches, which is kinda weird because I already … Read more

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iGoogle replacements

Netvibes Netvibes may be my iGoogle replacement of choice as of now. It seems to be fairly flexible and also importing the iGoogle feeds to Netvibes was a breeze. Appearently Netvibes requires the import file to be in an OPML … Read more

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Google phasing out iGoogle and screwing up

So iGoogle is being phased out (service stops at the 1st of November 2013) and of course with my luck I’m being quite “dependant” on it. It’s not an essential service but it’s mighty handy to keep me updated on … Read more

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express – where the fuck is it?

Believe it or not, it’s not on their “Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Management Studio Express” page. Both of the downloads failed to include the SQL Management Studio program for some reason (see below). SQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe     176.5 MB     Download … Read more

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I don’t believe in A/B testing

Some people love to test everything from different designs to the color on buttons. They think it gives them special insight in how the vast anonymous Internet audience behaves; that they’ve cracked the code. So according to your numbers (you … Read more

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Enable fullscreen mode when generating YouTube movie with swfobject

I recently dived into the YouTube javascript API as we (the company I work for) wanted to track behaviour on the video (note that the YouTube javascript API is not great for this task, but that is another matter). However, … Read more

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