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An interesting TED talk on economic inequality

I have been recently tasked with looking into upgrading the libraries we used for full text search on a site that I help maintain.  Search has become a pretty integral part of our site and performance has gotten worse over time.  We currently use Compass to power the full text searches, but it is no longer…

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I downloaded a copy of the developer preview for windows 8. I decided to load up VMWare and I was greeted with this error: vcpu-0:NOT_IMPLEMENTED vmcore/vmm/intr/apic.c It appears that VMWare Workstation 7 and VMWare Fusion 3 are not compatible. I downloaded a trial version of VMWare Workstation 8 on my Windows 7 PC and it’s…

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In Apache Geronimo 2.2/w tomcat 6 they don’t appear to be using the tomcat jasper JSP compiler. So to pre-compile JSP pages you will need to modify the dependencies of the jspc maven compiler. <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.jspc</groupId> <artifactId>jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0-alpha-3</version> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>compile</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.jspc</groupId> <artifactId>jspc-compiler-tomcat6</artifactId> <version>2.0-alpha-3</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId> <artifactId>jasper</artifactId> </exclusion>…

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If you’re seeing this error when using cxf-codegen-plugin, there is an easy solution: org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.DVFactoryException: DTD factory class org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.dtd.DTDDVFactoryImpl does not extend from DTDDVFactory. <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId> <artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId> <version>${cxf.version}</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId> <version>2.8.1</version> </dependency> </dependencies> … </plugin> The key part is to add the Xerces dependency. After that you should no longer see that error when…

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As part of a project at work we’ve been migrating from using ANT scripts and maintaining our libraries manually to using maven both for the build and for library/dependency management.  As part of that project we have also been updating our libraries which some haven’t been updated in 4 years.  We have also decided to…

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I finally had a chance to play with WordPress some more and learn all the in and outs of building a theme.  I just updated this site with my first WordPress theme.  I figured since I was going to start with a new theme I might as well make the theme use HTML5.  If you’re…

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After WWDC I really wanted to Apple’s new OS a try. Since there is no way I can move to a beta OS on my work computer I decided to give Lion at try on my personal MBP. I have a 13″ 2011 model with the i5 chip and 4 GB of ram. Since I…

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I had the opportunity through work to attend Apple’s Developer Conference this year.  This is my first time going and it was a lot of fun.  I was really impressed with what Apple announced. Since I’m under NDA I won’t discuss the specifics, but it looks like a lot of work that apple has been…

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Back in October of 2010 I decided to try to see if I could cancel my cable and switch to Netfix and over the air broadcasts.  Believe it or not my wife was the one who first proposed the idea.  I did some research and started by buying a digital antenna.  I did my research…

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