http://blog.markwshead.com Mark's Weblog Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:29:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After reading a some comments in a blog post about how DMOZ really needs more good editors, I thought I’d give it a try. I noticed that the Personal Organization category didn’t have an editor so I pushed the button to apply to be an editor. I filled ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2006/10/09/another-reason-dmoz-is-dying.html If you are trying to use Rome and Rome Feed Fetcher, the following will not change the default user agent: FeedFetcher feedFetcher = new HttpURLFeedFetcher(); feedFetcher.setUserAgent(\"User Agent 007\"); SyndFeed feed = null; feedURL = new URL(rssUrl); feed = feedFetcher.retrieveFeed(feedURL); List entries = feed.getEntries(); To change the user agent you must use the InfoCache as shown: FeedFetcherCache feedInfoCache = ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/10/19/changing-user-agent-in-rome.html To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. — Thomas Edison This is what is so facinating about programming. Your “pile of junk” consists of digital assest instead of physical matterial, so the raw materials are not limited by the normal laws of supply and demand. ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/10/09/inventing-in-software.html Yahoo and Google are trying to one up each other on whose database contains more pages. Does it really matter? Isn’t relevancy more important? It depends on who your user is. If most of your queries on search engines return hundreds or thousands of results, then it probably doesn’t ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/27/does-size-matter-to-search-engines.html Subversion is great, but like any data repository, it must be backed up regularly. Many people have tried to implement version control without really understanding how it works, only to later discover that their backup strategy wasn’t working. The backup script I use is run every night as part of ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/21/backing-up-subversion-automatically.html Brett Porter has hacked together a tool that will let you use a CVS or Subversion repository as your maven repository. Brett Porter - Storing your Maven Repository in CVS/Subversion It’s pretty rough, but is a working prototype that makes Maven 1.1/2.0 downloads a checkout/update, and deploy is an add/commit. ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/19/storing-your-maven-repository-in-cvssubversion.html I ran across this blog post that is probably typical of many people who are managing software projects. Musings of a Software Development Manager » Blog Archive » CruiseControl Warnings I get about 48 email messages from Cruisecontrol each day for one of our projects. This is not something I’m proud of ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/09/15/ignoring-build-problems.html Kathy Sierra has an interesting post on her blog about college. Toward the end she talks about how her teenager has decided not to go to college. Kathy reasons that since her personal career has very little to do with her original degree, her daughter is just as ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/07/30/98.html OS X has an environmental variable called CLICOLOR. If it is set, it turns on color for command line commands. So… export CLICOLOR=true will turn on color. If you want to enable this for everyone, you could do that by putting it in /etc/profile. http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/07/30/enabling-color-terminal-on-os-x-104.html This guy says that using Subversion and Cruisecontrol cut their costs by 92%. It would be interesting to see how he calculated this. Regardless, it is amazing how many quality tools are available for free now. Why Subversion Rocks In a recent study I performed on my development groups process ... http://blog.markwshead.com/archives/2005/07/24/why-subversion-rocks.html