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Entries from August 27th, 2008

Find Music by Singing or Humming

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Tools

This morning I was browsing through the ads (using the Google Adsense Preview Tool) of Sling & Stone Music and noticed an interesting ad which had the title “Find Music by Singing“.
I’ve seen this ad pop up in our site before but this morning I decided to give it a try.
The results were astounding. Out [...]

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1st Filipino Online Casual Game

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Philippines

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MANILA, Philippines — Over five years in development and with only about a dozen people to develop it, Bangu-Bang Mania has finally been shown to gaming journalists in a simple ceremony at GameFrog at Metrowalk, Ortigas Center.
Bangu-Bang Mania, developed by VITAS, is considered as the first fully Filipino made online casual game.
You can visit this [...]

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Mapping IP addresses to locations

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Programming, Tools

From the August issue of the JavaRanch Journal:
Have you ever wondered how some websites are able to determine where you visited from? It all begins with the IP address that you belong to when you connect to the internet. Every time you log onto the internet your ISP assigns an IP address to you. This [...]

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The Story of IDM (UltraEdit)

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Sunday School

I got this link from a friend from church earlier this week. Their story is truly inspiring…
What should we do?
In early 1996 we were convinced that a change was necessary, but what? I had a good job, good salary, good benefits and generally I was happy with my job – but I had always wanted [...]

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Beginning Groovy and Grails eBook for $10

August 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Books, Java

As always, I’m very pleased to announce an excellent offering from the Apress daily deal site.
Beginning Groovy and Grails
I’ve been entertaining the thought of trying out either Wicket or Grails for my next web project.
The release of this discounted book answers my question of which framework to try out first.
Will this finally be [...]

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An Eclipse Shirt For Me!

August 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Java, Tools

I got an email this morning (well it arrived last Friday but I read it just today) telling me that I won a free shirt.
Thank you for submitting a review of the Eclipse release to the Ganymede Around the World contest. We have an Eclipse shirt for you! Please send me your:
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Failed Apache Startup (Skype Conflict)

August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Tools

For the past few days, I’ve been puzzled why there are times when my Apache Server would not start up properly.
Below is the message that I’ve been getting from the Windows Application Event Log:
The Apache service named  reported the following error: (OS 10048) Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.  [...]

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