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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Jess saw the news about tr.im today as she was using Twitter and asked me which URL-shortening service she should use. URL shortening services allow you to include those monster URLs that some sites seem to be capable of producing in the short-format tweets that twitter is based on. If ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
I had a long-overdue review of the Damerau-Levenshtein Java methods I wrote, extended the regression tests that are included in the class, and discovered a few bugs still hiding in the code. I've pretty much re-written the methods so that they're much easier to read, are much closer in structure ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you're not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an 'online banking buddy' to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
There's currently a fairly serious issue with character encoding at spider.my - the knock-on effect of which is far too many entries in the keyword table. The MySQL Damerau Levenshtein UDF I wrote is fast, but the disks in my database server are not. A spelling suggestion was taking several ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
I promised a 3-6 month report on Internet access with DiGi, so here it is. It was really, really okay. It always just worked, except for a few days around the coup in Perak. During those 2 or 3 days, it was slower than usual and frequently disconnected - up ...
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