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Finding all stackoverflow.com questions that do not have accepted answers

Mick Knutson — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:16 +0000

TweetOn stackoverflow.com, when you ask a question and there is an answer that is acceptable to you, then it helps your reputation to accept the answer. But I was not able to find a way to list all of my questions that I have not accepted answers for. Answers that are not accepted have a white arrow [...]

Plugin for Chrome and Firefox to pre-set Google search the past year with safe-search off

Mick Knutson — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:17:10 +0000

TweetI have been wanting to preset my Google searches in Chrome and Firefox to only search previous year and not use safe-search. I can across a simple plugin that works for both Chrome Dev Channel 20.0.1123.4 and Firefox 12 and came across this plugin: Google (Past Year, No SafeSearch) (google.com) by Robert Ciaccio [Review] http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=Google+%28Past+Year%2C+No+SafeSearch%29 Hope you [...]

Java float precision changes when unexpectedly up-casting to double

Mick Knutson — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:15:19 +0000

TweetI ran across a little gotcha today where a float value being inserted into another object container (JSONObject) was not holding the precision of the original value. The JSONObject actually takes a double not a float, and I overlooked the up-casting initially until I started unit testing. (have to love unit tests!) here is a print [...]

Pushed Spring Core Certification Demos to Github and published site docs

Mick Knutson — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:42:17 +0000

TweetI have been working on my Spring Core certification exam preparation by creating several demo projects that help cover each of the outlined objectives for the exam. I wanted to publish the code on github and it can be found, watched and forked: https://github.com/mickknutson/SpringCertification I also wanted to publish the site documentation as well and [...]

Gradle 1.0-milestone-8 variable scoping with multi-module project

Mick Knutson — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:09:17 +0000

TweetI have been very frustrated by Gradle and variable scoping in a multi-module project. I have wasted countless hours trying to follow examples that simply do not work as stated, and having limited examples for the type of multi-module project that I wanted to create. So first I started with a List variable at the [...]

Gradle repositories syntax changed: Cause: You must specify a URL for a Maven repository

Mick Knutson — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:49:56 +0000

TweetI have been fighting with Gradle (gradle-1.0-milestone-7) for over a day and am fairly frustrated, especially seeing what the solution ended up being. I was using gradle-1.0-milestone-5 and just upgraded to gradle-1.0-milestone-7. I have been using the following repositories Then I keep getting this error The issue was so subtle… I removed the colon (:) and the issue was resolved. [...]

Now is a time for CHANGE, not more hope that never comes!

Mick Knutson — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:36:32 +0000

TweetImage everyone from the occupy [anyplace]. So those are the 99% huh? I think Ron Paul is the ONLY person that is NOT part of the 1% everyone is so unhappy about! If we really want to stand together as the 99%… then stand for one of you own! Stand for freedom! Stand for change, [...]

Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat 6 connector option enableLookups not defaulting to true

Mick Knutson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:26:34 +0000

TweetI have been working on an issue where HttpServletRequest.getHostName() always return the IP address, instead of the host name. The Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat 6 documentation states enableLookups is set to true by default. enableLookups Set to true if you want calls to request.getRemoteHost() to perform DNS lookups in order to return the actual host name of [...]

Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Mick Knutson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:54:41 +0000

TweetFor anyone who has any drive in their life, you should read/listen to this book. There is a little bit of Steve in each of us, but he was able to will the good and the bad in a single focused direction to truly make a dent in the universe. I was drawn to this [...]

Review: Camel in Action

Mick Knutson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:52:00 +0000

TweetI performed a technical review on the book, and the first thing I did was open the source code and run through the examples. Each of the examples was well documented, thorough and all had unit tests. Combine this with very detailed history, theory and practical application of the Camel framework, you end up with [...]