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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Computer Science Hard Things
There is a popular saying about Computer Science (see here and here): There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton There is a funny variation that makes it “There are only … Continue reading
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Agile non Evolutionary Stable Strategy
Starting with a quotation I saw at a rest stop while on vacation: Dryland farming works best when in a wet year. This was on a placard explaining that Dryland farming had a string of successful years when it was … Continue reading
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Virtualbox Window Sizing
Ran across this in my (seems to be never ending) search for larger resolution virtual machines running Ubuntu. This time running under Virtualbox in a server connected to tiny monitor (1680×1050). From the VirtualBox OS (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in my … Continue reading
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Secret Share in Java on Maven Central
Just completed a push of the Secret Share in Java project to Maven Central. That is my first “officially published” open-source project. See the link on search.maven.org. GroupId: com.tiemens ArtifactId: secretshare Version: 1.3.1
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Gradle Signing Plugin
If you’ve hit this page, it is probably because you’ve seen this error: $ gpg –verify secretshare-1.3.1-SNAPSHOT.jar.asc secretshare-1.3.1-SNAPSHOT.jar gpg: Signature made Wed 04 Jun 2014 03:01:00 PM CDT using DSA key ID FC76F04F gpg: DSA key FC76F04F requires a 256 … Continue reading
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Choose Your Path Wisely
This article was inspired by a strangely acting Gradle build script. (Unimportant details: it worked fine locally, and it worked in Jenkins the first time, but when I renamed the job, it mysteriously started failing with a compile error every … Continue reading
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