developerWorks Tutorial: Parse XML with dom4j

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Karl

IBM’s developerWorks has a nice write up on Parsing XML with dom4J and its XPath support: “Parse XML with dom4j”

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Java 7 Makes Copy and Move Files and Directories Simpler

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Karl

Java Code Geeks has a post that shares Java 7′s simplified file handling: “Java 7: Copy and Move Files and Directories – Java Code Geeks”

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Nurturing A Video Game Industry In Philadelphia

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Karl

NewsWorks posted a story, back in December, on “Philadelphia Game Lab”, an organization I’m helping advise led by idea-machine Nathan Solomon whose energy and passion is infectious. Read it: NewsWorks: “Nurturing a nascent video game industry in Philadelphia — NewsWorks”.

Tonight there is a game scene event at Barcade.

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Earlier This Month The Commodore 64 Turned 30

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Karl

Cheap, accessible, it opened the doors for many children to their careers today and families had a lot of fun a long the way.

The six months I had one, and the time I spent with my friend Steve’s 64, left a long term impression on the course of my life.

reghardware: “The Commodore 64 is 30 • reghardware”

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Go Philly! CyberCoders Reveals Top 10 Cities for Technology Jobs in 2012

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

MarketWatch: “CyberCoders Reveals Houston Beats out San Jose and Silicon Valley as The Leading City for Technology Jobs in 2012. Philadelphia is #3!!!

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Jonathan Stray: “What should the digital public sphere do?”

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

A fantastic piece from Jonathan Stray on “algorithm designers to dedicated curators to, yes, traditional on-the-scene pro journalists, a great many people in different fields now have a part in shaping the digital public sphere”: “What should the digital public sphere do?”.

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

The famous quoted passage from John Donne below has been brought up a few times the past few weeks. Here is the whole: “Meditation 17″:

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Setup Play and Scala on Mac OS

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

Aren Patel has a nice write up that I worked through today: “How to Install Play Framework in OSX – arenpatel.com”.

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Setup Emacs for Clojure on Mac OS

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

Nick at Unschooled has a quick post on getting a Clojure environment up and going fast that I just walked through without a problem: “How to setup Emacs for Clojure on Mac OS X Lion”.

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Learn To Play Any Song By Ear

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Karl

Well, not every song, but the technique described in in this reddit comment match those I use to figure out how to play along to almost any pop or rock song.

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