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How to on port redirection in Cherokee

30th December 2010 Cherokee

To redirect http://a.mysite.com to http://mysite.com:8000 follow these steps in your Cherokee admin web environment: First go to the vServers tab and create a virtual server with name a.mysite.com and give it a document root, e.g. /var/www. Then link to the …

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0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 and 0.1 * 0.2 != 0.02

29th October 2010 Software development, Project management

What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic. A shorter and simpler explanation can be found here.

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How to ask questions the smart way

15th July 2010 Linux, Software development, Project management

In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to …

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What's wrong with libraries, and what to do about it

16th April 2010 Software development, Project management

Surely "Just learn these 57 classes" is not the re-use we were promised?

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Howto debianize Java applications

24th December 2009 Debian, Maven, Java, Ubuntu

Debianization When you are working on a Java based project, it is often handy to debianize the resulting application. Using a package installer your application can be easily installed together with its dependencies, it will will be accessible automagically by …

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