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	<title>Jason E. Shao</title>
	<link>http://jay.shao.org</link>
	<description>Thoughts and Ruminations, where I write about personal things, work, eLearning, Jasig, uPortal, Sakai, Portlets, and other topics or commentary as it takes my fancy.</description>
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		<title>iPhone/Droid Sales Comparison Misleading</title>
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		A number of news sources seem to be publishing comparisons between initial sales numbers for the Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, and Google Nexus One.


    http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/nexus-one-sales/
    http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-vs-Google-Nexus-One-vs-Motorola-Droid


Some quick comparisons are being made trying to compare the DROID &#38; iPhone numbers head on, but I&#8217;m surprised not to see any sidebars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/03/17/iphonedroid-sales-comparison-misleading/</link>
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		<title>Spring wiring private init-method</title>
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		While adding some unit tests to older Spring code, I noticed that the production Spring configuration was wiring together some pretty simple Factory objects that had private init() methods (took a few minutes to figure out why I kept getting wavy lines), that looked like this:

1234567891011121314private void init&#40;&#41;&#123;
try &#123;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder&#40;&#41;;
for&#40;String server : [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/03/16/spring-wiring-wprivate-init-method/</link>
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		<title>IntelliJ and JRebel</title>
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		So, after enduring some abuse from colleagues who miss VisualStudio (I have to admit &#8211; that feature to move the program counter does look really cool) I spent a bit of time the other day setting up with a trail-run of JRebel. So far the experience has been pretty fantastic &#8211; I can use maven to jetty:run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/03/10/intellij-and-jrebel/</link>
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		<title>[Fixed] IntelliJ Ubuntu Launcher Problem</title>
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		http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224100I had a bunch of trouble getting a GNOME launcher to successfully execute (interestingly enough, the Eclipse/STS launchers mostly worked fine) &#8211; turned out it was related to JDK_HOME not being recognized by GNOME. I&#8217;d gotten accustomed to setting up my environment variables in ~/.bashrc and sourcing that into .profile &#8211; apparently GNOME looks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/03/04/fixed-problem-creating-intellij-launcher-in-ubuntugnome/</link>
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		<title>Trying IntelliJ, For Real this Time</title>
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		So &#8211; have been getting an increasing amount of weirdness with Eclipse/m2Eclipse/STS recently, which has made experimenting w/Intellij increasingly attractive. Going to try doing a mostly turkey switch for a few days, and see &#8211; since many people I know and respect rave about it. Initial thoughts:


    Maven import was real easy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/02/26/trying-intellij-for-real-this-time/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Jason Up to?</title>
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		Some people have commented on updates to Facebook &#38; Linked in, so thought I&#8217;d author a quick post detailing what I&#8217;m up to these days. For anyone who&#8217;s wondering, as of January of this year, I am no longer at CampusEAI &#8211; I&#8217;ve chosen to join ContextWeb, an advertising network/exchange vendor based in NYC, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/02/25/whats-jason-up-to/</link>
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		<title>[Fixed] Ubuntu 9.10 &amp; Compiz Breaks VNC</title>
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		So, found out while trying to VNC into my work box, that the &#8220;Visual Effects&#8221; in Ubuntu breaks the built-in GNOME VNC server &#8211; what happens is you can input text, click on controls, but changes are not refreshed into the view (the view isn&#8217;t &#8220;Damaged&#8221;). The current workaround seems to be either moving back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/02/16/ubuntu-9-10-compiz-breaks-vnc/</link>
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		<title>ContextWeb is Hiring Java Developers in NYC</title>
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		For people who have heard, I recently started a new position as a developer at ContextWeb. ContextWeb is a targeted/contextual advertising provider and exchange, and recently embarked on a technical re-architecture moving from C# to Java, moving from DBs to Hadoop, running a SCRUM/Agile environment with a bunch of pretty sharp people, free coffee, soft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/02/12/contextweb-is-hiring-java-developers-in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>Buried Pretty Deep (Snow)</title>
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		We&#8217;re buried pretty deep now &#8211; looks like a bit over 1 foot (hey, it&#8217;s a lot for NJ) and it&#8217;s still coming down. Lisa just asked how we&#8217;re going to handle digging out&#8230; uhh&#8230; yeah, a plan would be good.

Kicker for today was the local newspaper: &#8220;Woodbridge Snow Plow Driver Finds Wandering Seal&#8221; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/02/10/buried-pretty-deep-snow/</link>
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		<title>Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Buzz</title>
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		Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Buzz: &#8220;We&#8217;ve relied on other services&#8217; openness in order to build Buzz (you can connect Flickr and Twitter from Buzz in Gmail), and Buzz itself is not designed to be a closed system. Our goal is to make Buzz a fully open and distributed platform for conversations. We&#8217;re building on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jay.shao.org/2010/02/10/official-google-blog-introducing-google-buzz/</link>
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