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Palm DB file format

Posted September 21st, 2004 by admin

One reference
Conduit Developers’ Guide
Building Palm Conduits – O’ReilleyNet article

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Lessons Learned from the Startup Front

Posted September 18th, 2004 by admin

Don’t buy old, used Sun boxes off of ebay and use them for mission-critical work. Just don’t do it. The $1000 you will save will be wasted in the time it spends to clean up the box, put it online and fix all of the hardware problems it will inevitably have.
If you have to break [...]

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Ruby On Rails

Posted September 13th, 2004 by admin

According to Porter, Ruby on Rails what all the cool kids are using.
Looks promising. After using Struts, which is elegant until you try to do something fancy, and PHP, Java’s bastard child, this might be a good thing to try.

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String Similarity

Posted September 8th, 2004 by admin

An Interesting String Similarity Algorithm that works by counting the number of adjacent character pairs in two words that match.

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