Softline Local Review

Many say that local online marketing is the “next frontier”. While I have some doubts with regarding this phenomenon (my money is on the ever expanding global economy – even though I’ve got “slapped” a couple of times by companies refusing to deliver to Romania), I’ve looked at softline ...

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You go PHD Comics!

PHD Comics is always great and hilarious (and worth to subscribe to if you are even vaguely related to the academic world - like trough a friend of a friend :-)) but there are those occasions when it is epic, like this one:

![](http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd012010s.gif)

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Carving out files with Perl

I’ve had to use this trick a couple of times the last few years, so I decided that I might as well document it:

If you have an image of a storage media (like an SD card or CD/DVD) which you can not mount (either because the filesystem ...

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Should I use RoboForm?

A little background about this post: while I was vaguely aware of RoboForm, I never took a closer look at it until I saw the following post by Derek: Beware of fake shopping sites. What it basically says is that a password manager (such as Roboform) will help you avoid ...

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Who feeds me? (with information)

I received a private request to share the feeds which I read, an I though to do it publicly, since there might be other people interested in it (yeah, right :-p). Also, the least I can do is to post a link back to the authors website. So grab my ...

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Splitting hairs^H^H^H^H^H strings with Java

[![Split Personality](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/2225546021_4864c2bc72.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickwheeleroz/2225546021/ “Split Personality by nickwheeleroz, on Flickr”)

Offtopic: where does \^H come from? (since I too found it only recently) - from the source of all wisdom - Wikipedia :-p

Pressing the backspace key on a ...

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The future of web hosting

I find myself thinking more and more about (a possible) future of the web.
While the current system for web hosting works pretty well (and I am the first
to say that we shouldn’t make the perfect an enemy of the good), it would be
really nice to exploit ...

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Best web hosting?

There is a lot of talk out there about which is the “Best Web Hosting” company.
With such a highly contentious subject (since being the “best” means more
customers - and implicitly more money), there are a lot of “authoritative sources”
out there. One authoritative (without quotes!) source would be Netcraft ...

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