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Web Browser Developer Tools and Layout Engines

A layout engine a.k.a web browser engine or browser rendering engine is a component that parses HTML, XML, CSS, Images etc. and renders it on the screen. A browser developer tool lets you inspect, debug, analyze and diagnose issues with CSS, HTML, Scr… Continue reading

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

Short week, but people were still both funny and insightful. Wonders never cease. Leading the pack was ken with his simple reminder of a useful aphorism:

Just like the saying goes “you have tyranny when the people fear their government and you have … Continue reading

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A First Look at Building Java with Gradle

I left JavaOne 2011 with several take-aways. One of the most significant was a renewed interest in learning more about Gradle. In this post, I look at using Gradle and at migrating a simple Ant build script to Gradle.

Gradle installation is easy. Grad… Continue reading

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Compressing JPG Images with Groovy

I recently had need to reduce the size of a large number of JPG images. I did not want to do this one at a time in a graphics manipulation tool, so scripting seemed like the obvious choice. These days, Groovy is my generally my preferred tool for scrip… Continue reading

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Mike Masnick’s Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

Okay, so every week we have someone do a “favorites of the week” post, but I’ve never had the chance to do one myself. So… I picked the shortest week of the year to do it myself. I’m not going to point to any of my own posts (that’s cheating!), but… Continue reading

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New Navigation / New Primary Sponsor

I just pushed out a new main navigation on the site. The reasons were twofold.

One, I needed to add a few new sections to the site. Go check em out! I added a gallery section where I can post screenshots of design stuff that I like. I’ve been using LittleSnapper to capture that stuff forever, so I thought I’d actually post it somewhere online too. There is also an Almanac section that is currently in progress where I…

New Navigation / New Primary Sponsor is a post from CSS-Tricks

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File Management in Java with Guava’s Files Class

Both Groovy and Java SE 7 provide improvements for file management in Java as I discussed in posts here, here, here, and here. However, when a particular Java application is not able to yet use Java SE 7 or Groovy for its file management, an improved f… Continue reading

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The Thankful Software Developer

Neil McAllister’s Fatal Exception blog post What I’m thankful for as a developer is timely given the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the United States. In that post, McAllister expresses gratitude for open source tools, online documentation and support… Continue reading

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A Message For Congress Over Thanksgiving

As we head off to take a short break for Thanksgiving, I thought we’d pass along a Thanksgiving greeting card that was sent to me this morning. Unfortunately, the reports making the rounds today suggest that some are looking to pass a lot more than ju… Continue reading

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Sarkozy Worried About The Internet ‘Stealing Audience Share’ From ‘Regulated’ TV Services

Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright system in the digital world. She made her remarks at the Forum d’Avignon in France, which was about “strengthening th… Continue reading

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