January 2012
5 posts
Making QR Codes even dorkier with ANSI/ASCII
At my current startup we generate QR codes as an option to connect to a mobile campaign.
I have mixed feelings about QR codes:
For now only marketing people and dorks like myself know what they are.
You need a special app to scan the code.
They look like ugly noise and for some reason look disingenuous.
“Hey what happened to that crossword puzzle!”
“It won’t...
IQ, EQ, MQ ... another triangle.
From Twitter “IQ =Intellectual Quotient, EQ=Emotional Quotient, MQ=Moral Quotient; thus Mind/Body/Soul” Dipak Jain, Instead #WEF #Davos
Some what analogous to my Think, Do, Share triangle.
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Get Maven to use the latest version for a... →
I finally figured out how to get maven to use the latest version of a dependency while keeping the builds reproducible. What PITA.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30571/how-do-i-tell-maven-to-use-the-latest-version-of-a-dependency/8795380#8795380
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HttpServletRequest getRequestURL() is dumb
Every time I have to wrap a Servlet Request for a filter I’m always reminded of the strangeness of getRequestURL() and its brother getRequestURI().
For the most part getRequestURI() makes sense if you know what it does. I say “know” because its javadoc is rather questionable. It returns only the path and not the query parameters, host, port, and scheme. Ideally it should be...