As we celebrate the new year, watch and remember the biggest moments of 2011 by Google
December 31, 2011
by Marius Voila
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Category Archives: Personal
December 30, 2011
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Track your Gmail address and fight spam
One of the biggest e-irritants I have is that my email address gets “sold” to companies to spam me with promotions by businesses I use (and they deny it). This trick should help identify those buggers. The trick uses the … Continue reading
December 30, 2011
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To those who say Google+ is dead, dying or a failure
Please try this: 1. Go to Twitter.com from a fresh browser, ie, not logged in. 2. Sign up for a new account, name it anything you like. 3. Without following anyone, sit and view your stream for a little while. … Continue reading
December 16, 2011
by Marius Voila
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Deep Purple epic concert
I’m walking back to my place from the Deep Purple concert and I’m a bit disappointed because of the Ian Gillan’s voice, I mean I know he is old and all but what the heck when you see you can’t … Continue reading
December 14, 2011
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New life update
I’m currently listening to all of my Deep Purple music right now (not just the Christmas stuff) while writing up the new website for some clients of mine and a API. I mentioned about Deep Purple because they are coming … Continue reading
December 4, 2011
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Zombie Code
If there’s anything I hate more than dead code, it’s zombie code. Dead code is code that’s remained in the system even though it’s no longer really used. It might be small, like unused imports, instance variables and methods. It … Continue reading
November 27, 2011
by Marius Voila
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Eclipse Meets Vim And Emacs
Here’s a great tool named Eclim which brings Eclipse to vim and there’s an emacs port as well. I’ve tested for both vim and emacs and I think vim version is better than the emacs version. Emacs version needs work. … Continue reading
October 31, 2011
by Marius Voila
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My one week without “Social Media”
It may be hard to imagine in today’s world, but there was once a time when computers didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist. If you go back far enough, there was even a time the written word didn’t exist. We … Continue reading
October 19, 2011
by Marius Voila
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Data replication using lsyncd
One of my favorite Linux utilities I’ve discovered recently is lsyncd, a live syncing (mirror) daemon. Following the traditional Unix philosophy, it does data replication simply and it does it very well. Using some fancy inotify magic, lsyncd will spawn … Continue reading
October 13, 2011
by Marius Voila
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Python Interface for AWS Route53
After taking a quick look at Boto’s Route53 interface, I realized that it was just way too cumbersome and awkward to be useful. I decided to make it a little more user-friendly, so without further ado, I introduce Area53. Now … Continue reading