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POSIX Serial Programming

I've been working on a cross platform Modbus communications library and driver over the last month or so. It involved a number of communication transports – tcp/ip, direct serial port and modem...

December 28, 2004
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Ward Cunningham Interview

Check out the Ward Cunningham interview on The ServerSide.net. I identify somewhat with the following quote: I do know that a lot of times if the programmer gets good, while he is getting good, he...

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December 2, 2004
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IT Conversations Business Model

Doug Kaye of IT Conversations asked for some feedback on a business model for his site. Here's a copy of my suggestions: I personally find the variety of conferences available throughout the world...

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November 29, 2004
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Tabbed Browsing

Tabbed browsing in Firefox is way useful. Take this post from Sam Gentile: "First this one with this, and then him. Now only if we can have this one go too.!Blog tracking pixel" I didn't have a clue...

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November 25, 2004
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Whitepages Search

I had another one of those "aren't web searches amazing" moments today. In the process of trying to find the phone number of a school, I eventually gave up on www.whitepages.com.au and used the...

November 10, 2004
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