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All Consuming

Out of curiosity I just did a Google search for "digitalhobbit" to find any references to my site (not that I really expected any...). One of the links that was returned among the top search results was this one....

July 27, 2004 · 1 min · 167 words · DigitalHobbit

XML Object Mapping

I have recently had a chance to look into several XML object binding frameworks, including JAXB, Castor, and JiBX. As usual, each framework has its strengths and its weaknesses....

July 26, 2004 · 4 min · 652 words · DigitalHobbit

Amazon Plog II

Even though the Amazon Plog initially did not show up for me when this feature was first launched, it started to show up a few days ago. The name definitely seems like a poor marketing idea, since this feature has absolutely nothing to do with a blog, other than its blog-like layout and the reverse-chronological order....

July 20, 2004 · 1 min · 113 words · DigitalHobbit

Pragmatic Project Automation

The third book in the Pragmatic Starter Kit series, "Pragmatic Project Automation", is now available, either from Amazon or from the Pragmatic Programmer website. I have read and can thoroughly recommend the other two books in the series, "Pragmatic Version Control" (Amazon link) and "Pragmatic Unit Testing" (Amazon link)....

July 20, 2004 · 1 min · 76 words · DigitalHobbit

Bitoogle

Here's an interesting site: Bitoogle, a BitTorrent search engine (via Boing Boing). It's funny how BitTorrent, which was really just implemented to speed up downloads of large files and not for filesharing, turned into a popular and efficient filesharing application...

July 19, 2004 · 1 min · 40 words · DigitalHobbit