Monthly Archives: December 2008

helpful quotes about programming

Here are a few lines about programming, from my experience as a programmer for the last six years, that I think will be useful for other programmers or potential programmers. “Sometimes you need to unfocus to see clearly” Sometimes you’re buried deep down in a big mess of code, configuration files, logs, programs inputs/outputs that [...]

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telnet saves the day!

One of the best tools for solving connectivity problems is telnet. I know that it’s ancient, but I find it very useful! (It’s almost like vi, you know it will always be there) I have gotten used to the idea of working from my computer in other servers, I can ssh into any server and [...]

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Vista's problem with 127.0.0.1 and Tomcat

Fortunately, I no longer have to deal with Windows XP, Vista or anything like that (unless I’m testing web sites with IE7 or IE6 or trying to see an MS Project file). But, I’d say that 95% of the time I don’t have to deal with Microsoft’s problems. Last Friday, indirectly, I had to deal [...]

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