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I Write Like - Analyzes Writing Style

I Write Like is a website that analyzes your writing and suggests a writer your style is similar to.

The result is an answer like this:…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 16, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

UBOS ::: a new Linux distribution you'll love

Our friends at LinuxJournal ( hi Doc) posted this fascinating article about Ubos I'm sure many of you will enjoy:



http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/youre-boss-ubos

"UBOS focuses on making the administration of home servers much simpler", says Johannes Ernst.

From Doc's article:

"Says Johannes:

My goal is to make the administration…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 15, 2015 at 8:55am — No Comments

Open Source Bridge Conference Call For Papers

Open Source Bridge is a software conference in Portland that equips you for the whole year with news and information to help you be the best developer you can be...and collaborate. Here's some info, and tomorrow night I'll raffle off a free…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 10, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

GatorJUG Tomorrow at First Magnitude Brewing

I ran into Steve from First Magnitude at Ward's yesterday. Sure am looking forward to tomorrow's GatorJUG. Last time, a couple of developers from Opie Software just happened to be there. I'll have a few interesting new books to talk about, one in particular is called "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript". Adam…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 10, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

Java 7 EOL

Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).

As outlined in the Oracle JDK Support Roadmap, after April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7 to its public download sites.

This might be a good time to read …

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Added by Adam Davis on March 4, 2015 at 10:22pm — No Comments

Starting and Running Your Own Company, by Matt Raible

My good bud Matt just published an article about his business and I think it's worth sharing: http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/how_to_setup_your_own1

Matt's sees consistent success for a few reasons. One: he is passionate about the technology. You can't go far in a business with…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 3, 2015 at 11:00am — No Comments

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