Author Archives: aroth

[Objective-C + Cocoa] iPhone Screen Capture Revisited

Posted on June 15, 2011 by aroth

Awhile back I posted a handful of simple iOS utilities. Among them was a basic ScreenCaptureView implementation that would periodically render the contents of its subview(s) into a UIImage that was exposed as a publicly accessible property. This provides the … Continue reading →

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[Java] Quarantining Request Parameters

Posted on June 12, 2011 by aroth

This is a follow-up on an earlier post in which I described a method for modifying HTTP request parameters on the fly in a servlet/web application. I mentioned that the technique could be used to provide a filter that automatically … Continue reading →

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[Java] URL Rewriting on Tomcat (or any other servlet container)

Posted on June 7, 2011 by aroth

Here is a very nice little utility I found recently on an unfortunately very difficult to navigate website. In case it’s not immediately apparent from that site what I am referring to, I’m talking about the ‘UrlRewriteFilter‘ utility featured near … Continue reading →

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[Status] The Witcher 2

Posted on May 22, 2011 by aroth

For anyone that missed it, the sequel to one of the best games ever put together was released a few days ago. I’ve been busy quickly re-playing the first game so that I could have a save-game to import into … Continue reading →

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[Java] Override HTTP Request Parameters

Posted on May 15, 2011 by aroth

Often in a Java web-application I come across cases where it would be useful to directly override or modify one or more HTTP request parameters. To be clear, by “request parameter” I am referring to the value that is returned … Continue reading →

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Social Reputation; A Tale of Two Websites

Posted on May 8, 2011 by aroth

I was recently introduced to Mixtent, a social website with the goal of assigning a reliable professional reputation to its users across a number of distinct skills. For more background information, here is a TechCrunch article from Mixtent’s launch in … Continue reading →

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Webcomix 1.0!

Posted on May 1, 2011 by aroth

It has been a little less than 1.5 months since the Webcomix beta was announced, and I think the project has finally matured to the point where it need no longer be considered a beta. During this time the number … Continue reading →

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[Status] Anti-spam Enabled

Posted on April 24, 2011 by aroth

The volume of inbound comment spam has suddenly increased from “annoying” to “completely ridiculous” and exceeded my capacity to deal with it manually. So I’ve done what I probably should have done in the first place and enabled the Akismet … Continue reading →

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Portal 2

Posted on April 23, 2011 by aroth

For anyone that hasn’t noticed, Portal 2 was released a few days ago. I’ve already played through the single-player portion of the game (the only portion that I’m interested in, to be honest), and thought I would write up a … Continue reading →

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[Status] Site Downtime

Posted on April 8, 2011 by aroth

My apologies for the recent bit of downtime. It seems like the router decided to hang while we were out on vacation, hence the long delay in rectifying the problem. By my estimates there were approximately 4 days worth of … Continue reading →

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