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Comment on Hello world! by Mr WordPress

Mr WordPress — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:48:15 +0000

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Comment on JDom, XPath and the saga of the invisible namespace by anon_anon

anon_anon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:26:48 +0000

VTD-XML is 10x faster and 5x more memory efficient than JDOM or DOM4J vtd-xml

Comment on Road safety and an apology by Chris Tarttelin

Chris Tarttelin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:08:05 +0000

I have always been a slow driver by UK standards. Then a year ago, I moved to Canada, and discovered I was a comparative speed demon. I can’t imagine what the carnage would be like if they replaced roundabouts in London with 4-way stops. Here, everyone knows it takes 10 minutes to get where you are going, so no one is in a hurry and everyone drives considerately.

Comment on Road safety and an apology by Andy Palmer

Andy Palmer — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:53:09 +0000

I agree, although I think that the British standard of driving is pretty good.
On motorways, people tend to act fairly predictably.

In Sydney, if you try to change lanes, people will generally try to block you if you indicate before you change lanes. If you don’t hit the pedal as soon as the lights go green, they lean on the horn (even if you’re a learner)
Driving on the motorways in Sydney scares me because people don’t react in a predictable way (at least in Britain, it may be selfish, but it’s consistent)

+1 for making people ride motorbikes first

Comment on Dammit, WordPress by darren

darren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:18:10 +0000

Yes, that code did work for me. There’s more details in the original article that I linked to.

Comment on Dammit, WordPress by Greg

Greg — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:47:53 +0000

Hi Darren,

Sorry to bother you, and indeed to place this message in inappropriate location, but I am pulling my hair out at the moment, attempting to get a JDOM XPath to select elements in an unprefixed namespace, exactly what you describe in your post http://darrenhobbs.com/?tag=xpath

This looks like it should work, and is how I’d implement in xsl or .net, but does not seem to work in JDOM. Just wondered, could you tell me if that code actually worked for you?

Kind Regards,
Greg

Comment on Chrome / V8 Javascript performance by Recent Faves Tagged With "md5" : MyNetFaves

Recent Faves Tagged With "md5" : MyNetFaves — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:20:29 +0000

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Comment on Java has GUID’s built in by Darren Hobbs » Blog Archive » Java GUID / UUID Update

Darren Hobbs » Blog Archive » Java GUID / UUID Update — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:14:30 +0000

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Comment on Don’t play with a loaded regex, kids by Bookmarks about Regex

Bookmarks about Regex — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:30:09 +0000

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Comment on The many dimensions of time in software by darren

darren — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:34:19 +0000

That was the page I was looking for (but failed to find) when I wrote this post. Thanks!