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I recently picked up Programming Clojure and started working through it, trying to wrap my head around this new variant of Lisp.
Installing clojure itself was pretty simple (sudo apt-get install clojure, since I’m using Ubuntu), but I had a hard time figuring out how to make the clojure contrib libraries available from the clojure REPL [...]

In Drupal, the Imagefield fieldtype comes with a built-in thumbnail generator. If you’d like to control the size of the thumbnail, just set the value of the imagefield_thumb_size variable, like so:
variable_set(’imagefield_thumb_size’, ‘200×200′);
That’ll set the imagefield thumbnail size to 200 x 200 pixels.

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If you’re using Filezilla to connect to a shared hosting account that uses cPanel, and your internet connection gets dropped during a transfer, you’re going to get an error from Filezilla when you try to reconnect after getting your internet up again.

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Had to do a fresh install of Sun’s Java on a remote Ubuntu machine this weekend. It’s pretty easy to do in a graphical environment, but I only had ssh access. Since I couldn’t find a set of instructions on how to install Sun’s Java from the command line, I thought I’d put together my [...]

After installing the 10.5.5 update for my Macbook, I noticed both wireless and wired internet access seemed slower. My wife’s Macbook, running 10.4, didn’t have the same problems.

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