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• Apr 21, 2012 eGit with Self-Signed Certificate

  

  When deciding to host my git repository over https and a server using a self-signed certificate, I came across the issue of eGit (correctly) not trusting the self-signed certificate presented by my server. Eclipse gave me the following error: https://server/git/java/monkeywrench.git: … Read more

• Apr 07, 2012 Building QuickFAST from Source on Linux

  

  QuickFAST is an open source decompression implementation for the FIX FAST (Fix Adapted for STreaming) protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST_protocol). More information on QuickFAST can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/quickfast/ Essentially, FIX (Financial Information eXchange) messages can be compressed before being sent over TCP/IP or … Read more

• Apr 03, 2012 Optimizing Netbeans

  

  One of the things that I found most annoying with developing C++ applications using Netbeans was a constant lag due to Netbeans parsing my C++ applications for code completion and error detection. I would check my Task Manager and notice … Read more

• Apr 02, 2012 Remove <p> Tags from the_excerpt() in WordPress

  

  I came across an issue where every time I used the_excerpt() in order to print out a Post excerpt, a <p></p> tag set was being appended before and pre-pended after the excerpt! To fix this I simply added the following … Read more

• Apr 01, 2012 Custom Fields in WordPress

  

  For each Post or Page in WordPress, you can define “custom fields” for that Page that allow you to do a lot of interesting and powerful things for that particular Page. To define a Custom Field, first open up a … Read more