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The Cost of Incompetent Programmers

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PHP New Hire Diagram

This topic comes up for me not necessarily as a rant, but as I was going through some old notes before tossing them away, and this issue came up. How much damage can an organization do to themselves by hiring discount, unqualified programming resources?

The answer: A hell of a lot.

If you own a small software development shop, do yourself a huge favor and keep reading.

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Xythos Broken Advanced Upload Functionality

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We use Xythos at our workplace to provide a file repository for students and eventually faculty and staff. It’s basically a web front end for a file system.

My personal feelings about the product are somewhat ho-hum and indifferent. It makes funny noises under the hood, it’s a bit clunky, but it works, runs on Linux and it’s reliable.

So you’re probably here because you searched on this error:

java.lang.ClassFormatError: Truncated class file

The problem is that you’re probably running your Xythos installation over port 443 (as you should) but there are still components trying to pull files down from port 80. With Xythos, if SSL is enabled, any requests to port 80 get dumped over to 443, and you will get truncated errors like above.

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Written by Tijger Tsou

February 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 am

Bounce It Off My Head

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Bounce it off my head!

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December 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm

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Smoothie Sale

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Smoothie Sale

Yeah. This is how i feel right about now.

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November 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

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