Name my boat, winner gets $10!!!

 Tuesday May 5, 2009
 
After catching many big fish on rented boats and years of talking smack about buying one, I finally buckled down and did it. This past weekend I picked up a 12ft Tracker Jon boat at my local the Bass Pro Shop. read more... 
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Maryland Home Owner Tax Deductions

 Tuesday March 31, 2009
 
Did you know that you can deduct the interest from building a fence, or installing a swimming pool?

I recently stumbled across this great article that explains in plain English all of the tax deductions you can make just for being a home owner in Maryland.

Tax Deductions for Owning Your Home Maryland


 
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Maven Surefire not running Unit Tests

 Friday February 20, 2009
 
I recently encountered a frustration situation where no matter what I tried, I could not get Maven's Surefire plug-in to find and run my jUnit tests. I tried everything, including re-installing my build environment, updating my Maven install to the latest version, switched workspaces, nothing....

I finally resolved the issue by completely cleaning our my local Maven configuration settings (settings.xml) and then re-running my build.

Sometimes its the smallest issues that take the longest to fix.  
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9 Totally Free Icons sets for your Website

 Thursday February 19, 2009
 
One of the greatest gifts of our profession (software developers) is the vast amount of resources on the web to help make our jobs easier. Today, I'm posting this list of various web icons sets that are free to use. Hope you enjoy. read more... 
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I'm up 200%+ today in the Market

 Wednesday February 18, 2009
 
Every once in a while Google geeks out and shows some funky stuff on my iGoogle Finance Portfolio widget....today its telling me that my Vanguard investments are up over 200%... Man I wish that were true..

 
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