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Ben McCann

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Ben McCann's personal blog at benmccann.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-09, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
4HN people?
2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

What Hacker News says?

  1. You can do "java -jar MyApp.jar -Dport=8080" with both Tomcat and Jetty using what they call "embedded mode". I like the Jetty embedded mode much more because it starts up so much faster. The Tomcat embedded mode does have the benefit of an easier to understand API, but it's not worth the speed trade-off for me. Here's examples of both: http://www.benmccann.com/dev-blog/embedded-jetty/ http://www.benmccann.com/dev-b…

    Comment linking /dev-blog/embedded-tomcat/

    on “The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover)”
  2. Submitted Running Marathon and Mesos with Panamax as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. http://www.benmccann.com/dev-blog/

    Comment linking /dev-blog/

    on “Poll: Do you blog?”
  4. Submitted How to take over the computer of a Jenkins user as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Solutions for noisy offices as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted TodoMVC: An Angular vs React Comparison as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Security Lockdown for Linux as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted My first experience with Ubuntu as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Struts 2 Tutorial - Interceptors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted OpenSUSE 11.2 Setup and Review as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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