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Donal Fellows
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I'm a software engineer at the University of Manchester, working on Scientific Data Management Infrastructure, Apache Taverna Server, Grids and Clouds, and the standardization thereof. I'm also a member of the Tcl Core Team.

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Omitting the first line from any Linux command output
Sep 6, 2011
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PUT vs. POST for Uploading Files - RESTful API to be Built Using Zend Framework
Jan 18, 2013
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How can I handle many-to-many relationships in a RESTful API?
Jun 13, 2011
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make : rule call rule
Dec 27, 2011
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Escaping chars in Python and sqlite
Jul 10, 2010
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How do I list / export private keys from a keystore?
Apr 8, 2011
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Why do I get "unable to open database file" while it works from a unit test?
Jan 9, 2011
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POSIX threads and signals
Apr 4, 2010
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Java Name Hiding: The Hard Way
Jul 4, 2014
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Spring annotations @Repository and @Service
Jun 6, 2011

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What's the point of the suffrage and vox populi badges?
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Clean up the [*language*] tags
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Stop randomly determining questions about server software to be off-topic: write proper guidelines or leave them alone
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Can this tag be [fixed]? Or should we burninate it?
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The [tk] tag should not be a synonym of [tkinter]

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Is this a decent use-case for goto in C?
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What does HATEOAS offer for discoverability and decoupling besides ability to change your URL structure more or less freely?
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The most easily gamed* GOLD badge, and yet impossible to "earn"
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How does a movie theater seat booking system prevent multiple users from reserving the same seats?
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What does "flatten" mean?