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Ed Burns

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Ed Burns is currently Principal Architect on the Java Tooling and Experiences team at Microsoft. In this role, Ed will help make Azure the best place for Enterprise Java. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Netscape 6, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and JavaServer Faces, and the Servlet specification. Ed has lead or co-lead the expert groups for Servlet and JavaServer Faces. Ed has published four books with McGraw-Hill: JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (2006), Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers: Riding the IT crest (2008) JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference (2010) and Hudson Continuous Integration In Practice (2013). To learn more about ...more

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I have made another impressively insignificant contribution to Wikipedia

It��s been nearly 19 years since my last trivial Wikipedia contribution,so high time for another one.

I recently enjoyed watching Fly Me to the Moon (2024), which got me curious about what the original TV broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing looked like. I found this video which, to my surprise, had a lunar lander set very similar to the one in the movie. But this one is clearly labeled as CBS

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	The Corner: Volume 1,Enquête Sur Un Marché De La Drogue À Ciel Ouvert by BURNS Ed SIMON David, Ed Burns (Goodreads Author), Caroline Dumoucel (Translator) 4.45 avg rating — 6,828 ratings — published 1997 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: The 200 Best Video Games of All Time by Kurt Kalata, Maciej Miszczyk (Contributor), James Baker (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardcore Gaming 101 Digest Vol. 3: The Guide to Retro Horror by Kurt Kalata, Rob Strangman, Ed Burns (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Data East Arcade Classics by Kurt Kalata, Chris Rasa, Ed Burns (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: The Guide to Beat-Em-Ups Volume 1 by Kurt Kalata, Sam Derboo, Ed Burns (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	JavaServer Faces 2.0, The Complete Reference by Ed Burns (Goodreads Author), Chris Schalk 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hudson Continuous Integration in Practice by Ed Burns (Goodreads Author), Winston Prakash 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dock Walloper 1 directors cut 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dock Walloper No. 4 Release Date May 7, 2008 by Ed Burns (Goodreads Author), Jimmy Palmiotti 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary

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Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

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“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

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“Oh, the wickedness of man is very great," said Villefort, "since it surpasses the goodness of God.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Works of Alexandre Dumas

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“(stare in dimidio rerum),”
― Victor Hugo, Complete Works of Victor Hugo

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