Since switching to the new macbook last month, I’ve loved getting to know Safari and Camino. Safari has the insane speed going for it, and Camino has the power of the Gecko engine with MacOS style. Lately I’ve been using Firefox for all first-iteration development work and Safari for all general browsing. […]
Yesterday I called Principal Financial for a question on a 401K I have held there. So far I’ve been pleasantly surprised with their customer service, as pretty much every other bank I’ve dealt with as had substandard service and horrible hold times. Well yesterday Principal blew me away. I went through the […]
Patrick has a well-reasoned comparison of IntelliJ IDEA and Textmate and how well this work with HTML/CSS. IDEA wins out for code completion and error highlighting, but Textmate wins for its light footprint and speed. Its good to see a balanced comparison of tools from someone who works with both.
Jamis highlights how easy [...]
The little icons on the bottom of blog posts, not the gum.
Its monday morning and I forgot my coffee thermos at home. Drinking corporate coffee sucks. Guess I might as well complain about Java.
Calendar - Bad.
Date - Worse? Date and Calendar might be the most ridiculous Java APIs ever created. With date you can at least say getYear or getMonth, but then [...]
When I'm cruising in Eclipse, nothing disrupts flow like having to fix stupid import problems. FOr example, I type in a reference to List and try to autocorrect it:
Oh! I wanted the standard collection type, not the AWT specific list! Here, Eclipse, let me tell you I need the the standard list [...]
If you read a lot of feeds via Bloglines, you'll know how painful managing your folders has been with the very old school interface. I noticed today that things have finally improved - real drag and drop and some prettier icons, too! No longer will I dread organizing feeds only because the UI [...]
Lets say you want to get the first n number of rows from a result set, to do pagination or because you don't care about the rest of the rows or whatever. You would think that there would be some relatively standard way defined in sql, and then the database vendors would all try [...]
Joel Spolsky and the guys at alwaysBeta take issue with the new web 2.0 calendars...
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