Me: I hate Java. It should die.
Non-techie boyfriend: Why?
Me: Every time I make a change to this Java web application and want to test it, I have to re-build the app, re-deploy it, and restart the server.
Non-techie boyfriend: So if it were a car…
Me: Say I’m trying to replace a battery. Were this a Rails [...]
How did this happen? It seems like yesterday I was scoffing at Google’s dastardly privacy policy, vowing to never, ever store my personal information with a company willing to give it out to just about any government agency, in whichever country, that asks.
Fast forward a couple years, and I have emails from all my domains [...]
Want to dump Windows, but don’t consider yourself a “techie”? It’s almost possible: Linux is getting more user friendly by the day. Even if you have gotten burnt before (until recently, setting up wireless was a nightmare, for instance), now is the time to consider giving it another shot. You don’t need to be an [...]
For reasons unbeknownst, OpenOffice, the open source answer to MS Word, suddenly decided that its wonderful product must copy all of Microsoft’s stupid ideas. I don’t know about you, but I always thought that this guy (”Office Assistant”, but let’s call him “Cheshire Clip”) was one of the most annoying features in Word:
So there I [...]
Perhaps it’s just the novelty, but the new Safari browser for Windows has not been irritating me. My incessant whining about Windows browsers may temporarily stop. (In case you missed it, my whining is along the lines of: Firefox 2 has memory leaks, IE7 is clunky and insecure, IE6 is just disgusting, no one supports Opera, [...]
My development company, Verdage, has finally launched a site. It’s nothing terribly exciting, but if you have nothing better to do (and you probably don’t), please take a look. Feedback is much appreciated.
There is a significant problem for businesses who want to develop in Ruby on Rails: a shortage of programmers. It’s not that there are few people who know Ruby (although compared to PHP and Java resources, I would guess that this is also a fact). The problem is, they don’t want full-time jobs.
Where .NET or [...]
There is no “best” three-column CSS layout. As always, the implementation should meet the requirements. So this is not quite a review of different layouts. But you will find links to several dozen layouts, broken down by features, compatibilities, and a pretty damned long list of footnotes.
While all the idiots out there have been waiting in line for an iPhone, T-Mobile just came out with something genius. Your mobile phone works like any ole mobile phone, eating up your minutes, but as soon as you’re in a wifi hotspot, all your calls are made through the wireless Internet connection, and no [...]