Validation Errors in Eclipse and Alpha-Bits
Cartoons owned Saturday mornings, back when I was young enough to care. The commercials that wedged their way in and between The RoadRunner and The Justice League seemed to hawk either toys or breakfast...
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Gas Pump Mashup: Software and Signware
I was filling my gas tank the other day and saw this sign on the pump: Apparently, it’s easier and cheaper to slap a sign on a pump than to fix the software. I...
CodeFest 2013
Last Friday, the operations and infrastructure folks where I work were swinging the non-production environments to a new datacenter. The development managers decided to use this opportunity to challenge the developers to a “codefest”–a...
Why your password can’t have symbols—or be longer than 16 characters | Ars Technica
Why your password can’t have symbols—or be longer than 16 characters | Ars Technica: “The password creation process on different websites can be a bit like visiting foreign countries with unfamiliar social customs.” (Via....
More on “Where next for Grails”? • GRAILS.IO
More on “Where next for Grails”? • GRAILS.IO: “Grails 3.0 will be a reinvention of the framework that you love, and we will be making some hard decisions about what we support in terms...
A $5 app isn’t expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy | Macworld
A $5 app isn’t expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy | Macworld: “You don’t buy a Kindle just to enjoy the dictionary and manual that come pre-installed on the device....
Introducing Wry: A Command-line App.net Client
I’ve released a command-line App.net client for Mac OS X: Wry. Its home page is http://grailbox.com/wry. It’s released under the MIT License, and is hosted on github at https://github.com/hoop33/wry. Check it out, and let...
Application Idea: Virtualize Cloud Storage
I have a Dropbox Pro account with 107.5GB of storage, an iCloud account with 15GB of storage, and free accounts with Box (50GB), SpiderOak (2GB), GDrive (5GB), SkyDrive (7GB), ASUS WebStorage (8.5GB), Cubby (5GB),...
GeekTool Won’t Let Me Drag an Icon to the Desktop
TL;DR — Turn off Path Finder desktop to use GeekTool. I’ve been meaning to install GeekTool on my new Mac that I bought, um, over two years ago. Time flies. Anyway, I installed it...
Microsoft Doesn’t Want Me Using Windows 8
Upgrade to Windows 8 – Microsoft Windows: Purchasing a full version of Windows 8 If you want to build your own PC and install Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro, or want an additional operating system running...