Where Are The Wise Men?

I’ve been hearing a lot about Firebug lately, and even had a hard-core web guy tell me, “You should really be using Firebug.”  This morning I needed to do some deep JavaScript changes. I knew that it would be ugly, so I installed it.

And, wow.  That’s all I can say.

You can turn Firebug  on and [...]

I have considered iTerm one of my must-have OSX apps since I first got my MacBook Pro.  But I haven’t always kept it up to date.  On Friday evening, my MBP was running very, very slow.  I started shutting things down and, when I stopped iTerm, things sped up tremendously.  I usually have iTerm open [...]

At my new job, I now have a lot of co-workers that are in the US on a green card trying to become US citizens, some that are trying to get their green cards, and others that have H1 visas that are just beginning their green card process, and have no flexibility in their employment [...]

Coming home from our weekend adventures, we decided to stop at the car wash because our van was filthy.  Leah was excited to get a clean car — I thought it was because she like to go through the car wash.

When we were about half-way through, I looked back and Leah was sitting in her [...]

I have been excited to read this book for a very long time, but have never been able to find it at the library (i.e. always checked out). I was in a co-worker’s office one day and saw it on his bookshelf. I picked it up and told them I’ve always wanted to [...]

From Dennis Forbes - Pragmatic Software Development : Process, People, Programming

SLOC, if you haven’t been afflicted with it, is an easily computed count of the number of lines of code in a given project/component/object

He goes on to say that a large amount of lines of source generally means that the code bad condition.  I totally [...]

Denny Hartford posted a Real Audio version of an older broadcast where he talks about why he and his wife won’t see The Lord of the Rings movies.  An insightful reasoning on why the book is always better.  Click The Book Den: Seeing vs Reading

To really understand this story, you have to understand that the temperature was 1°F.

When I got to my car this morning, I realized I forgot my hat and gloves in the house. I decided I didn’t need them — I didn’t wait that long for the bus in the afternoon, in the morning I wait [...]

The problem — upload a file and put it into a Blob in an Oracle database. The file upload was easy (Thanks Jakarta!) but saving it to the database was a different story. I found many, many examples on the web, but none of them quite worked. Then I read a post [...]

Testers wanted.

The Jython Project The Jython development team is proud to announce a new release: Jython 2.2 Beta1!

It’s been a long, wild ride from Jython 2.1 to this point. Let’s help them get this out the door quickly.

Congrats to all the developers to get the code to this point!