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On Small Classes and Short Methods

2008-05-02T17:35:48Z

I took up the challenge posted over at Binstock regarding Small Classes and Short Methods and have to say it was an interesting exercise. Overall implementing these suggestions made for much more readable code, and it was certainly more OO after I...

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Eclipse, OS X, and SoyLatte

2008-04-02T20:48:57Z

Current revisions of Eclipse prevent the use of SoyLatte, the OpenJDK port of Java 1.6 for OS X 10.4/10.5. There is an open bug about this, and even better a patch for StandardVMType attached to the bug. I've applied the patch and it does indeed w...

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"Fanboys" and the IT media

2007-10-12T17:16:21Z

Here is what I've come to learn from the mainstream IT media: If you prefer Linux to Windows, and encourage its use to others, you are a fanboy and/or fantaic If you prefer OS X to Windows, and encourage its use to others, you are a fanboy and/or...

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GNU Screen

2007-10-12T15:05:49Z

I tend to avoid evangelism of any sort these days, but if you are a unix weenie of any flavor and do not use screen then you are, quite frankly, not cool. Screen needs some help to make it more visually appealing, so here's a snippet from my .sc...

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JCaptcha and ImageFilters

2007-10-10T20:01:03Z

FYI: JCAPTCHA uses the robust set of ImageFilters from JH Labs. These include a WarpFilter, which is what I was looking for but was unable to find. For a while. A long while. Far longer than it should have. The documentation for it could be impr...

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Merging CSS stylesheets with Python

2007-06-20T21:46:24Z

Friend of mine asked for something to merge two stylesheets together. I've been dinking with Python here and there when I have the time, and this was the result. It could definitely be improved, namely to work with X number of stylesheets, but it ...

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Three Utils Every Unix Person Should Know

2007-05-16T20:37:39Z

There are three applications that come preinstalled with most *nix distros that if you spend any time whatsoever at a bash prompt make life vastly easier. vi/vim - IMHO everyone should at least have basic familiarity with vi. It's damn near alw...

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Control characters being ignored in Terminal.app

2007-02-08T18:11:16Z

Occasionally when working in Terminal.app I've experienced strange behavior at seemingly random times where my control characters would no longer be interpreted by the shell. For example, take the following: [1204][macjavadev@Ivan:~] grep -ri asd...

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Weird problem with iCal meeting invites

2007-01-31T20:01:14Z

About a week ago iCal started giving me an error whenever I would try and accept a meeting invite. The error was sporadic, only happening about half the time: Someone invited you to an event using an email address that isn’t on your “me” card in...

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MacFUSE and SpotlightFS

2007-01-25T17:48:24Z

I tried SpotlightFS for a while yesterday and was unfortunately not that impressed. It's a nice concept, but still needs work. You are limited to multi-word searches (no booleans) so it's difficult to refine the results such that they are useful. ...

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