This tip from the Ubuntu forum helped me set up my alps touchpad. Good work. This almost completes my Linux experience with the Toshiba M40X Satellite Pro.
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I've noticed this cute project called AndroMDA . It's a plugin for maven1 that focuses around Model Driven development. They've put this quote from Machiavelli on the front page: "And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions..." -- Niccolo Machiavelli We've had the need to modify our project's model quite a bit during the development of our application and it basically happened in the last two months. I am convinced that if we'd gone out sooner to get in touch with our end users we'd have jumped t...
During the architecting of Share.Net (the good old days when I programmed in C#) I remember that I found a great library for .Net that extracted file icons via SHGetFileInfo that also did some smart caching. Once fooling the ListBox or ComboBox that you provided a ImageList via helper methods you could use it to extract file icons and associate them immediately with you control. I looked a bit but it doesn't seems that there is an alternative managed API for doing this yet so I guess this is still the best way around this issue.
One problem with it I think is that you renounce the use of custom icons but I might be mistaken.
PS. The last revision of the article was 2003-Mar-04. This guy did some great stuff but his site is not very active any more. Who knows why...
This is so cool! Using a map to visualize news and it's size to put emphasis on it. Seems it's doing some coldfusion and black flash magic behind the curtains. Other cool thing that's gotten on the net is the cnet's news.com ontology flash where they connect related news. This stuff that used to be someone's research thesis now sits in front of you promising to give you more data that you need. Question is, do you want it, and shouldn't you get up and take a walk?
Wow...
Struts merges Beehive (NetUI page flow goodness with attributes, tied with Struts). Struts merges WebWork. WebWork merges Spring . Spring merges Struts, SpringMVS, WebWork, Hibernate, WebFlow (controller agnostic) ...
What I want to know, WTF! What should I do now, I want to develop a framework and they all start doing cool stuff making me wonder which should I choose as a platform. And what about SiteMesh? Do you have an opinion which would the best way be? Thanks!
PS. And check out Maven2, it's getting better all the time. Hmm... Sounds catchy :)
I don't know if you've noticed but lately you can see the google analytics javascript being loaded by a bunch of sites. The thing that ticks me off is that the site has gotten terribly slow and guess what, slashdot uses it and sourceforge uses it (and on a mirror download page, please!). I mean come on! These sites are some of the world's most hammered sites, and they have revenue as well. If you are going to use analytics don't ruin the experience for the rest of us. Buy the service and have dedicated servers, this way you are ruining it for the rest of us. I don't know, maybe I'm just ranting without a reason. They have greater chance to increase revenue than me, thus generating also more revenue for google but I do feel like I'm not getting the attention the service should provide.
On of the nicer things I've realized this year in programming that you can basically take various approaches to understanding issues. One that really shook my concept of things is that you can be a reductionist trying to grasp the concept of the whole or you can take the holistic approach where you actually invert the whole situation and start looking at how things interact and in what context are they doing that. One can say that it's a very Zen-kind-of-thing, like: "nothing exists by itself, we are all interconnected" sort of mantra. The project that's on everyone's lips these days is Spring and it reflects this holistic approach, letting you write code in a "light-weight" container that gives you bunch of services wiring them together layer after layer in a clean IoC pattern. I just can't wait to see what's coming next with Spring 2.0 .
Hi there my faithful reader from Russia. :) Since I've been using google's analytics service for the last couple of weeks I've been getting some really sweet data back in. It's really nice to know that there my main readers are from the US and there's someone that's reading this blog from a place called Nizhegorod (Lowercity?) the Avtozavodskiy Rayon (Car manufacturing region?) Russia, or the UK, or Taipei-Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, France, Slovakia, Philippines, Canada, Italy and India. I mean, how cool is that?
Baby needs a new pair of shoes... What I mean by that is that I've jumped on the bandwagon of promoting Firefox as the browser of choice. First of all, I'm using if full time. It's a great browser, it's tabbed browsing is a great feature along pop-up blocking, free extensions, rss bookmarks and the newly released 1.5 version is even better. One great extension that you can get is the Google Toolbar for Firefox. It's latest version now gets most searched keywords on the fly so it has gotten even better. If you are convinced please use the button on the right. Take back the web!
The presentation went really nice, there were some 50 people and the arguments that we dealt with were well received. I was very nervous but comments that I got were all positive so I guess my first presentation to a larger audience went rather well. I talked about the framework 2.0, what's new in it and VisualStudio 2005. When we publish the thing on our site I'll paste the link to it here as well (it in Italian).
If you know how to speak macedonian check this forum post . It's posted by a guy that went from Macedonia to Russia spoken in the capitol's slang but it makes the post even better. You'll see his interesting voyage and his view on Ukraine and Russia. If you scroll the comments the guy posted also part two. Sweet
I'm a member of the MS Faculty Club and today I'm about to give a presentation of the .Net framework 2.0 and VisualStudio 2005. I'm nervous more than a bit as I've had a very small amount of time to prepare it and I don't feel I've completely digested all the things I'm about to present and people might actually have questions. Plus it's my first presentation in front of an audience ever, I've been working with Java for the past 6 months and my friends are going to be in the audience (let's hope there will be no professors). Anyhow, back to putting things up, preparing the arguments, timing it and writing it down. Hold me luck!