*sigh* If you search for the sysdeo plugin for developing Tomcat on Eclipse, you’ll find that every link in the blasted world points to the English site, which is now gone. A little investigation and puzzling out some random french, and I found where it’s now located on the French site. Hopefully if anyone is [...]
I’d love to see someone write a book on the “trial and error” company. Because that’s what most web companies really are: once they get a web application up on the web and start attracting customers, they can quickly use the statistics they gather as to how users reach their site and how they use [...]
Today I tried a dry run, testing out my new bicycle to ride into Yahoo Burbank. I also equipped it with a Garmin eTrex Vista CX GPS on a bike handlebar mount, so I can figure out which side streets to take and know my altitutde and speed. Six miles, and when I got to [...]
From Daring Fireball: Apple is the one and only PC maker that sees the first-run experience as an opportunity to make you happy, rather than as an opportunity to make a few bucks by showing you ads and stuffing trialware down your throat. How true. Advertisers know about this. They know that when you sell [...]
On coding, from The Old New Thing: Code is read much more often than it is written, so plan accordingly.
My parents can’t get Microsoft Excel to work. The symptoms was that after installing some other program, suddenly when they open a document they are greeted with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet–but the entire content area is gray. No cells, no editing, no joy–just a large gray expance where the data should be. But the application [...]