From the monthly archives:

November 2008

The week in review - 2008-48

November 29, 2008

I’ve installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell 1525. I had 8.04 and I could have upgraded but I like having a clean install, and because with Linux its so easy! When I’m done I’ll share my backup and re-install scripts via google-code. I’ve got /home on a separate partition so the installation really just means [...]

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The week in review - 2008-47

November 23, 2008

It is a good time for releases:

Ubuntu 8.10
Grails-1.0.4
Intellij IDEA 8.0
Netbeans 6.5

Looking around the train platform today I wondered when telecommuting is going to make a significant impact. Everyone needs to be somewhere else - and that puts a lot of strain on the public transport infrastructure. I’ve had few jobs I couldn’t have done from [...]

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The week in review - 2008-46

November 17, 2008

Something was using a port on my windows machine and consequently I couldn’t run one of our applications - I came across this article which shows how to identify what application is using a port. This was extremely quick and useful and let me know which processes to kill via task manager. It worked without [...]

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The week in review - 2008-45

November 7, 2008

When Firefox 3 came out, I remember reading a lot of fuss about the AwesomeBar - a lot of people complained about it. Well, I loved it when I first saw it, and I still love it. Occasionally I have to fire up IE6 to check some rendering and thats when I really notice how [...]

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The week in review - 2008-44

November 2, 2008

I was happy to see ‘Compile on Save‘ added to Netbeans. This is a feature I’ve always appreciated in Eclipse, its always worked and always made for a good experience. This was one of the top items preventing me from moving away from Eclipse. I want to play with it in Netbeans, and see if [...]

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