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Week in Review

Week in Review - 2010-03

January 22, 2010

Getting my Virgin Mobile Broadband working, vlc media player rocks, playing with Wordpress, and reading up on Joomla.

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The week in review - 2008-52

December 29, 2008

I’ve just discovered that commons-transactions offers a transactional file service allowing atomic read and writes on a filesystem.
Theres a good write up here about the evolution of Wordpress. I love stories like this, because it reinforces the fact that software doesn’t have to be perfect when it is released. Releasing early and often can work, [...]

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The week in review - 2008-51

December 22, 2008

I’ve had to disable MemoKeys because it interferes with Intellij. I often use ALT-F1 to locate a file in the project tree, but this doesn’t work because MemoKeys is intercepting the F1.
There is some awesome goodness coming in Grails 1.1 - check out the release notes for the Beta.
I just had a requirement to open [...]

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The week in review - 2008-50

December 16, 2008

A friend must have seen my comment about JDiskReport, and mentioned WinDirStat to me. I’d never seen it before. It’s a similar product to JDiskReport but for windows only.
I recently tried installing 64 bit ubuntu on a spare partition on my laptop - it already had Vista and 32 bit Ubuntu dual booted with Grub. [...]

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The week in review - 2008-49

December 6, 2008

I’ve been looking for a convenient way to re-use some old harddisks for backup purposes. I think this cable is just what I’m looking for. It appears to support both IDE drives as well as SATA so it means I can get some extra life out of the old disks while still using it for [...]

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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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