Week in Review 2011-32

August 12, 2011

This post is on the money. Humorous and accurate. I’ve seen this all before.
There is a very interesting podcast on the software patent situation at NPR Planet Money.
I’m in a bind! I’m ready to launch a new app (Grails based), but my VPS with 768MB memory can’t handle it (its running vsconsole already, and apache, mysql etc). [...]

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Week in Review – 2011-31

August 8, 2011

I am currently working on a JSF2 application at work, and I mostly use Firefox during the development process because I use SeleniumIDE as a development/productivity tool to quickly log in as different users and drive the browser to a certain point. Imagine my surprise when I found out that something didn’t work in IE8. [...]

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Week in Review – 2011-30

July 28, 2011

Dealing with crazy situations at work, comics, MythTV with multiple tuner cards, TDD and solving sudoko, and trying to find a new phone.

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Viewing server log files

April 6, 2011

I think viewing server logs has always been more difficult than it should have been for me.
For example, when I’m developing and debugging applications deployed to the dev and test servers, if you want to see the various log files involved it requires:

Logging in to the server (if you have an account)
Finding the log [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-33

August 21, 2010

Know of any companies in Sydney that engage in REAL agile projects – properly? Let me know, I’m interested!
I had a javascript drop-down menu that youtube video interferred with – when the menu dropped down, the youtube object covered it! I found the answer here - http://geekswithblogs.net/steveclements/archive/2007/03/03/107839.aspx – where the solution is simple:
Add nested element to [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-31

August 9, 2010

I’ve noticed a bunch of websites that just don’t pay any attention to detail. Little things:

banking sites that don’t remember your settings (i.e. for exporting statements) and you have to set them every time you export, for every account
log forms you fill it to register, and when you fail validation (like getting the CAPTCHA wrong), [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-30

August 2, 2010

Looking for some icons? Check out the fantastic work available @ webtoolkit4.me – there are some really good icon sets.
I’m always trying to find better ways of doing things and find incredible resistance to even the simplest of improvements – things that I would consider no-brainers end up subjected to business cases and long winded [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-29

July 26, 2010

I’ve installed WorldCommunityGrid on my media center, which is on 24*7 – may as well use that spare CPU time for good! I’ve been watching my ranking slowly get better, starting over 300,000 and now after 21 days of run time I’m ranked (by points) in the mid 200,000s. Along comes a friend of mine [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-28

July 18, 2010

I finally got a new battery for my laptop – it only took 3 weeks rather than the estimated 6, so finally I’m back online – on the train. It’s barely doing the job though, a new battery barely gets me to and from work – I obviously need to work closer to home! I’m [...]

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Week in Review – 2010-27

July 8, 2010

I’ve recently made updates to my grails plugins to ensure they work on Grails 1.3. I hadn’t touched them for a while, so it took a bit of effort. I haven’t had the opportunity to use Grails much lately, so I had to catch up on changes. One issue I have is that its impossible [...]

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