Today I had an amusing problem… a friend wanted me to send him all of the pictures that I took this weekend, and he wanted to get them in about an hour or two. No problem I thought, so I just took the memory card, slapped in my laptop, and prepared to zip the files [...]
Archive for June, 2007
“Please Tomcat, I beg of you! Please release my jars!”
June 10th, 2007
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Been spending this morning in a local coffee shop hacking away and improving my JSF skills, when I ran across an annoying problem… each time I undeployed my webapp so I could redeploy, it leaves the jar files behind (keeping me from redeploying). The only way I could successfully deploy after this was to stop [...]
Annoyed With Vista’s Zip Program, Part 2
June 9th, 2007
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After making my last post, my estimated time to finish extracting eclipse jumped from 2 hours to 5 days. 5 days to extract 300mb of data from a zip file. Maybe I’d been duped? Maybe my new laptop is really as low rate as my last one? I decided to make a beeline to 7Zip’s [...]
Annoyed With Vista
June 9th, 2007
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Today I finally replaced my old and busted Dell Inspiron 1100 with a spanking new Sony Vaio (with 2.33Ghz Dual Core, 2GB of RAM, and all that good stuff) and finally got to use Vista…. I got to say I was impressed with the eye candy. But now I’m a little annoyed with the built [...]
Xunit Patterns is Out!
June 6th, 2007
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Just after lunch today I saw the following email in my inbox from the xunitpatterns mailing list: The book “xUnit Test Patterns – Refactoring Test Code” is now available at your favourite book seller and via PDF download. Please see http://xunitpatterns.com for details and referral links to amazon.xxx. Thanks for all you help, Gerard Awesome. [...]
