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Archive for the ‘software’ Category
Mac leaves the top off the toothpaste
By Lee on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | No Comments
I ‘m one of those Windows-to-Mac guys. The transition was pretty painless, for the most part, since I’m a geek. And, for the most part, I’m happy with my MacBook Pro. But it’s got these irritating habits that I think are the technological equivalent of leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube. No Home, End, [...]
Read More...org.apache.bsf.BSFException: unable to load language
By Lee on Friday, September 5th, 2008 | No Comments
I’m jazzed about creating a JRuby DSL for message manipulation in SonicMQ/Sonic ESB. No time to go into the details right now, but I ran into a problem that I couldn’t find an answer for. Maybe this will help the next poor soul… I was able to run this service on my laptop without any [...]
Read More...Using Xara Xtreme to create a web site
By Lee on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | No Comments
Thanks to Xara Xtreme, I’ve just created what is by far the most attractive web site I’ve ever created in my life. Unfortunately, however, it has a couple of problems. First of all, in order to inject PayPal buttons into the site, I had to do the export to .HTML and then edit the .html [...]
Read More...Free trial of Maileable
By Lee on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | No Comments
For years now, I’ve been managing my email, fighting spam, and spotting phishing emails through the use of an email routing system that I developed. The problem with today’s email system is that anyone can put email into your inbox without anything more than your email address. Yes, you can put things like filters, whitelists, and [...]
Read More...Symlinks for Windows
By Lee on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments
One of the handiest things I learned at No Fluff Just Stuff this weekend was from Neal Ford, who showed a way to set up soft links (symbolic links, symlinks, it’s all the same idea) in Windows. This allows you to install different versions of JDKs, Tomcat, Groovy, Grails, JRuby, whatever, and use the latest [...]
Read More...One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in code. Ever.
By Lee on Friday, August 24th, 2007 | No Comments
I went to the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) meeting on Tuesday night. The speaker was Jeff Brown of Object Computing, and the topic was Groovy. I’ve been dabbling with Ruby, Groovy, and JRuby, for quite some time now. (Among other things, I’ve created Ruby and Groovy services for Sonic ESB.) I’ve never been a [...]
Read More...What an accomplishment!
By Lee on Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | No Comments
Who ever would have thought that moving a blog could be such a major endeavor?! For about three years, I’ve been running my blog on Pebble, a Java-based web app, running in Tomcat. For some reason, though, Pebble sort of lost its mind many months ago. I’ve been unable to post, or I could post [...]
Read More...GMail hover “From:” address broken?
By Lee on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | No Comments
What’s happened to GMail? I used to be able to hover over the sender’s text name and see a pop-up hint showing the actual email address. That stopped working a week or two ago. I miss it!
Read More...CodeGear (Borland) building a Ruby IDE
By Lee on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 | No Comments
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