The impact of the first follower This starts out very silly and fun. By the time it was over, there were tears in my eyes. I hope that you can feel it, too. Here’s a great analysis of the first follower. I think the version of the video that I’ve posted has more raw emotional [...]
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FireFTP beats the duck crap out of CyberDuck
By Lee on Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 | No Comments
I had all kinds of grief trying to use CyberDuck with HostGator. I couldn’t log in securely. I couldn’t transfer files. It was worthless. FireFTP is a beautiful thing.
Read More...Five Things You Should Have Gotten Into Ten Years Ago
By Lee on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Image by callumalden via Flickr In the nightclub scene at the start of an episode of Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld did a great bit about Morning Guy and Night Guy: I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. “What about getting up [...]
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...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...Can you identify the source of your spam? Can you shut it down?
By Lee on Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | No Comments
It’s amazing what I can see, thanks to the use of domain-specific email addresses. I can see when one company uses another company’s mailing list. I can see when a company doesn’t honor its unsubscribe requests. I can also see when a company’s mailing list has been compromised. Best of all, I have the power [...]
Read More...What to do when Firefox eats all your CPU
By Lee on Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | No Comments
I tend to have a lot of tabs open in Firefox at any given time. It’s not unusual for me to have 20 or 30 open, and I’ve been known to hit 40 or 50 at times. (I wouldn’t survive without the sessionsaver extension.) This can sometimes get Firefox pretty upset. Windows Task Manager shows [...]
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