no buzzwords allowed
The authors of this blog also run a software company called ZeroTurnaround. We monitor the mentions of the company name and its products with different tools. I personally use Google Alerts (you get an email when the interwebz mentions your monitored word).
One day we stumbled upon a page that had stolen our website design. It [...]
I run Debian Unstable as my main desktop system. I shoot myself in the foot couple of times a year with the upgrades but I like using the bleeding edge of development.
Today after my “regular” upgrade I noticed that one of the ANT tasks did not perform as I would have expected.
/home/toomasr/workspace/project/build.xml:459: The following error [...]
Today’s software is so much about integration. You can have a cool Java utility but if you don’t have an Eclipse plugin for that, a large % of Eclipse users won’t adopt (IDEA & NetBeans users require plugins just as much). In the consumer market the same goes for browser extensions and iPhone apps [...]
I was waiting for the Gmail themes tab to appear on the settings page but it never did. I run Gmail under Prism and I hardly ever log out. Once I did do that and logged back in I finally got the themes tabs. Running terminal right now, nooooot.
The previous post on dow.ngra.de generated tons of traffic. That tons of traffic generated 120 000 requests to a style sheet file that did not exist. Wordpress will display a semi fancy page for 404 files that weighs about 25 KB. 25 KB times 120 000 is 3 000 000 KB :).
Actually the same happened [...]