Yearly Archives for 2009

Netbeans, Aptana and Debugging AIR Apps

2009 Dec 26 at 03:07 » Tagged as: ndb , air , netbeans , ria
It's been a while since Aptana 2.0 came out. I ignored it till version 2.02 was out. As usually happ...

Gnash WTF?

2009 Dec 13 at 05:34 » Tagged as: gae , netbeans , weird
My machine got really slowed down all of a sudden I suspected Netbeans and did a `ps -ef | grep java...

Twitter Search API inconsistency

2009 Nov 29 at 13:43 » Tagged as: january effect , javascript , search , twitter , xml
In recent weeks, it seems like I spent most of my time finding bugs in the twitter API or third part...

Solving a Twitter OAuth and Incorrect Signatures Mystery

2009 Nov 25 at 10:28 » Tagged as: xmpppy , security , twitter
If you see a Twitter or Facebook app that asks for your username and password you should run a mile....

Fedora 12 Post Install Cleanup.

2009 Nov 21 at 08:24 » Tagged as: javafx , lame
Upgrading Fedora is easy. It's the post upgrade clean up that kills you. As already mentioned, the m...

Fedora 12 (Rant)

2009 Nov 20 at 02:45 » Tagged as: javafx , lame , x11
It is said that thanks to Fedora's half yearly release cycle, you always get to use cutting edge tec...

Broadband speedtest

2009 Oct 29 at 09:14 » Tagged as: road.lk , broadband
The other day, an idiot from SLT, tried to convince me that their 512kb/s ADSL line is as fast as a ...

Cloud hosting

2009 Oct 21 at 11:33 » Tagged as: cpu , virtualization
If you believe everything that cloud hosting companies tell you, thanks to them, small businesses, s...

How not to sell computers running linux (part 2).

2009 Sept 28 at 10:24 » Tagged as: guar , lame
Having successfully persuaded one of my friends to buy an Ezy SlimTop, which is an Intel Atom based ...

Apple Tries To Turn People Off Java?

2009 Sept 23 at 12:02 » Tagged as: android , lame
Tried to load a page with an applet in FF for the first time since upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leop...

Thawing out the Snow Leopard

2009 Sept 21 at 12:18 » Tagged as: emacs , macbook
The other day, I upgraded from to OS X Snow Leopard and I wasn't entirely pleased with Apple. Howeve...

A Shivering Snow Leopard

2009 Sept 18 at 14:12 » Tagged as: sqlite , lame , macbook
Apple's much hyped OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard is here. I didn't bother to update from Tiger to Leop...

jQuery TableSorter and XSL Transformation

2009 Sept 1 at 07:36 » Tagged as: node.js , ajax , javascript , jquery , xml
Jquery and it's plugins are so popular because they allow you to do in a couple of lines of code wha...

Wierd Firefox Errors

2009 Aug 20 at 12:23 » Tagged as: apache , weird
Every once in a while I get fed up with Firefox and switch to Konqueror, only to return a few days l...

Macbook Hard drive toasted

2009 Aug 19 at 15:20 » Tagged as: sri lanka , macbook , toast
On August 8th I left for a well deserved ten day vacation (working vacation mind you) so it was only...

json_encode/json_decode vs serialize/unserialize and fools vs idiots.

2009 Aug 1 at 01:01 » Tagged as: joomla , javascript , religion , wordpress
If you want to write good , fast, memory efficient code (pick any three) you need to start off with ...

Follower/Following Oddity.

2009 July 29 at 10:32 » Tagged as: gae , twitter , weird
At the time of I drafted this (July 16 9:30 pm) I had 557 followers on twitter. Since then many have...

Adobe Air on Linux

2009 July 20 at 12:31 » Tagged as: air , ria , twitter , lame
A struggled for a while to get Adobe Air installed on my fedora 11 box, so that I may run TweetDeck....

Barking Up the Wrong Tree.

2009 July 16 at 10:18 » Tagged as: jekyll , netbeans , ria
Thought of trying out Aptana for two reasons; the first being the fact that it has support for Adobe...

The F in JavaFX

2009 July 10 at 05:24 » Tagged as: ctc , javafx , jquery
Recently, Netbeans 6.7 was made released without support for JavaFX this is perhaps the first tacit ...
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