Yearly Archives for 2009
Netbeans, Aptana and Debugging AIR Apps
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?
My machine got really slowed down all of a sudden I suspected Netbeans and did a `ps -ef | grep java...
Twitter Search API inconsistency
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
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.
Upgrading Fedora is easy. It's the post upgrade clean up that kills you. As already mentioned, the m...
Fedora 12 (Rant)
It is said that thanks to Fedora's half yearly release cycle, you always get to use cutting edge tec...
Broadband speedtest
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).
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?
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
The other day, I upgraded from to OS X Snow Leopard and I wasn't entirely pleased with Apple. Howeve...
A Shivering Snow Leopard
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
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
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
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.
If you want to write good , fast, memory efficient code (pick any three) you need to start off with ...
Follower/Following Oddity.
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
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.
Thought of trying out Aptana for two reasons; the first being the fact that it has support for Adobe...
The F in JavaFX
Recently, Netbeans 6.7 was made released without support for JavaFX this is perhaps the first tacit ...