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MiddleClickClose: New Home!
For those of you who have been pining for a working 64-bit version of MiddleClickClose, your patience is about to be rewarded. A fellow called Tom has taken the MCC code, gotten it working with 64-bit Safari and has moved … Continue reading
2 Solutions To Project Euler Problem #1
In an effort to not go a whole month without blogging, and in the interest of posting some code samples, I give you two solutions to Project Euler: Problem #1. If you’ve never heard of it, Project Euler (pronounced “oiler” … Continue reading
iPhone Interface For My Blog
09/28/2009 Update: Now added a link to the view from Android. Last week I learned about WPTouch, which is a plugin for WordPress that reformats the theme for the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices. It was an easy install, … Continue reading
I’m Liking Scala’s XML Literals
How many times have you written a class that you needed to save and restore to/from XML? How did you do it? There are libraries that will do this for you, but I don’t know if any of them have … Continue reading
Bogus Search Results From Sys-Con
Updated! Be sure to scroll down for the latest! I’m writing a blog post dealing with Scala’s XML literal syntax and how to use it for object de/serialization and so I wanted to get a list of existing Java XML … Continue reading
Scala’s Nice Regex Class
I’m a big fan of regular expressions, because they let you parse text in very concise, and sometimes complicated, ways. Though I agree with jwz about regular expressions in lots of cases, I still use them frequently. Perl was the … Continue reading
Announcing JUnitLaunchFixer Eclipse Plugin
My friend Chris and I both work for the same company. Our product has around 900 JUnit tests, and for some of them, the default heap size that Eclipse runs JUnit tests with has become too small. You can change … Continue reading
MiddleClickClose Will Work With Snow Leopard But…
12/02/2009 Update: MiddleClickClose has been updated for 64-bit Safari. More info here. I have upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard, and as soon as I loaded Safari, I could see that MiddleClickClose was no longer working. I had already heard … Continue reading
1 eeePC, 2 SDDs, 1 Pendrive, Ubuntu, Win7 and dd – Hoo-wee!
If you’ve ever been here before, you know that I bought an Asus eeePC 900a a few months ago. After buying it, I pulled out the 1G RAM and 4G SDD and replace them with 2G RAM and a 32G … Continue reading
The iPhone 3GS GPS Is Crazy Good
I have a Garmin eTrex Venture hand-held GPS that I bought about five years ago. I used it for years mounted to my bicycle handlebars for when I would go trail riding to inject a bit of geekery into my … Continue reading
MiddleClickClose Updated For Future Safari Versions
08/31/2009 Update: For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. Yesterday Apple release Safari 4.0.3 which, of course, broke MiddleClickClose. Again. The problem lies in the file Info.plist that is part of the plugin. From what I read about SIMBL, good practices … Continue reading
Scala Limerick
On the Java Posse mailing list, there’s a message thread consisting of limericks about Scala or other languages. While I don’t claim to be a poet, here’s my submission There once was a lang called Scala That was sweeter than … Continue reading
MiddleClickClose for Safari 4.0.1
A day or so ago Apple released Safari 4.0.1 and bumped the version number in the process. Safari 4.0 was 5530.17, while Safari 4.0.1 is 5530.18. After installing the update, MiddleClickClose was still loading, even with the minor version mismatch. … Continue reading
Apple Doesn’t Seem To Want My Money
Yesterday, like six billion other people, I tried to pre-order a new iPhone 3GS from the Apple Store online. After trying multiple times getting multiple timeouts, I was finally given a message stating that they could not complete my request … Continue reading
Scala Gets Operator Overloading Right
02/20/2010 Update: I took this blog post and turned it into a presentation to the Atlanta Scala User Group, which I gave in January 2010. The slides from that presentation are here. 05/31/2009 Update: As Mads Andersen pointed out, in … Continue reading
Skype For iPhone Is Full Of WIN!
We’re on vacation in Colonial Williamsburg, and the AT&T signal in and around our hotel sucks! This seems to be a common theme for me. At home, I have next to no AT&T signal. I swear, if it weren’t for … Continue reading
Help Me With iPhone Dev Graphics Question, Please
Usually when I learn a new programming language or framework, I am plagued by the fact that I can’t think of anything to build with it, or I can only think of things that are too difficult. With iPhone development, … Continue reading
ExportToArchive *Does* Work With iPhoto ’09
I just installed the iLife ’09 suite, which includes version 8.0 of iPhoto. While I haven’t had time to try out any of the new features, I did check to see if my ExportToArchive plugin still worked. I’m happy to … Continue reading
Huzzah! MiddleClickClose Working In Safari 4!
08/31/2009 Update: For Snow Leopard compatibility, see here. 08/13/2009 Update: It should now work with all future versions of Safari without having to update it again. Read about the change here. 06/09/2009 Update: Apple released the production version of Safari … Continue reading
No MiddleClickClose for Safari 4
06/09/2009 Update: I thought I’d updated all the pages on my blog about MiddleClickClose, but I missed this one. It now works with Safari 4. Read about it here. At least, not yet. I installed the Safari 4 beta this … Continue reading
