Subversion Change Log Report Depending on your perspective, you may call it paranoia or staying on top of the software development process, but, in my experience architects/senior developers need to track changes to the version control. If you are a team lead, you HAVE to know what your developers are putting in the version control....

Developers often compain about explicit Exceptions, especially in a strongly typed language like Java, and how much real estate handling those takes up in source code. I have seen approaches when people try to avoid java.lang.Exception and fall back to java.lang.RuntimeException for most cases. Is that a good thing to do? RuntimeException is a valid...

I was jailed into my computer for the entire last week (and then some more) so I decided to take a long walk this morning. I dropped my car off in Courthouse, for oil change and walked back home. It is a beautiful, sunny day. As I was crossing the K bridge I could not...

So, T-Mobile or Cingular? I was about to switch to Cingular and now they leave me wondering, again. I still think Cingular is MUCH more solid of a partner than T-Mobile. I guess, the real question for Apple, right now, is - which one of them will be able to roll-out wider, better 3G coverage?...

This is a list of third-party widgets that are way too useful/necessary (at least, for geeks) to miss out on them: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/pemdas.html The original Apple dashboard calc just plain sucks. This one is awesome. A truly wonderful system monitor tool LOVE IT Cruise Control Regexes PHP Reference Quick Javadoc access Timer should be the best...

Dude, I want a professor like this :)\ Courtesy of break.com

New cool Web 2.0 service - face recognition techniques in motion to identify which celebrity looks like you: http://www.myheritage.com/ Not bad :)

Due to the buzz, many companies claim/pretend to be “Web 2.0”. Are they? Tim O\‘Reilly describes the history of Web 2.0 and the main characteristics of a Web 2.0 service in his thoughtful article, summarizing the features of a Web 2.0 service in a nice list:\ “Core Competencies of Web 2.0 Companies In exploring the...

New iTunes was just realeased. I installed the update - it does look great and all but… I have two iPods (nano and a video one) and an iMac as well as a macBook (let’s forget Sony Vaio for a bit). So my question is - when the H… will it be possible to seamlessly...

OK, so I need this frequently enough to care (when I do direct JDBC for some data-mining, data-migration or any other mass-db operations) but not frequently enough to memorize (as I use Hibernate normally). Therefore, it seems like a good idea to post it here and be able to find it later, if I need...

Google Talk now has file transfer, FINALLY! Voice Mail and “View Past Chats” directly from the context menu are two more nice, new features.

Ok, granted, this makes sense :)

We went tubing yesterday with some friends. Of course, I was late to get my butt off home and ended up being an hour late to pick up Olga. She was pissed since other folks had left and supposedly were already at the destination . Yet, everything happens for a reason. To my luck, these guys managed...

Google launched open-source projects hosting site. It looks pretty good. I guess I will have to register something and try it out :)

I really do not like default Firefox theme. It look like a 5 years old kid\’s toy. Unfortunately, up until now alternatives were even worse. Most of them feel like lunatics were creating these terrible greeon-on-black-and-some-red nightmares. Fortunately, there is a solution now. Somebody had common sense enough to “steal” Safari skin. Oh, well -...