Since the rise of Google a whole cast of people emerged who do not get a simple fact: Wisdom of the universe is not contained simply in top 10 results of Google searches. It is annoying. Folks, you can not just google some crap and think you know everything about anything. Most of the time,...

JetBrains announced a new product for Java developers - TeamCity. According to the announcement, it is an intelligent team environment, extending upon the intelligent IDE from the same vendor (IntelliJ IDEA of course). Feature set looks really promising and knowing JetBrains\’ implementation excellence, expectationa are real high. Read more at: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

This happened to me today and I thought it was funny enough to share. So, I am doing a little research on cheap IP Telephony solutions. I know Vonage because they have so much advertising - it just sunk in my mind. But what I also know from the word-of-mouth, anecdotal evidence is that their...

Windows Vista Beta 2 Screenshot (Click to enlarge): Pros: Huge progress in user-interface design compared to Windows XP. More user friendly - I could not help a chuckle to find C:\\Users folder, but it\’s still good. Much richer functionality. Cons: I installed 64 bit version Vista (from my MSND subscription) on my AMD64 dual-core HP m7334n....

Webby awards is considered “the Oscars of the Web”. Now, not that I have much (or any) respect for Oscars but it still makes me sad to look at the latest Webby Awards: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=10 I mean - come on, guys. The whole world just can\‘t stop talking about Web 2.0 aesthetics of simplicity and most...

Dont miss them http://www.apple.com/getamac

This has been going on for a long time, now, and is becoming really worrying. There is a whole bunch of people, in the IT industry, whose sole goal is to be “recognized” as a “thought-leader”. When I think about a thought-leader, the first face that comes to my mind is Einstein, even if with...

Google Video Player has come to OS X, too. Downlowd it from here

Following are detailed instructions for installing Weblogic 9.1 on OS X Panther. Download AIX version of Weblogic 9.1 (AIX as that’s the generic version of WebLogic, in fact). You can download it from:http://commerce.bea.com/showproduct.jsp?family=WLS&major;=9.1&minor;=0 Run the installation with the following command: java -Dos.name=unix -jar server910_generic.jar it’s crucial to indicate os.name parameter. Otherwise, installer will complain about...

Sometimes we do not know the size of the data or information that will be displayed on a page, or worse - we know it will be too large. Examples of such cases are: large data tables or code listing. Having page strech is not the best thing to happen obviously. Using IFrames is even worse....

Very nice commercial from EDS: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187

As you know, in CSS box  model, you can indicate all 4 arguments together. e.g. margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; But then, it is not easy to remember which argument stands for which side. Which one is top or right or left? They go around the clock but then - where does it start? I...

I installed Windows XP SP2 on my brand-new MacBook yesterday. The installation was a breeze (except it took REALLY LONG, for some reason) and after installing Windows has superb performance. Quite honestly I have never had such fast Windows before (even though one of my desktop computers is Athlon X2). Very impressive. The only downsides...

Here it is: http://de.fishki.net/pics9/tyts.swf. Put your headphones on, if you are in the office and enjoy :) If somebody knows the name of the song and can comment here - it will be greatly appreciated. cheers.

Do you have a nice, new computer with large L2 cache? Probably, you payed extra to get 2MB L2 instead of a lesser alternative. Well, here is the news - Windows is not using all that extra goods of your CPU. By default Windows only uses 256KB of your second-level (L2) cache. Ouch! Here is...