If you are as picky with keyboards as I am, then there is something you may like and the name of it is Logitech diNovo Media Keyboard. Now, it\’s not just the awesomely cool numeric pad (with termomether, clock and Smart Calculator mode) or the innovative design or the insanely cool look. You see, I...

Now, I am not a designer, not even a web designer but I am a web developer. Therefore, I can not ignore the CSS revolution. It is, definitely, no breaking news that designing with HTML tables and 1 pixel “clear” gifs is a thing of far past. Alas, too many websites still hold to bad...

I have purchased Ajax In Action from Manning a while ago and tried to read it, several times. In vain. And not due to the lack of interest, I must say. A brief look was very disappointing and I could not make  myself to spend precious time on it. Anyway, I finally managed to get to...

Useful code snippet for your start.sh scripts: for f in `ls $BASE_DIR/lib/*.jar`doCLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$fdoneexport $CLASSPATH

…is when somebody does something so f..in mean, you want to cut his (or her) throat right there, right then but instead you smile warmly and say through your teeth “thank you. I really appreciate you doing this” ………… and they actually believe it!!! There is no limit to human stupidity, indeed.

Everybody knows about 192.168.* but it is not the only one. Actually, there is an RFC: #1918 that controls this, and the winning “combinations” are:      10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)      172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)      192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) \

Sometimes you really want to track which other methods are calling/invoking a particular method, at runtime. There is a quick and dirty way of doing it that I find pretty nifty and decided to share, in case you are not already familiar with it. In this method, you can track the caller by analyzing the...

I ran into this problem more than enough times, during the last year and I am tired remembering the solution, each and every time. So, I am going to post it here, for my own sake and for the sake of those who may find it here and bless me for being so kind (heh)....

Please, take a look at this and then this. How many similiarities were you able to find? It\’s such a shame! Especially, coming from a prominent Jakarta project. At least, they could have written a decent tutorial, instead of this abracadabra bullshit. So much for the “general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory “ /me *SIGHS*

There are several books about Subversion, some small some huge. Yet, none of them gives a 5 minute get-going guide. Most of the developers are seasoned CVS users, so we do not really need a tirade about version control - just get us going! And (I can hardly stress this enough) we\‘d really like Subversion to authenticate...

If you think about it, it is pretty pathetic that as people get increasingly estranged to each-other, in the real life, they show more interest in Social Web (or whatever other fancy name the “celebrity” jerk bloggers come up with to satisfy their unhealthy egos.) Logical, yet very pathetic and sad.

iTunes Store launched TV Shows service several months ago. Initially it was just four shows but today the number drastically increased. It seems like it is becoming real thing, which is very exciting. TV has to go online. It’s a shame how much behind TV industry is compared to everything else.

Have you seen the Dirty Little Secret video from The All-American Rejects band? I can\‘t help thinking that it may well be greatly inspired by the Ning Confess

Sun features an interview with Victoria Livschitz about the next-generation language: Metaphors. To tell you the truth, IMHO, it is not going to make it. I am not an expert of architecting new programming languages, but it looks to me as just another artificially born, intellectually struggled, idea. It does not feel natural. Maybe it\’s just me. Anyway,...

Surprisingly enough apache.org is dead. I would not be surprised, in the least, if it was Sourceforge, because that dude is dead more often than alive, but this is the first time I witnessed the same with Apache, and it sucks. I am sitting here waiting for the site to come up and thinking how...