I have an iPod Mini and my car only has a CD-Player, no mp3 player. Also, a lot of my music is in AAC format, nowdays, as I became a regular on the iTunes music store. So, the obvious choice was to hook-up my iPod Mini to my car stereo. Since I do not have...

I\‘ve been wondering which handheld to get, for a couple of months, now. Windows-based crap is out of question, of course. I got rid of the Redmond parasites on desktop, why would I want it in my pocket? Unfortunately, Apple does not produce handhelds, any more. Neither do they show any sign to do so.\r...

As much as I love everything Apple (yes, it is an addiction and a lethal one) I can not stop “admiring” the level of stupidity of sales people at the Apple Stores. Well, as usual - most of them, of course - it is always unfair to trash people as a whole group, even if...

Jean-Francois Arcand, a Tomcat 5 developer has recently been interviewed by TheServerSide.. It is very interesting, overall, but there were several things that seemed strange to me.\r \r I have not used “embedded” feature of Tomcat but the impression, from the interview, is that this just means there is an interface which allows you to...

I do not know any developers that have created more than a couple web applications in Java/J2EE and has not gotten frustrated by JSP. JSP sucks - on all fronts! JSP is created to decouple presentation from the program code but nobody except a programmer can handle JSP!!! It is presentation for … programmers. Who...

 Andrew has been working on PodCasting (audio RSS feeds for iPod) for a while now. He blogs that John Edwards has done a podcast. Yes, this is the same Edwards that was running for vice-presidency under Kerry, just several months back. This is MAJOR! Both for the Internet community+iPod community and the US/World politics. WOW!...

Martin Fowler blogged about ErraticTestFail. I can not say the name is very descriptive :) but the problem is interesting. Such buggy tests arise, mostly, from static mocks or stubs shared by several test methods or cases. Now, ideally, your tests should be independent but there is a performance tradeoff - sometimes initalization takes too...

Sony Mathew has described the best my concern with the Dependency Injection (e.g. in Spring Framework). I like it so much, that I think it is well worth quoting here: “… externalizing an entire object graph seems over ambitious and counter productive. This type of glue work is considered core functionality and may be subject...

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Whoa! Here goes the prize for the dumbest shit of the year! I never liked Adidas, anyway, but they have really, really outperformed theirselves… but, not the way they think. Listen, idiot, I DO NOT WANT MY SHOE TO HAVE A CPU, get it? As a side comment: their promo-site SUCKS. It is one of...

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“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” - John Lennon

The Redmond company (a.k.a M$) has begun a new campaign, represented by this image banner on their website.\r \r The truth is, in reality, you should read that banner, in a slightly changed manner:\r \r

It seems that the formula of the cannabis has been figured out:\r R:=(1+sin(t))(1+.9cos(8t))(1+.1cos(24t))\r \r Graphic of the function in polar coordinates:\r \r \r \

Do not allow developers to sneak-in untested code:\r http://www.cenqua.com/clover/