I recently attended a photography workshop by Darwin Wiggett and although I’ve been shooting pictures for a while it still turns out that I knew nothing (now I only know next to nothing) about photography.
If you want to gain an insight into how to take better pictures I highly recommend Darwins seminars, check out his web site for seminar dates.
For all the times I was looking through a big project trying to find my TODO taks I’ve created an Eclipse plugin which helps track TODO tasks in any large Eclipse projects. Read the rest of this entry »
They say that as one gets older it becomes harder to learn new tricks and try new things. Accordingly I count myself lucky to be able to try new things even at my advanced age of 40 (and we’re not talking dog years here). Read the rest of this entry »
Introduction
A Trie (pronounce “try”) is a tree-based data structure in order to support fast pattern matching. The “trie” comes from the word “retrieval”.
This structure is particularly useful for any application requiring prefix based (read “starts with”) pattern matching.A good example is any kind of application where we let the user type and quickly come up with a list of words starting with what the user typed in. Read the rest of this entry »
I just bought myself a new budget server and was having no end of grief trying to straighten out the integrated video on the el-cheapo-grande motherboard (Asus K8S-MX).
After hours of poking, prodding, loading and unloading and copious amounts of cussing I finally called upon a friend of mine who knows a lot more about computers that I ever will.
He gave me a few pointers and within fifteen minutes I had all my issues resolved.
If you’re having PC trouble save yourself the time and aggravation and look Tom up at Save the PC.
This is a true story and not a cheap promotional effort.
Not saying this is scientific in any way, but I wanted to know how Java on a Mac Mini would perform against Java on my Dell Laptop. I’m considering a Mac Mini as a desktop development box and wanted to know. Read the rest of this entry »
The Glory
So when I got my Dell laptop a year ago with a Dell TrueMobile 1300 card built in I was so excited it’s not even funny (nothing funny came with “so excited”). With 802.11b and g standards supported I was expecting to connect at 54mbps without wires throughout the house. Read the rest of this entry »
This is particularly handy if you want to have multiple schemas of a big application inside the same database (for testing i.e. one schema for development and another for testing) but you’d also like the tables and indexes to reside in their own tablespaces. Read the rest of this entry »
An SSL certificate is required to secure/encrypt the communications between a client browser and an OC4J J2EE sesrver. The SSL certificate is used for encryption and identification of your web site. Read the rest of this entry »