Monthly Archives: January 2007

I couldn’t sleep last night because of you…

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Kon

…and you should be worried if your name is the Sydney Entertainment Centre and you have a certain gig from a band named after a utitlity (thanks, Tass) playing tonight  OMG, I can’t fucking wait…………

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Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API … (or why I can’t hibernate my laptop with 2Gb of Ram)

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Kon

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095 I love stuff.  I love stuff that you can expand on.  Computers are expandable. I don’t love when you get side effects from that expansion (cmon, who does?) So I didn’t like when my laptop’s 2Gb upgrade resulted in … Continue reading →

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cp recursive preserve

Posted on January 22, 2007 by Kon

cp -pr /directory/from/where-i-want-to-dig-deep-and-preserve attributes /directory/to

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Just a spoon full of sugar….

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Kon

… or how to stay awake Walking through the city with a 4 pack of ‘V’ ‘energy drinks’, I had a few people comment on how awake I’d require to be. ‘You have to be pretty tired to get through … Continue reading →

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Yahoo’s Design & UI Pattern Library

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Kon

Lots of OS Ajax controls that Yahoo use in their own webapps. http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/index.php http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ http://yuiblog.com/

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Agile Java: Crafting Code with Test Driven Development

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Kon

http://www.langrsoft.com/agileJava/ This is one for the bookshelf. I saw it in Borders and when I do get time, I will get to read it. Along with Head First Design Patterns.

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Eclipse Tutorials and Resources

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Kon

http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/%7Eeclipse/ All the useful howto’s for the basic stuff for Eclipse 3.1 using Java and C++

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JVM’s for a Pocket PC

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Kon

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=14&TopicId=6435 I wonder if a different JVM will allow me to run the GMail app and the Google Maps without error? Cheap Mysaifu JVM $6: IBM WebSphere for Pocket PC. but very good This yielded some more links http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=jvm+pocket+pc&meta=

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I like Lego: An abstraction about Design

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Kon

In my experience, there is always one family that always gives the good Christmas and birthday presents, the ones that you remember into your adulthood. For me, that family was my mum’s brothers family, and apart from their enormous generosity … Continue reading →

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Google’s internal code review tool

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Kon

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/11/google-mondrian.html Recently at my work, someone asked, why do we keep lacking unit tests? Now there are many varied reasons for this and the discussion can go on forever, but I should say, that there is an understanding amongst us … Continue reading →

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