Technologies

I’ve been trying to create simple animations recently using a Macromedia Flash trial license. I never tought it was so difficult to do simple things. I open the GUI on OS X and I’m overwhelmed by the number of panels at my disposal. I don’t even know where to start. I’m quickly realizing that Flash…

It had been a while since I wandered around the eclipse.org website. Wow! Nice & clean presentation, and loads of cool content to discover and play with! I was particularly impressed with the listing of Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications. The page provides screenshots, basic info and a link to download. There are so many…

I have been installing Eclipse on my Thinkpad (and other systems) ever since v2.0. I remember that back then, it was a little more involving in trying to get the right version of this or that pre-req, so you could run a specific plugin. Even downloading the base Eclipse required that we find a mirror…

So I finally bought the Treo 650. My Sony Clie T665C was getting unresponsive and frankly, with the recent applications, plain sluggish. I went from a Dragonball 66Mhz processor to a 312Mhz machine – and it shows. Apps fly, everything is instantaneous. The best part is really just having a single gadget that does everything…

Why is it that I can’t delete a folder in Windows XP, if I happen to have a DOS box open that’s in the directory I’m trying to delete… Would it be that much trouble to do like any well-behaved OS and simply kick me out of the directory, or smply close that terminal DOS…

I’m talking of course about discussion groups/threads. See, I’m in the process of rewriting major portions of my internal RFP tracking application, and so, I’ve had to hit the books big time. I re-read the Designer 6 Developer Handbook, but there are still many places where I wish it spent more time and some areas…

One feature I love in linux are those symbolic links. I just can’t get enough. I put’em all over the place to simply my life. Up until today, I’d been looking to do the same in Windows XP, without too much success. The fact is this is not new news to hardcore Windows dudes/dudettes. This…

Well, after months of drooling over the thing, I finally had a good reason to make the move; my Sony Clie T665C is hardly usable anymore, due to the wear and tear it received over the 3.5 years I’ve had it. The writing area is pretty much non-responsive, the digitizer keeps losing focus and running…

When you get a 0.1 upgrade, you typically expect a few bug and or security fixes. Not this time! Scuttle 0.7.1 finally offers a revamped css theme, as well as replacing the alphanumeric listing of tags with a nicely rendered tagcloud. It’s simplistic, but works well. This software finally lets me combine both private and…