2006 September - Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

Archive for September, 2006

No Fluff Just Stuff - Day One

Sep 15, 2006 in General Discussions, Java

The day started with getting up at 4:00am, sending a few work emails, and getting into a van with 7 or 8 of my closest colleagues (I mean that in the literal sense… that van was small).
NFJS is being held in Redmond again this year so that meant catching the ferry from Victora -> Vancouver [...]

Never buy a Creative Zen Micro

Sep 12, 2006 in General Discussions

See Creative Zen Micro Headphone Jack Fix
I’ve had my zen micro for a little under 2 years and have been plagued by rather annoying headphone jack problems every 6 or 7 months. I say every 6 months because the first time I managed to have Creative repair it free of charge, but the second [...]

Vacation … it does a developer good!

Sep 9, 2006 in General Discussions

This past week was my first week back at work after spending sometime travelling on the coast of Oregon. I didn’t spend a particularly long time down there, but in 8 days I managed to find a bit of peace and relaxation. I took the laptop but didn’t bother even attempting to find [...]

Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...
Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...
Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...
An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...
Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...