Road crews painted dots 80 feet apart and posted signs telling drivers to stay at least two dots — 160 feet — from the vehicle ahead, based on the traffic safety principle of being at least two seconds behind another vehicle when going 60 mph. Long backups developed Saturday, the […]
IntelliJ IDEA provides a tool that helps you with migrating packages and classes. In case of switching between API’s you will also need to make a couple of tricks such as creation of temporary files and some refactoring. Here is the step-by-step instruction: . . . http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/08/switching-between-api/
This is a great tip for […]
Today the scripts running on Second Life are a bit slow, so they are looking at Mono and the CLI as a way of providing more speed to their users and hopefully allow developers to write in other languages other than their Linden Labs Scripting Language. They have a compiler […]
I’m still new to Java and so, I still am reading about the nitty-gritty, so when I ran into a situation with some code where we were running out of PermGen space I had to do some reading. In the JVM, PermGen holds the metadata about classes that have been loaded/created. This information […]
… linguists Sali Tagliamonte and Derek Denis studied over 70 Toronto teenagers and compared their use of language both in speech and while using instant messaging. They will present their research at the Linguistics Society of Canada and the United States Annual Meeting on August 2. The study finds that […]
Wanted to learn Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) but didn’t know where to start? Go read this book online for free and start learning now. Below is a stolen chunk of the book’s intro chapter.
The .NET languages are growing more pervasive by each passing day. We, therefore decided to explore the world […]
Google: I owe you in a very big way. There are six billion people in the world, approximately five zillion web pages cataloged in your little magnetic platters, and you somehow managed against the odds to deliver a highly intelligent (major: aviation science / minor: journalism/creative writing), dynamic, gorgeous human being to my […]
jwz posted a link to A Primeval Tide of Toxins, an article about the affect of climate changes and increased pollution on the worlds oceans. Basically the oceans are moving towards once again being ruled by fireweed, jellyfish, and other primordeal creatures. This quote from the article sums it up:
“We’re pushing […]
On the Yahoo Fitnesse list Lars Norden asked, “how to stop or abort test is condition fails.” If you can use FitLibrary’s DoFixture in flow mode you can do this easily using the special action abandon storytest. This only works if you are “in flow”:
To be in “flow”, the […]