For all of you who are eager to look at the new Intel-based Apple laptops (The McBook Happy Deal), I have good news. Someone just bought one and posted a lot of pictures showing the unboxing process (and a couple comparing the new MBP with the ‘old’ PowerBook). I’ll probably wait for Revision 2 to […]
In case you haven’t found out by now, Sun is having a contest where you can Play with J2EE 1.4 SDK and Win a Sony PSP. I think this is a very cool way to promote J2EE 1.4, too bad I don’t qualify because I’m not in one of the countries where the contest is […]
I just found out a very nifty extension for firefox that lets you create new posts for your favorite blog software (pebble included, thru the blogger or the metablog API). Performancing For Firefox (PFF) is the extension, and it looks very nice, and hopefully behaves nice too. (This post was created using PFF) Technorati Tags: […]
For those of you that like to keep a record of your personal finances, but don’t want to pay for an application like Quicken or Microsoft Money, there are a couple of solutions available in the OSS realm, most notably gnucash. But, if you want something that can run in various operating systems (win, mac, […]
I had a lot of interesting posts that I wanted to do, but something got in the way (besides lots of work, as usual). As you may be aware (from a previous post), my birthday was last saturday, and after a lot of consideration (i.e. getting the approval from my wife), I managed to buy […]
I started getting some spam comments on my blog a couple of weeks ago, at a steady increasing rate, which was getting very annoying. Fortunately, I found a very simple way to add captcha validation to the add comments form. Unfortunately, Glen’s solution involved patching the original pebble source and redeploying pebble. There is a […]
I love food. In general. I can enjoy a good Prime Rib as much as I can enjoy a BigMac (well, maybe not as much, but you get the idea). I try to eat new things whenever I have the chance. Since I was a kid, my parents taught me that there are so many […]
I just finished a 4-day training course entitled Optimizing Oracle SQL, imparted by Karen Morton from Hotsos. I must say I was really impressed with the course, as it gives you a very detailed account of how Oracle works, thus enabling you to analyze what’s going on with your queries and, if needed, rewrite them […]
My birthday is coming in less than one month, so I started thinking, what would be the ideal gift for geek guy like I? (There’s already a special present coming my way, but that will take a little more time). So, without further ado, here’s the list of what I would consider the perfect birthday […]
Some time ago, I dediced to ditch Windows because I got a weird experience with it (unfortunately, I haven’t imported my old postings yet). Basically, I left my laptop on during one night and when I looked at it the next day, the machine had cleanly rebooted after installing a patch from Microsoft. I didn’t […]
