I can finally sleep at night now that I have a command-line solution for Google Talk.
What’s needed (for a poor windows user):
Mcabber, a jabber client from http://mcabber.com
Cygwin, http://cygwin.com
Ssh package for cygwin, if you need to install mcabber elsewhere and then connect to it remotely.
If cygwin and ssh are new to you, read this to get [...]
So you might be sitting around asking yourself,
“Do I really need a web browser or collection of clunky travel dictionaries to translate to and from different languages of the world? Isn’t there a command line tool that can do the same thing and make my life easier, while making me even more awesome at [...]
I haven’t posted in about 8 years or something like that. Besides being lazy and uninspired, I really haven’t learned anything new or exciting in the past 2 years. I have nothing to share that would be beneficial to all of you.
However, some of you may benefit from what I have learned NOT [...]
Most of us working in corporates, use Oracle mostly. It probably has a uptime of 99%. But sometimes, it does go down and when it does, it’s frustrating for the developer, especially when you’re in the middle of something.
We can’t have a local database instance running and having a hsqldb or mysql database would [...]
I hate stupid users.
*RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIING*
Me: “Hello”
SU: “Why is the application going so incredibly slow?”
Me: “Because I coded it so that if it finds your user ID it will run slower.”
SU: “I’m reporting you to HR!”
Me: “OK, but you’ll be wasting your time.”
SU: “And why is that?!”
Me: “Because I told everyone in HR that you are a [...]
If you are a software developer and haven’t realized by now that a BS in Computer Science should be at least 50% BA, then you must be living the good life and I envy you. Though users love to believe that software development is a perfect science that is as predictable as manufacturing wing [...]
Although, most UI Javascript frameworks say that their script “works” in all browsers, it’s quite the opposite. As a developer, you might wanna save your ass till a last moment surprise. And you would want to test your web application or website on all web browsers, atleast for a sanity test. Typically this involves IE [...]
LIB is LIHB, not LIBE!
Do you put your executables in the BINE directory or program logs in the VAIR directory?!!!
I rest my case.
Post examples of Noobness in this thread.
Example 1: Not understand how to use NOT logic (aka, the ‘!’)
if ((expDate!=null && expDate.isPast(null)) ||
(effDate!=null && effDate.isFuture(null)) ||
id.getRank() == null) {
//Do Nothing
}
else
return id;
Example 2: Hard-coding Array indices
if(person[i][3].equals(“Sam”) && person[i][1].equals(“17″))
name = person[i][3] + ” ” + person[i][4] + ” ” person[i][5];
This is just so much more [...]
Ever want to be cool and check your web-mail at work without having to go to the stupid bulky web client to do it? There are several ways around this. Some providers, like gmail provide pop3 access. However, many do not, and even if they do, most corporate firewalls block you from [...]