Why free software shouldn’t depend on Richard M. Stallman’s advice
There’s been a long running rant about how using Mono is um, bad. But I just don’t get it. Now we have Richard M. Stallman coming out against Mono and C# with an argument that sounds kinda like “we shouldn’t use…
MAPI Support in Evolution is Far From Stable
For the past two weeks, I’ve been enjoying 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 on my HP 8530w. It’s very fast, and ext4 is helps considerably with boot times. Overall, I find this release to be pretty good. But, there’s one item that irks…
Eclipse 3.5RC3 Gives New Life to SWT on OS X
I’ve been a long time user of Eclipse, but also a critic of SWT – the UI toolkit that Eclipse uses. While Eclipse has always been a very productive tool on OS X, SWT has always lagged a bit behind…
Semantic Web research publications need to be more “webbish”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been taking a deep dive into the Semantic Web. As some will tell you, a number of scalability and performance issues with the Semantic Frameworks have not been fully addressed. While true to some…
Blu-ray at 1080p is better than your local theater
This weekend, we decided to take our daughter to her first movie in a real theater. This was the first time my and I had set foot into a movie theater in about three years (Yeah, we haven’t been out…
Eclipse on Mac Java 6 Reveals More SWT Shortcomings
Two years ago, I raised a few points about some of the short comings of SWT. Because of it’s native bindings, SWT makes the Java mantra of “write once, run anywhere” quite a bit more daunting. For the most part,…
WordPress Update Gone Bad
It’s always annoying to upgrade WordPress and then to find out 2 days later that all of your links now return a 404 error. All this depsite the fact that it was all working just fine after the update. It…
Better Questions Get Better Answers
Did you ever have that teacher or professor who always tried to tell you that: “there is no such thing as a stupid question?” This may have been true in school, but in a professional software engineering environment, I can…
Hibernate and and the “Found two representations of same collection” error
Last night I spent an extended work day trying to track down the source of a Hibernate exception that I have never encountered before. The application in question is a simple data loader application that reads in an XML file…
My Wife was SOOO Right!
I should know better by now, but the Mrs. has a decent track record of being right. Sometimes. Had I agreed the first time around, we’d have had the right color paint up on the walls this time and we’d…
