If you’re installing phpundercontrol / cruisecontrol and getting compile errors on the web front end, which render the app fairly useless, make sure you are using Sun’s JVM. To do this on Ubuntu, follow the directions at Ubuntu Linux Install Sun Java Development Kit ( JDK ) and Java Runtime Environment ( JRE ) Q. […]
Mice got into food at a PETCO distibution center – might be worth some prevention if you think you might be affected. FDA seizes pet food at PETCO distribution center: Consumer Reports on Safety The distribution center in Joliet, Ill., provides pet food products and supplies to PETCO retail stores in 16 states: Alabama, Illinois,
I swtiched to Gmail at the end of last year, and am loving it. We did the same at work and we have a much better mail system for much cheaper. The filtering and labeling system is both powerful and easy to use, go learn some Tricks to improve your Gmail experience at Coen Jacobs
The feature I’ve been looking forward to the most, merge tracking, made it into the latest Subversion release. I’m not sure why, but branching/merging has been a conceptually scary thing for me for a long time. I’d always be afraid that somehow I’d mess up the merge and lose updates or somehow mangle my code
Note to self – renew US Passport and carry it everywhere I go. Also, stay out of Maricopa County. Lawman’s raids on immigrants spark fury in Phoenix | U.S. | Reuters Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff’s deputies into Hispanic communities where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a
I’m not sure what these people are doing to their dog, but it drove him to figure out how to leap a fence using a trampoline. Maybe he doesn’t want to be reunited with them? Harvey the trampolining dog found – Telegraph Miss Kidson said: “The fence isn’t all that high, but he couldn’t get
Or, learning to love process/order and prevent chaos TLC’s show Jon & Kate plus Eight has both of us hooked. We started watching after we learned we were expecting Nicholas, partially in a funny "At least we don’t have eight kids" way. But the show is entertaining, and has given us a couple of clues
I hope US Soccer can find, and cap, more players like Jorge Flores, although there’s a lot of debate about how many undiscovered, diamonds-in-the-rough like him are out there. Still, if MLS and US Soccer can give opportunites to players like him, we could add some much needed Latin-flair to the game here. OK, I’m
From The Price Tag for Immigration Enforcement, the crackdown on immigrants is only going to get more expensive next year. The Department of Homeland Security is asking for a 19% increase for “immigratin enforcement and border control for 2009”. Just this year, the budgets for Customs and Border Protection (CBP)and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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37signals lists 7 good reasons to avoid using Photoshop to create mockups for web sites or applications. I’ve found this practice utterly annoying for all the reasons that they mention but I don’t see it going away soon. Sadly most “web designers”, yes-that’s an intentional set of quotes, are much more fluent in creating Photoshop