Jamie’s Weblog

btw doesn’t it seem natural that pop-up windows (especially those for viewing weblog comments) should support the ESC key to close them? Yet none of them do.

a grey day I’ve been offline for a while down in Inch, Co. Kerry. Quiet time, relaxation and some productive work. Netbeans again In other news, Netbeans have released release candidate 3 which is apparently the last version prior to the official 3.5 release. The releases are coming thick and fast so I’d expect a [...]

bookmarks For a long time I used Powermarks to manage my bookmark collection. Then I started putting my frequently used bookmarks on the links bar in the browser. When I moved from IE to Mozilla I ditched Powermarks altogether even though there were thousands of bookmarks and it had a lovely incremental search which made [...]

Irish Bloggers meet I’ll probably stroll around for this next Tuesday, although at around 10:15 I’ll have to weigh up the quality of conversation vs going home to watch 24. Judging by those talking about it, I’m sure the conversation will win.

wow Rusty is reporting that 4 sun-submitted JSRs were turned down. All four relate to J2ME apis and apparently the concern was the increase in the required memory footprint. This will be a pretty good test of sun’s commitment to the JCP process.

Matrix Reloaded Diego went to see Matrix Reloaded last thursday. I’m sacrificing the latest 24 episode on tuesday evening to see it. Carrie-Anne Moss looks at Keanu Reeves across a rusted metal table and says, softly: “Do you want to talk?” I laughed. It’s Keanu Reeves there, Carrie-Anne! He has the conversational abilities of a [...]

popfile PopFile gets the ‘SourceForge Project of the Month‘ award. Also, HEAnet are now mirroring the sourceforge downloads in Ireland so I’m getting nice fast updates for all the critical tools I use.

you can’t beat compact flash cards Seriously, I’ve tried. I sit on them, throw them, drop them and the 64Mb card I’m using now has been through a 40degree spin wash. They’re cheap and work in everything from my old Psion, old Kodak digicam, brand new Pentax, etc. Of course they’re a bit big for [...]

subversion update and other dev-related stuff Subversion has released version 0.23 for Win32 and TortoiseSVN has been tested against this version and updated to 0.11.2. Together they make a pretty good version control system although you’ll occasionally need to delve down the cmdline. Mostly this is to fix some problem with the repository or simply [...]

after debugging, now performance tuning My previous post “debugging ain’t simple” was actually supposed to sent to my private research log because it wasn’t written with the average joe in mind. It was really just a piece to remind me of the odd paths debugging can lead you down. Anyway, now it’s up I’ll leave [...]