devdaily.com: updatesUpdates to the devdaily.com blogFree Public WiFi- (Found July 8, 2008 ) While traveling the other day I was looking for some free wireless internet access, and as I was looking in the wirelessAirPort menu on my MacBook Pro I noticed a mysterious entry under the "Devices" portion of the menu labeled "Free Public WiFi". After digging around, it appears that this is a viral Windows feature (more ...)http://devdaily.com/blog/post/page-1/free-public-wifi/ Honor your dreams- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In 1993 I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and started working as a consultant for a company I now refer to as The Evil Empire. The company didn't seem evil when I first started; in fact they were 26 of the nicest people I knew. Right away they made promises of considering me as a partner, and after my first year I was named Employee of the Year. Around 18-24 months into my employment I began to sense that the promise of being a partner was a ruse. I wasn't really being considered as a partner,..http://devdaily.com/blog/post/personal/honor-your-dreams/ AppleTV reviewthoughts- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I'm generally an AppleMac fan, but I don't get the idea of the AppleTV. I rent maybe 10 movies per year on DVD, and Steve Jobs has stated that this is the market the AppleTV looks to replace. Let's take a quick look at this. First, the hardware: I already have a television, a DVD player, a DVR box, and soon, a Playstation 3 that will play Blu-ray videos. Big problem here: the AppleTV doesn't let me get rid of any of those existing boxes, and in fact I have to add another box to the mix. Sorry,.http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/page-1/appletv-review-2008/ What do you think about- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Here's a simple test of my own devising: Take your hands off the keyboard, put them in your lap, look up from the screen and find a blank place on the wall in front of you, and just stare out into the distance. Don't do anything else right now, just do that for 15-30 seconds, and then come back here. (More ...)http://devdaily.com/blog/post/personal/what-do-you-think-about/ Faith Hill music dream- (Found July 8, 2008 ) For the third time in my life (that I can recall), I had a dream featuring a song that I've never heard before. In a way this one was even more bizarre than the others, as it began with me just strumming some strings on a guitar. When I found a tune I liked a little bit Faith Hill magically appears and (more ...)http://devdaily.com/blog/post/personal/faith-hill-music-dream/ Life is short, work with RubyRails- (Found July 8, 2008 ) For a little while yesterday I sat at a book store and flipped through several books on Ruby and Rails. I'm not the most passionate Ruby developer in the world, but I really do like the language, and prefer it at every opportunity. Given this, my brain managed to quickly combine (a) earlier thoughts of how short life is (many of my uncles died in their 40s), with (b) wow, if I was a really passionate RubyRails developer I'd sure hate working with other languages, which led to (c) how unhappy...http://devdaily.com/blog/post/personal/life-is-short-ruby-rails-career/ Continuous integration- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Continuous integration is a key to a quality build process for any multi-developer software development project. I can't say it much better than the way Martin Fowler describes it, so I'll just include a portion of his summary here (more ...)http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/best-practices/software-development-continuous-integrati... Stomach virus cures arthritis pain, hunger- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Here's a crazy health-related story: Most days my finger joints hurt from arthritis, and my shins hurt because I've had two fasciotemy surgeries after suffering from compartment syndrome due to too much running (technically too much running, too fast, while also changing my running surface from gravel to pavement). The crazy part of the story is this: I recently had a bout with a stomach virus, and after not eating anything but crackers for four days, my fingers and shins no longer hurt....http://devdaily.com/blog/post/personal/stomach-virus-cures-arthritis-pain-hunger/ A sample Cobertura ant build script- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I still haven't gotten around to writing a Cobertura code-coverage tutorial, but in lieu of that, I thought I'd include an ant build script here that does a lot of powerful things, including a task that generates Cobertura code-coverage reports. More ...http://devdaily.com/blog/post/java/sample-cobertura-ant-build-script/ How to create an executable jar file by dynamically referencing the jar files you depend on- (Found July 8, 2008 ) A couple of days ago I had a situation come up where I wanted to distribute a Java application that I wrote as a jar file. The problem I ran into is that my jar file depended on quite a few other open source projects that were also distributed as jar files, and I wanted a good way to build my application and also distribute it to my users. I've seen people provide their applications as batch files or shell scripts to get around this problem, but I knew there must be another way where I could...http://devdaily.com/java/edu/pj/create-executable-jar-file-reference-dependencies/ |