It’s pretty simple to add a menu launcher link for anything in Ubuntu. Just make a file with a “.desktop” extension and then edit the file so that it has the pathing for the image file (48 px seems to be the size to choose) and the executable. Here’s my intellij.desktop file contents: #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open […]
OK so I decided to set my Linux OS experiment in motion. I researched notebooks and settled on an HP Pavilion and it will have Unix installed as the primary OS. I’m a developer. And I do not know anyone who uses Linux as their workstation OS. But I’m going to try it. […]
For along time I’ve been a proponent of Windows, mostly because it has a nice file system navigator and is highly and easily configurable. For instance, putting several versions of Java, or even a new version of a JDK on a Windows machine is quite simple compared to the major hoops you have to jump […]
It’s kind of hard to believe these days that poor user experience that can hinder your website would be developed and deployed. But it happens — all the time. Its just a testament to how difficult UX is to understand. Recently I was on an artificial sweetener website. I could not, for the life of […]
So on Labor Day I decided to sit back, relax and try out some new fat install wiki software. I like to use Zim but after messing around with Microsoft One Note which is stupendious I am really dying for something that would let me paste in images without a lot of work. I looked […]
Having been in a lot of modern shops and talking/interviewing some olde skool java developers I realized there are some tools that are advantageous to being a modern developer and being more productive. Here they are: 1. Own your OWN notebook development computer You need to own your own because it allows you to spike […]
OK that title is a not serious. At my current gig we need servers; and I’ve been waiting for the bosses to make the deals to get some real server services. It’s finally happening, but, its real slow — the handshakes, board room stuff all that. I didn’t want to strap myself to a kluge […]
So what do you do after paid hours? Let me guess. You code up web sites in Fortran on Rails because that’s the best language in the world; you spend hours and hours at night figuring out the next cool thing for EJB 4 even though you’ve never done EJB before, or maybe you read […]
I was watching some of my buddies on a project and they have been living in the bowels of hell. They are on an Iterative Death March project. A Death March Project classically defined is a nightmarish high risk, huge overtime/grueling work, looming deadline project. Oh, the horror. You can read about it in wikipedia […]
I have an old 2nd-gen MacBook with a core 2 duo processor and ram maxed at 4 gb (although, due to the bus in this, only 3.3 are used). Running Snow Leopard. It had a 320 gb 5400 rpm drive so I thought I squeeze some life out of it before I buy a new […]