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… dying of boredom… work has been soooooooo painful lately… All I want to do is develop some ‘NEW’ code, but wait.. we need to first do estimates, oh but those aren’t until next week as the product mangers aren’t available. Oh, and no one can provide mock ups because that can’t possible happen until [...]

You can control the debug output that wine generates by manipulating the WINEDEUG environment variable. A detailed description of available options can be found here Recently I encountered a scenario where running ruby watir tests through wine continually produced the following output: err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows BeginDeferWindowPos returned NULL err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows DeferWindowPos returned NULL err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows DeferWindowPos returned NULL err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows [...]

No, I’m not talking about the geese flying South… but close!.. Ever worked in a development shop that never seems to find a destination?… I have.. Yes change does occur, and should, as new technologies present themselves and we have opporunity to benefit from increased efficiency and productivity but at what cost? We recently just [...]

Want to encrypt your IM traffic to ensure those nasty network folks aren’t monitoring your conversations.. give this plugin for GAIM a try… once installed, simply enable it through the gaim plugins menu.  http://dag.wieers.com/packages/gaim-encryption/gaim-encryption-2.38-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm Tweet This Post

Why has the notion of specialization become such a taboo topic in the development world?…. I find it funny how it seems all the rave nowadays to promote jack of all trades type of workers, half the time simply because if everyone says specialization in dev shop is bad, then it must be. The true [...]

A co-worker recently introduced me to a nifty little application that you can run to help remind you to look away from the computer / strech periodically to eliminate chances of repetitive strain injury. Check it out at WorkRave.org for more details. Tweet This Post