There’s more than one way to skin a cat, or so they say. Similarly, perhaps, there are many ways to successfully lead a development team, small or large. Having done the former in various capacities I’ve learnt a lot about people, myself included, and there’s one conclusion I can’t ignore: it’s a fickle business. Books [...]
Some initial thoughts halfway through my most anticipated sequel this year…
The story’s poor. What am I doing really? You find this guy, now this guy, oh here’s something different: find this place! Whilst you’re doing that random people will pop up like something out of Time Crisis 2 and try and kill you. Oh and [...]
Quick update regarding Ant TODO: there’s now a JAR available for download, so you can get it running even quicker!
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December 31, 2009 – 15:58
I often felt the need to scratch an itch when it comes to source code and a little fragment called //TODO. It’s scattered everywhere; I’m sure you’ve seen it. Yet no matter what codebase you’re looking at, there’s never any real exposure to them.
I therefore decided to implement an Ant Task for parsing TODOs in [...]
December 15, 2009 – 22:55
If you want to use the Sky Songs download client in Linux (say Ubuntu or Debian), just paste the following into a file called skysongs in $HOME/bin and then chmod a+x it:
cd $SKY_SONGS_DIR; /usr/bin/java -cp . -jar downloader.jar $*
Note, $SKY_SONGS_DIR should be changed to your installation directory. If you used wine to install Sky Songs, [...]
November 29, 2009 – 12:23
The problem with ignorance is not only the laziness of the culprits, but the hatred expressed by those who are better informed.
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Quick post documenting the much-sought-after structure of the Python API’s Annotation name/value pairing. If you want to annotate a blip’s content, you’ll need to utilise the values below:
conv/title
lang = en
style/fontWeight = bold
style/fontStyle = italic
style/textDecoration = underline
style/textDecoration = line-through
style/fontSize = 2em
style/color =r gb(229, 51, 51)
style/backgroundColor = rgb(51, 127, [...]
