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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
I spent a considerable amount of time this weekend hacking away at my Google Wave robot, Wave Toolkit. It’s a lot of fun and I’ve managed to write something that allows for quick implementation of ‘commands’ from initial idea to ‘live’.
One of the frustrating things about developing Google Wave extensions is the poor documentation. It [...]
Update: You might find my latest posts on Google Wave helpful.
So I managed to join the select elite bandwagon that is the Google Wave preview, which entitled me to early access to Google’s new masterpiece and 8 invites to bribe friends with (although I only have a few, so the whole eight might not stretch [...]
