I recently started to browse the net with flock, the social webbrowser.
A lot of services like facebook, gmail, delicious bookmarks, googles picasa, feed-reader are
very well integrated. You should give it a try. Since its a son of Mozilla the firefox users will
be very familiar with it 
Tags: flockbrowser
Last friday was the day the iPhone 3G has been sold in Switzerland.
Swisscom was to organize a preshopping event, starting at midnight. People started queing already at 2pm and when I got there at 7.30 pm I was the 150th person in the queue.
Sadly the event was badly organized, except the snacks. Nobody took care of the queing. Yes, we are not in England, so people don’t know about queing.
The result was that people like me waited for 7 hours straight while other people just walked in and got one. They made me angry and at the same time they made me feel like a fool.
My last resort was the early-bird sale, starting at 6.30 am.
I got up at 5.50 and started the laundry machine. Yes, it was laundry day and I got just 3 hours of sleep, but laundry is important too.
I got on my bike and rode to the nearest Swisscom-Shop, about 300m and I was the 8th person in line. 5 minutes later there were already 20 wanna-be-customers like me in line. A quarter hour later the shop manager
announced that there were only 13 devices at this agency, so I finally was among the lucky ones!!
An hour later I was at home, waking the kids for the kindergarten and then, only then, I could initiate my brand new iPhone over iTunes, sponsored as a birthday present.
And my kids finally got a new puzzle box;)
I recently started to listen to podcast and the variety of podcasts is really big.
I discovered http://www.se-radio.net. This site produces
podcasts for software engineers. I really enjoy the possibility to learn while traveling
Today, I started listening to the parts of concurrency. Did you know there is a bug classification called Heisenberg-Bugs? A Heisenberg-Bug is Mehr…
a kids story:
I installed edubuntu on a very old laptop of mine for my son, 6 years old now. I figured it maybe time he has a computer available to him. The need came because he wanted to build his lego trains, which require a software from the lego-homepage to display a build-map for a specific train. I created an account for him with his firstname and the password with his second-name.
When the login-window popped up I told him to type his name in, which he did, father beeing proud . After
that a prompt came for the password. I explained my son that he has to ‘enter his secondname’
And my son bent forward to the screen and said loud and clear ‘leon’ and waited, full of expectations, to be logged in!
ROFL, but he may actually be able to do that in his lifetime…..
An annoyance in IntelliJ IDEA was that the command ‘View Javadoc in external Browser’ did not work
per default on a mac. On a mac with it’s own java sources the api-doc are located inside a jar and therefore
not able to browse through a normal webbrowser. (If you know a browser which can handle a jar://xxx address let me now in a comment)
IntelliJ does not open or extract those files per default so I did by hand with:
cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home
jar xf docs.jar // this will extract the contents of the jar
jar xf appledocs.jar // dito
No we need to point IntelliJ to the extracted files. Open your Preferences -> Project Preferences.
Click on the desired JDK and then click on the tab ‘javadocs’. Remove the old entries for the jar and enter
the extracted path
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/docs/api
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/appledocs/api
Not it works. To test it, move the cursor to a class,member whatever and press <Shift>+<F1>. The appropriate javadoc should open in your default browser.
This is not a bug fix, just a bad default configuration. I’d like to see this fixed in the next release…
A song about Agile Software Development by Sting?
Really really good, You ought to see that:
