When you guys want to send each other a long URL, make it tiny! Go to http://tinyurl.com/ and enter the long URL there and *POP*, out comes the tiny url that you can use instead! So, http://on-my-desk.blogspot.com/2007/02/jennifer-shiman.html turns into http://tinyurl.com/5fk9jv Another friendly advice message from the smartest guy on the block 🙂
I’m surprised what people find interesting on my website. The most popular post is actually the Haversine formula page. Thinking about it, that whole process was a real pain in the butt to implement, so I can see that if someone else had to do it, that I could actually save them some time and … Read more
I had a PowerBook that was showing it’s age. I didn’t feel like buying new computer so I actually bought a Mac mini on the recommendation of one of my co-workers. Setting up the machine is typical Mac: plug in and go. The migration assistant made transferring everything over to my new computer way too … Read more
I set up this blog site for programming. I set up this site so that I could share with other programmers some of the problems I have had and how I overcame them. I set up this site, so that I could share with other developers who had similar problems as I did. I didn’t … Read more
Apple doesn’t go out of their way when they have a batch of computers that have problems, unless of course those computers blow up and cause bodily damage. The problem I’m talking about is the PowerBook G4 lower memory bank dying (apple.com). Apparently, there was a whole lot of laptops that had this problem, but … Read more
You know, I want to go to WWDC, but I couldn’t justify the trip. I had to many things going on at that point in time. The more time went on, the more I thought about going. The track I was really interested in was OpenCL. Honestly, I didn’t think it would sell out. But … Read more
“With AT&T as the mandatory carrier, owning an iPhone is like dating a supermodel with cancer” (wired.com) I think that about sums it up!
Recently, I needed to automate printing a Word document to a PDF file and have it saved to a predefined location. There were some good articles on the web about how to do the printing part, or the PDF part but not how to save the output. So, here’s my stab at printing a Word … Read more
Last month, my Xbox 360 died. Again. This is the third Xbox for me… All have died from the stupid red ring of death. This time around, the Microsoft tech’s messed up my support ticket, so after a week of waiting around, I had to have them cancel the ticket and re-create my ticket so … Read more
In my previous post, I showed how you can leverage AppleScript to check out a file or a project that resides on a Perforce server. The reason for this is that Xcode 3.x does not work well with Perforce. Now, I figured out how to do this with the build in scripts menu in Xcode. … Read more