I’ve been writing some Google App Engine code lately and while the framework is very compelling and has many great features (e.g. task queues) it also has its shortcomings. The ones that bother me most are: No shared memory among instances. I even wrote a StackOverflow question about it to see whether I was missing [...]
Wow. 35. This age comes with some serious what-am-I-doing-with-my-life kind of thoughts. Being unemployed, single and living with a cat at that age is hardly normative (at least in Israel) and despite being very content with the current situation it’s hard not to ponder other life choices. In any case, it’s time for the yearly [...]
A week after the previous update, I started getting crash reports on the Android developer dashboard. The core reason for the crashes was that I started building Dindy against a newer Android platform version. As a result, a compatibility hack related to how services are started stopped doing its work and Dindy started crashing. To [...]
After a year of not updating Dindy and mainly apologizing to users from time to time because Dindy doesn’t work on their phones, I finally updated Dindy. The trigger was a change made in Locale, which Dindy supports. Sadly enough, I’m pretty sure it will still won’t work on many phones. I still haven’t managed [...]
Here are USB drivers and manuals for Thomson’s cable modem and gateway products. The manuals and driver in the zip file are for the following models: DCM325 DCM425 DCW725 DHG520 DHG525 TCM420 TCM425 TCW710 The manuals are in these languages: English French Swedish German Hebrew Dutch (the file name is Netherlands) Polish Portuguese Spanish These [...]
A friend of mine wanted to start using eBay, both as a buyer and as a seller. After just a few days her account was permanently suspended, with no option to ever return to eBay. The reason appears to be some mix-up with PayPal. I’m saying “appears to be” because eBay doesn’t tell you why [...]
After nearly 4 years since I bought my desktop computer and after complaining about constant thrashing I finally decided it’s time to give it a little upgrade. It now sports 8GB of memory instead of just 2, and the improvement is noticeable. The big culprits for the thrashing turned out to be Eclipse and Unity. [...]
I gave Unity a good chance, but it was simply torture. Maybe it’s the over 3 years old hardware I’m running Ubuntu on, or maybe it’s the servers I’m running on my machine for the project I’m working on, but the hard drive kept thrashing to a point where it was unbearable. Sometimes just clicking [...]
If you installed Ubuntu 11.04 and after a while the launcher stops auto hiding as it should, it may be because you did some dragging and dropping in an application. For example, if you use Konsole (like I do) and you drag one of Konsole’s tabs to reorganize their order, the launcher will suddenly pop [...]
… don’t use interpreted languages. You know… because of the extra CPU cycles. I had to get it out. Sorry.