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The world is aflame these days as rails and java advocates take potshots at each other’s tool of choice. I’ve glanced at ruby on rails a couple of times over the last few months but not given it a serious look. At this month’s Denver JUG meeting David Geary presented an intro to [...]

I recently upgraded to KDE 3.4. I had been waiting for the gentoo folks to unmask it (or rather, promote it from ~x86) but I got tired of waiting. I found a nice script called “gimme” here . This script will add a package to /etc/portage/package.keywords effectively marking that package as ~x86 [...]

Well, since things were already falling apart at the seams after my aborted upgrade, I decided to finish the job. As it turns out, it would seem the init scripts my hosting provider uses weren’t quite killing tomcat. killall -9 took care of the zombie processes and the upgrade went mostly smooth after [...]

Well, I tried to upgrade to the new roller today. Initially i was getting an error about a JDBC driver of ” which of course nothing could work with. Once I resolved that (mainly by handwaving and gnashing of teeth) I finally got roller to start up with my old data. However, [...]

I have several friends who are constantly harping on concrete inheritence saying it’s “evil” and breaks encapsulation. Though I have never heard an adequate explanation of how it breaks encapsulation, one argument I’ve heard is that it’s impossible to unit test a class that extends another. “How do you isolate a class from [...]