Archive for November, 2008

Eclipse on Mac Java 6 Reveals More SWT Shortcomings

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Two years ago, I raised a few points about some of the short comings of SWT. Because of it’s native bindings, SWT makes the Java mantra of “write once, run anywhere” quite a bit more daunting. For the most part, SWT’s cross-platform support is actually quite good and it is a decent in terms of [...]

Wordpress Update Gone Bad

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

It’s always annoying to upgrade Wordpress and then to find out 2 days later that all of your links now return a 404 error. All this depsite the fact that it was all working just fine after the update. It turns out there seemed to be some kind of global change my hosting providers mod_rewrite [...]

Better Questions Get Better Answers

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Did you ever have that teacher or professor who always tried to tell you that: “there is no such thing as a stupid question?” This may have been true in school, but in a professional software engineering environment, I can confidently tell you there are some really dumb questions being asked. Before I rant [...]