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24 Mar 09

Reality Bites -- Emotiv -- Mind Reading Device

From site: "The scientists at Emotiv have done the impossible: created a brain-wave-reading headset that lets you conjure entire worlds using nothing but your mind -- a breakthrough that could be worth billions. Now comes the hard part."

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04 Mar 09

RAID-Z : Jeff Bonwick's Blog

From site: "RAID-5 (and other data/parity schemes such as RAID-4, RAID-6, even-odd, and Row Diagonal Parity) never quite delivered on the RAID promise -- and can't -- due to a fatal flaw known as the RAID-5 write hole."

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12 Feb 09

10 reasons your star programmer may be looking to leave | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com

From site: "Top programmers are not easy to find. Yet all too often, these hard-to-find (and hard-to-hire) employees are neglected once they come on board. Here are 10 reasons why your star programmer might be looking to leave, and what you can do to convince them to stick around."

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09 Feb 09

Windows 7 UAC flaws and how to fix them - Ars Technica

From site: "A number of security flaws have been found in Windows 7's streamlined UAC—flaws that Windows Vista is immune to—prompting a series of surprising responses from Microsoft. We take a look at what the flaws are, and what's being done about them."

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03 Feb 09

James Shore: The Decline and Fall of Agile

  • “I think this is very indicative of the desire among managers especially to want to believe in a process or formula, and to fail to recognise the comparitively massive impact of the quality of the people in the team on project outcomes. 
     
    Basically, great developers tend to do good work, and bad developers tend to do poor work, and no process or methodology can fix that. 
     
    The real problem that successive methodologies have tried to solve is that the majority of professional software developers don't actually know how to write good code. 
     
    Scrum is just the latest competence substitute, and it understandably falls just as short as all its predecessors. 
     
    Invest in the people, their skills and in helping them to exercise discipline and reward good habits. Sadly, it's not a quick fix, which is why most organisations don't bother. 
     
    The missing ingredient from the Agile Manifesto is CRAFTSMANSHIP. It's like a whole bunch of musicians running around trying to look cool and talking about their "art" when the vast majority can't play a major scale. The problem is that teams adopt Agile before they've learned all the "hard skills" that the Agile founders like Kent Beck and Bob Martin take for granted, like OO design. But they talk about software development as if they've mastered it, when all they've really mastered is planning poker and how to run a retrospective. They still write poorly constructed, buggy and ummaintainable code. Because it takes years to learn how to write elegant, well-constructed and reliable code. And why waste years honing those skills when you can get Scrum Certified in a week? 
     
    Sadly, all these apprentices don't know what they don't know and simply will not accept that they have much to learn (as do we all!)  

  • Now many people who call me already have Agile in place (they say), but they're struggling. They're having trouble meeting their iteration commitments, they're experiencing a lot of technical debt, and testing takes too long. So they hire me to help them with one of these things. When I go visit, I see a team that is nominally agile, but is suffering huge numbers of problems and is anything but the joyful, settled, smooth-running workplace I expect from an agile organization.



    Other consultants I've talked to report the same experience. "Rescuing Scrum teams keeps me in business," joked one colleague. It's funny because it's true.

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29 Jan 09

Why can’t President Obama keep his Blackberry? | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com

From site: "President Obama wants to to keep in touch with people in a manner he’s accustomed to. Can a technological powerhouse like the United States government figure out how to make it so? Let’s find out."

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15 Jan 09

IE6 Duplicate Characters Bug - CSS fixes and workarounds

From site: "Internet Explorer 6 has a puzzling bug involving multiple floated elements; text characters from the last of the floated elements are sometimes duplicated below the last float. This bug is a real headbanger because there seems to be nothing triggering it."

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PNG in Windows IE

From site: "This site is all about a JavaScript-based PNG fix for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 on Windows. The fix allows IE to properly render PNG alpha transparency."

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12 Jan 09

Apple - Support - Discussions - Go>Connect to Server Missing ...

  • I'm trying to connect to a computer via bonjour that I know the address of, but the "connect to server" command is missing from the Go menu. I have file sharing turned on. I'm not sure what is wrong. Thanks.

  • in your main account delete the file homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. then control-option-click on finder in the dock and choose "relaunch". this will reset finder prefs to the defaults.
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Odd Finder/Connect to Server behavior [Archive] - The macosxhints Forums

A forumpost about problem with Finder in Mac OSX with solution.

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  • I had a problem crop up yesterday and I haven't been able to make it go away. I was working on setting up another user account on my machine. When I logged back in to my account and clicked on the Finder icon in the Dock, instead of a Finder window, I got a Connect To Server dialog box. It was as if I had double-clicked on a alias for something on a server I'm not connected to: it came up for a particular server in our building with my username filled in and was waiting for a password.
  • The problem was caused by my having dragged a folder from our server to my Finder's sidebar.
16 Dec 08

creating a new folder via code - ColdFusion

  • Hey Katy,



    to create a a folder, use this syntax



    <cfdirectory directory= "#ExpandPath( '.\NewFolder\' )#" action="create">



    Now we've just created this,



    http://bridalnetworks.net/NewFolder

Dennis Miller Flex and Coldfusion Development: File Upload using Coldfusion and Flex

From site: "I have been asked several times for a simple example to illustrate uploading a file using ColdFusion with a Flex client. This example was designed to allow users to upload an image file."

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05 Dec 08

Uploading files in Flex using the FileReference class at Flex Examples

Question on weather it is possible to import and display an image in a Flex app (Flash Player 9) without sending it to the server first. Also asking weather it's possible to upload a file using RemoteObjects instead of HTTP service (URLRequest).

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  • Hello,

    I don’t think Paul’s question was answered and my questions goes in a similar direction.

    Is there a way to get the image data from the FileReference object? Or is there another objet that would allow me to?


    The reason is, I would like to covert the image data to a bitearray and send it with other information to AMFPHP as a remote Object.


    I’ve been looking around for an example or tutorial that would come close to this but I can’t find one that actually show how to get the user to load (import) the image in my flex app. from a filebrowser like component.


    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    -Alain

  • Alain,


    Similarly, you’d have to use the FileReference object to have the user select a file from their operating system. Next, you would need to upload the file to a server to save the file and then redownload the image and get the image data that way (for the same reasons as above, Flash Player doesn’t allow for immediate data access without sending the data to the server).


    You may want to ask the same question on a high traffic list like FlexCoders and see if anybody else has any clever solutions or workarounds.


    Peter

Adobe Forums - File upload through BlazeDS remote object?

A possible workaround to the problem of only being able to use HTTP service requests in Flex to do a file upload.

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  • After researching file upload options in flex, it seems like the only option is through HTTP service requests, such as:

    private var fileRef:FileReference;

    ....

    fileRef.upload(new URLRequest(FILE_UPLOAD_URL));

    Is there any way to use BlazeDS remote objects to upload a file from Flex interface? Perhaps passing in a FileReference object and marshalling it into an equivalent Java object?
  • I know there is a workaround like this. It uses a servlet to upload a file and returns a url. The uploaded file is either stored in session or server file system until the session expires. Use the PropertyProxy to register a custom class which contains this url and convert to java.io.File. It is the limitation of the player. It cannot read the local file system for security reason. There is a sample in blazeds/trunk/qa/apps/qa-regress/WEB-INF/src/blazeds/qa/remotingService/Echo.java

    static

        {

            PropertyProxyRegistry registry = PropertyProxyRegistry.getRegistry();

            PropertyProxy proxy = registry.getProxy(java.io.File.class);

            if (proxy == null)

            {

                registry.register(java.io.File.class, new FileProxy());

            }

            proxy = registry.getProxy(FileReference.class);

            if (proxy == null)

            {

                registry.register(FileReference.class, new FileReferenceProxy());

            }

        }

    Hope it can help<!--end msg-->
21 Nov 08

creacog » flex, mac, external browser

A workaround to the "multiple open copies error" in Flex Builder 3 when trying to open the Flex help contents in Firefox when it is already opened.

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  • We are setting up Builder to launch the help pages into an external browser. The key advantage of which being that the code samples can then be copy/pasted. On a Mac there is a recognised bug in eclipse that if you choose Firefox as the external browser, and it is NOT your normal system default browser. Basically Eclipse attempts to launch a second instance of Firefox which will generate the “Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time” dialogue…

    • Option 2, if you want to keep something else set as your system default browser e.g. Safari, but would use Firefox for displaying Flex Builder help, you need to either edit or create a new external browser entry using a command structure as per comment 5 on the eclipse bug sheet. Essentially the following settings work…


      • Location: /usr/bin/open
      • Parameters: -a firefox %URL%
18 Nov 08

SMB users and file ownership issues | AFP548

A forum thread with workaround fix to SMB users and file ownership problems (Mac OSX Leopard Server v10.5.x)

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  • Hi all,



    I'm having a curious issue with my new 10.5 server installation. Here's the whole picture:

    -Brand new Quad Core Xserve

    -Started as Workgroup configuration, but promoted to Advanced

    -Bound to Active Directory

    -Is OD Master, and the only OD server I have.



    We organize our file storage here a little differently than others do- I have a script that queries the database for our accounting system, and when new jobs are created in that database, a folder hierarchy is made in the format

    Client

    --Job Number

    ----Department1

    ----Department2

    ----Department3



    I have permissions set so that users have full control of content within each DepartmentX folder, but no higher. Under AFP, everything works out exactly as we want it to.



    When the same account logs in under SMB (which will only be used by my few Windows clients), I see the following symptoms:

    -User could create a folder, but can't name it differently than the default. You could make New Folder and New Folder (2), but make a folder and try to rename it, Windows responds with a cannot rename, access denied error.

    -Same applies for right-click: New Text Document. Default names are acceptable, renaming isn't allowed.

    -New Folder can be opened, and written to. Files here can be saved and renamed at will.



    I've tried setting the DEfault permissions to be both "inherit from parent" and Assigning as Read and Write for everyone, with no luck.



    Again, the same user accounts logging in under AFP are fine.



    Does anyone have a guess what setting I have wrong here?



    Thanks.
  • Yeah, I started that thread too. Wink



    I found a workaround via the mac-os-x-Server list:



    > The workaround is to append the following lines to /etc/smb.conf:

    >

    > [global]

    > acl check permissions = no

    >

    > See smb.conf(8) for a detailed explanation of what Samba is trying to

    > do. the problem arises because Darwin ACLs are closer to Windows ACLs

    > that to POSIX ACLs, so Samba doesn't quite get the access check

    > correct on Darwin.



    This will tell SMB to disregard ACL's. I'm sure there must be some drawback to that, however. But it does make the server useful for Windows clients, which is better than it is now.
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