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Office 2007 Adoption Barriers
Posted here. I've been using it for a while now, moved because of incompatibility issues.Perhaps the complete redesign of the interface? Try finding "save as" in Excel - the File menu no longer exists FFS! It is there, but now
Debugging Rails Applications
I've said that I use netbeans on this blog a few times but never really gone into why.First, I can park all of the class/project browsers and output windows in the margins of the page and they only pop-up when I click on them.Second, I can tear o
1972: Dead teachers don't lie
There were great tensions in society back then; tensions that people don’t remember now. They talk about class and ethnicity as if they were new phenomena now. But I lived in a country that tolerated Jews in a leery, cautious way. It had been n
Fun with openssl on Ubuntu and Ruby 1.8.6
We migrated a core system to our shiny new cluster on Friday. Colin got everything going apart from a call-out to a 3rd party back-end system that uses SOAP. Tracking down the problem:The error message was a method_missing talking about load_file.I d
Joel hits the nail on the head again
Joel does it again Part 1: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/03.html Part 2: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/04.htmlPart 3: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/05.htmlPosted on reddit.&
Coding Horror: Presentation: Be Vain
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001007.html?r=21636#endcommentsI spent most of my spare time from age 8 to 16 learning to play the guitar and these instant gratification things just annoy me.That said, I agree with the point that presentati