March 14th, 2007
We at Maxim Software Corporation proudly announced today our acquisition of http://www.codejacked.com, a website of productivity tips for Windows and Linux users. CodeJacked.com is the brainchild of Kyle Pott, a programmer and productivity expert who is now lending his writing skills to lifehack.org (which has to do with productivity, in general, whereas CodeJacked.com is focused on “jacking up” computer-user productivity). CodeJacked.com was briefly dormant while the sale was pending, but regular daily postings resumed last Monday.
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March 8th, 2007
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March 2nd, 2007
Stephen Colebourne, the guy behind JodaTime, writes in his Weblog that JSR 310 has been opened with the goal of improving the date & time support in Java.
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March 2nd, 2007
The most powerful tool in the knapsack of a software archeologist/maintainer, is the grep search. Unfortunately the signal-to-noise ratio for grep search results can often be quite low. This happens when the project source files are intermingled with other artifacts such as generated files, raw templates, library/framework documentation files and examples.
One trick to filtering out the noise is to define a shell script that uses Rsync to create/update a searchable shadow copy of the working folder, and then to search that copy… Continue Reading »
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