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More Proof that Programmers are Nuts
Have you heard of the “Facial Hair Theory“? Until yesterday I was unaware of it. But now I understand why I have to grow a beard. For those not interested in JavaScript, watch until you just can’t stop laughing, and then continue until you stop understanding what is written on the screen. Enjoy
CoffeScript – Syntactic Sugar for JavaScript
I attended today a meetup about CoffeeScript. I am not a javascript programmer (and never was), but CoffeeScript seemed to me from the presentation as a language that compiles to JavaScript, and was created to fix the problems that exist in that language (the hilarious WAT video shows some of them, but a nice series of blog posts here, here and here) It seems that the creators got a bit carried away an created a new language full of syntactic sugar which to my taste does not make things more simple or better, it just makes them different… Maybe in … Continue reading
How To Manage Copyright Licenses In Eclipse
It comes a time in every project’s life when the owner decides that he needs to copyright his work. This time came to me a while ago and to implement my wish I searched for some tool to help me update my code files without having to do it manually. Thankfully the guys at eclipse have already provided such a feature, which is bundled in the eclipse releng tools. After installing it from the eclipse update site, a new element is added to the preference dialog: And after setting your preferred license or inventing one yourself (there are lots of licenses, so … Continue reading
How To Reset Your Windows Password (If You Can Log-in As An Admin)
The laptop I use has a fingerprint reader so I rarely (if ever) write a password to enter my windows account. Today the fingerprint reader didn’t work (probably something to do with my KVM switch being connected or some other strange mixture of variables) and when I wrote my password… it told me it was wrong! I tried a number of passwords, but nothing happened. I read some blog entries on how to reset the password but nothing worked… And then I thought… Hey, I am an administrator. If I can log-in with my regular username, I can create another … Continue reading
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Tagged Login, Password, Password Recovery, Security, Windows
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Book Review – Going Postal
As I mentioned in a previous post, I should have read Going Postal book before reading Making Money, because it gives some interesting background on the characters that appear in both of the stories, and reading Making Money before Going Postal does spoil some of the fun. But nonetheless, this is another EXCELLENT book by Terry Pratchett. Both Making Money and Going Postal are an impressive parody about the monetary world and how most people are gullible and will transform lies given by others to truths in their head if they think the lie is to their advantage. And also of how … Continue reading
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Tagged Ankh-Morpork, book, Discworld, Going Postal, Making Money (Discworld Novels), review, terry pratchett
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