Archive for February, 2008

Linus Torvald’s talk at Google, about Git, a distributed version control system. I screen-captured his slides, and they are available for download or for view. I’ve been playing with git a bit in my personal projects. My workplace still uses Perforce though. When on the road, I have the whole repo with me and can... »

Keep getting an “invalid argument” error when using Luigi Auriemma’s uif2iso after compiling on Mac OS X? In a nutshell, you will have to use “fseeko” instead of “fseek”, and “ftello” instead of “ftell” in his uif2iso.c file, when compiling in OS X. I have made the appropriate changes (uif2iso.c), as well as fixed the... »

Recently I had a programming challenge in that I estimated a feature for this Java application that needed to know whether a certain program was running, and if it was running, terminate it. Of course, in Java, it cannot be done in a cross-platform way. You can certainly launch a process in Java, then terminate... »

If you have NetBeans 6.0 and you want to use the bundled JRuby, you might as well get 6.0.1 if you want NetBeans to handle updating the JRuby Gems for you (after changing the permissions of the JRuby gems directory of course, see below). NetBeans 6.0 has an OutOfMemory stack problem when trying to... »