These are some links for me to read, that may be of general use to anyone development Java software using Maven Java/JAR Adding Classes to the JAR File’s Classpath Maven: [#MPDIST-22] Use <dist.bundle> property of dependencies to include dependencies – jira.codehaus.org
A 2000 year old computer looks interesting BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited I must keep a lookout for the radio program on Dec 12th
Decisions, decisions! Should I buy a smaller, cheaper MacBook or a 15″ MacBook Pro with its larger screen? (I don’t like 17″ laptops, they’re just too big) Since I’ve written down the question, the answer is obvious — it depends on what I want to use it for! (unsurprisingly this is echoed by others). Space [...]
Just found out about the Nokia Software Updater, it’s available for upgrading several phone models. I haven’t tried it yet, I’ll hopefully get it installed and my 6680 upgraded over the weekend. (Although my connection problems seem to have gone away since I selected the network manually) Update: It appears that my phone already has [...]
These are my experiences of installing Ruby on Ubuntu. I didn’t install the Ubuntu package but went with the source on the Ruby On Rails website. Everything worked fine out of the box, just downloaded the files and followed their instructions (basically the following, in this order.) Download ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz and rubygems-0.9.0.tgz from the links on [...]
There is a new “blogging initiative” at work (well I think it’s new, I’m not there long myself). The company line seems to be that blogging is good for both the employer and the employee. The company has offered to setup blog hosting on their servers. It seems like a reasonable idea, but, I’m not [...]
Paul Watson informs that videos of the talks from RailsConf 2006 are available at http://blog.scribestudio.com/pages/rails/
Mícheál Ó Foghlú links to this PDF slideset. I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds interesting.