I remember cutting out snowflakes out of the paper around New Year time. It was fun and strangely addictive. I thought I was over it.
Obviously not, as I have found this virtual Make-a-Flake game (if one can call it that) and I am snipping away again.
What is a server access log and how much information can one actually extract from it? If you don’t know, read this good introductory article on the subject.
And if you find the article interesting, look for other logs your server/application produces. The easiest way to find out what log files you have is to run [...]
I wrote about GraphViz before, but so many new Java projects showed up, that I thought it was worth making an update.
Grand: Ant config file visualizer that even better than other options I wrote about before.
LightUML: UML generator from Java classes
Linguine Maps: Visualizer library for many types including WSDL, Ant, Hibernate and DTD
JarAnalyzer: Dependency visualization [...]
Stingy Scholar has collected a list of links to language study websites for less-popular languages (think Greek, Korean and Icelandic).
Recommended for comparison and (if you language is on the list) for the study.
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Yakov Fain writes (from experience) about good and bad aspects of Russian programmers for outsourcing.
I left Russia well before American companies thought of trusting russian (or indian) programmers. But I remember the software and ingenious hacks written back then by my friends to work with limited computing resources available. I participated in programming competitions and [...]
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If you speak more than one language and have a blog, join the Carnival of Blog Translation.
I am not a translator, but I do speak (and write) English and Russian. I will be participating. The next step is to figure out whether I should do it from Russian into English or from English into [...]
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I used to rave to everybody about how good ProcessExplorer from Sysinternals was for technical troubleshooting. Oops, I guess I was too loud.
The new license terms state:
A commercial license is required to use the software in any way not covered above, including for example:
Use of the software for technical support on customer computers
This license does [...]
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Russ Olsen (via Michael Baum) writes about tools to use in production, when ones does not have access to tools. Specifically, when one does not have access to tools like Eclipse IDE.
He mentions a good list of tools, though he has a bit too much praise about Strace. To quote:
Ever wonder why your program can’t [...]
My movie has been in the development for a while. It started around Christmas, but took a long while to get all 3 voice-over tracks recorded, edited and aligned to subtitles.
In addition, the Movies game - which is what I used - has infuriating habits of losing the subtitle and sound track locations around if [...]
Michael Baum quotes my feedback on his survey article, but completely misses that we actually want the same thing. We just approach it from different angles.
To get to the (misunderstood) point:
The notion that IT people need even more data generated by developers kinda misses the point. Troubleshooting production applications is a whole lot [...]