I though the Tails plugin for Firefox was pretty cool, but now IBM has come out with Operator. This thing’s cool.
I just don’t understand why it can grab vCard data and add it to Apples Address Book, but it uses Google Calendar to store vEvent data instead of iCal. Ah well, it’s extensible, so I guess there’s an incentive for me to do it myself 
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I just found a new web site, very Web2.0, called Library Thing. I set up an account for myself, but I thought the registration process a bit odd. The is a single login form that doubles as a registration form. Just type in your user name and password, and if you don’t already have an account, you just created it anyway!
That seems cool, in an easy to register way. But what if you mistype your username? You just created a new account? I tested what happens if you mistype the password, and it’s at least smart enough not to create two accounts with the same username, but I reckon it would be pretty easy to type the wrong username.
One of the lessons we learn in software engineering is that there is almost always a more elegant solution.
I have a problem, a puzzle, that has had me stumped for weeks. It’s a physical problem, not a software problem. I found an old lock in an old door. It’s just a little door, like for a mail box. In fact is *is* a door from a mail box. But it had this beaut little lock in it and I’ve been trying to get the lock out for weeks. It’s been sitting on my desk, and every now and then, I pick it up and look at it and try to figure it out. It just won’t come out.
It’s obvious that it must be simple enough to install, and for security reasons I can understand that they don’t make it easy to take out. But there *must* be a way, right?
I worked it out, this morning.
It was stuck.
Plain old fashioned stuck. I hit it with a hammer, and out it popped. Boy, do I feel stupid. All this time I was thinking there must be a smarter way to do this. Constantly over analyzing the problem, looking for the elegant solution.
In the end, it was the words of my old boss that did the trick…
If it don’t fit, hit harder!
This has been driving me nuts for the last couple of weeks. Everytime I start Dreamweaver, it’s forgotten all my passwords.
Finally I found this issue on the Adobe site. Apparently it’s caused by IE7, which I installed a couple of weeks ago, right when the trouble began, only I never connected the dots.
Apparently it’s easily fixed by downloading the 8.0.2 updater from Adobe. But it’s just my luck that this isn’t working either. The updater, while saying it exited successfully, doesn’t do anything.
And the fix for that? Uninstall Dreamweaver, then reinstall everything, and *then* run the updater again.
If this doesn’t work, I’ll have to either go back to an earlier version of Dreamweaver, or go back to IE6.
There’s lots of definitions of what Web2.0 means. But I just realized today what the most common feature of a Web2.0 site was.
Ex.ess.ive.use.of.dots.in.names
If you care about web development, get Firebug 1.0!
It’s just gone Beta, something I’ve been eagerly anticipating for a while now.
This things gona rock
