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Re: Why Linux (and Windows) just doesn't cut it | Ted Wise

Ted Wise — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:12:39 -0000

You can run Vim and Emacs just fine on OS/X.

I've seen very few crashes from either OS/X _or_ Linux. Both tend to be driver issues and both tend to occur around major releases. I will say that Linux definitely handles system loads better but OS/X handles UI interactivity better. Linux makes for a much better server, and, in my opinion, OS/X makes for a much better desktop. It's far easier to bog down the UI on Linux then on OS/X.

Re: Why Linux (and Windows) just doesn't cut it | Ted Wise

Paulgrinberg — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:24:23 -0000

You bring up some important points. Yes Windows is the worst environment for Web Development as it lacks the basic Unix fundamentals that all web applications run on. However, I have to disagree with you on the relative merits of abandoning Linux outright for Mac OS X. Fine, in certain areas the Mac is awesome and that usually is in the area of graphics, video and sound editing in that area it rocks. But in the area of development it's almost as bad as Windows. TextMate can never and will never be able to compare to the engineering level tools of Vim or Emacs. My coding has sped up by 10x times after learning Vim and is much deeper. Mac OS X is a really well engineered system but not for development. The system crashes way too much, slows to a halt when doing CPU intensive things like compiling or dealing with huge files and managing packages and libraries is hell not to mention no ability to do apt-get or yum to instantly download and install packages sucks.

In short Linux may not be the greatest system for desktop users or graphics/media/sound designers but it is the IDEAL system for programmers and for development.

Re: New Geek Tool Weather Script

Stefan Melnychenko — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:49:55 -0000

Can this be used for Canadian Postal Codes, or do I have to do a location lookup? If it is a lookup that must be done, I'm having some serious problems right now. I'm typing the following line
ruby ~/Documents/GeekTool_Files/Scripts/Weather/acweather.rb --lookup "Langley, Canada"

and the following is returned:
Location = Postal code/Zipcode/Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/encoding.rb:11:in `encoding=': Bad encoding name LATIN1 (ArgumentError) from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/source.rb:55:in `encoding=' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/source.rb:46:in `initialize' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/source.rb:162:in `initialize' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/source.rb:17:in `new' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/source.rb:17:in `create_from' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb:127:in `stream=' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb:116:in `initialize' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:9:in `new' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:9:in `initialize' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/document.rb:231:in `new' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/document.rb:231:in `build' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/document.rb:43:in `initialize' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/Documents/GeekTool_Files/Scripts/Weather/acweather.rb:83:in `new' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/Documents/GeekTool_Files/Scripts/Weather/acweather.rb:83:in `lookup_postal' from /Users/stefanmelnychenko/Documents/GeekTool_Files/Scripts/Weather/acweather.rb:155:in `<main>'

Perhaps you could shed some light on what I am doing wrong? Also, all of the examples I see of calling this file from the terminal do not have `ruby` in front. Yet when I call without `ruby`, I get a `command not found`. I know this is an older post. Perhaps it doesn't work with the new version of Ruby?</main>

Re: Super Simple SoapUI Tests

Alisha Rosee — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:18:42 -0000

Very good article. I think this would help me determine in few mins if my services are working fine in tandem. Although I am not sure how we can transfer more than one property between two webservice call. Since new_property can be used for only one property

Re: Select deadlocks in SQL Server – AKA SQL Server sucks

Nellie — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:14:33 -0000

Thanks for this, Ted. We're encountering deadlocks in SQL Server selects and it's been driving me batty. This info will help!

Re: Micro-Tip: Using Subclipse on OS/X with Homebrew | Ted Wise

Dave S — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:50:45 -0000

Just a heads up for later readers: if you have already installed subversion via homebrew, then you'll need to run:
brew uninstall subversion
brew uninstall neon # critical!

It's not enough to just uninstall subversion, because neon will not be rebuilt as a universal binary and thus trying to install a universal subversion will fail.

Re: Select deadlocks in SQL Server – AKA SQL Server sucks

Ted Wise — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:57:17 -0000

What a pleasant demeanor you have. You're correct, two select statements won't deadlock against each other. I never said they would. But a select statement will deadlock against a parallel update. Without snapshotting turned on you can get deadlocks on selects. There's no way around it, that's ridiculous.

The application database I was working against at the time wasn't modifiable to switch to snapshots. My queries would randomly deadlock as the third-party application ran updates against the database. This was surprising to me in that I'd never worked extensively with SQL Server and hadn't ever seen a _query_ deadlock before. The bulk of my Enterprise experience was with Oracle which isolates selects. As do most other Enterprise-level databases. But not SQL Server. Hence this posting.

Re: Select deadlocks in SQL Server – AKA SQL Server sucks

Aa — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:06:28 -0000

SELECT statements issue SHARED locks... these can co-exist.
Deadlocks do not occur between two select statements that do not modify data since they only issue SHARED locks...
This article, is rubbish.

Re: Dark Pastels theme for IntelliJ IDEA

Dave Townsend — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:34:25 -0000

running it in 10.5.1 looks and works great!

Re: Simple guide to Maven

Pekanbaru — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:27:16 -0000

we're just a beginner, with a long exposure, and this obviously makes us become more aware..

Re: New Geek Tool Weather Script

Rodrigo Loyola — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:41:45 -0000

I've the same problem, I can get this to run in terminal, I copy the command to GeekTool and it does nothing, I'm just a step behind to take advantage of this gorgeous tool, can you give me some advise? thanks a lot.

Re: Homebrew vs. MacPorts | Ted Wise

Haywood Jablome — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:33:48 -0000

Unless you enjoy hacking dependencies back together just use MacPorts like an adult and you will find it works well. There is a place for Homebrew, but if you are asking the question of which one to use then the answer is likely MacPorts.

Re: New Geek Tool Weather Script

Jaslyn — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:39:28 -0000

Hi there! From update 3, i was not able to get my postal code and zipcode. This is what i got,
jaslyn-yings-macbook:~ Jaslyn$ /Users/Jaslyn/Documents/GEEKTOOL/Weather/acweather.rb --lookup “Singapore, Singapore”Location = Postal code/Zipcode

and nothing else.

Was wondering if you can help me out here! it will be greatly appreciated!

Jaslyn

Re: Printing in color to the Savin C3535 printer from OS/X

Marc — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:42:23 -0000

I have been trying to figure this out forever! Thanks for posting. I am using Lion.

Re: Windows and OS/X steal from each other

R I O T — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:27:18 -0000

LOL; more info about supposedly stolen ideas from Microsoft can be found on
http://blogd.com/wp/index.php/...
Summarizing, Microsoft has been always stealing - clueless employees are there.

Re: What do those weird Mac symbols mean?

alex — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:34:51 -0000

Actually, the Return key symbol is wrong. U+21A9 is leftwards arrow with hook. The Return symbol is U+23CE, or ⏎.

Re: Which browser is fastest?

alkalitta — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:51:18 -0000

bullshit and merry xmas to y'all

Re: Super Simple SoapUI Tests

P Smithas — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:51:48 -0000

Hi...
I am working on a wadl file and not wsdl file. I want to transfer a list of response from a groovy script to a properties file using property transfer. HOw do i do that?
Also, while doing xpath match assertion, we can also do this without giving the namespace i.e.,
<response xmlns="a string here"> <user>xyz</user> <password>xyz</password> <token>0766cb22f35dc96e6e4933480405a3e9bda00cfa81f004e7db223e19ef3f8658</token></response>

if i dint have xmlns, in the response tag my xpath to fetch token would be //Response//token
But with the attribute present in the tag, how to accomplish this?

Re: Dark Pastels theme for IntelliJ IDEA

Tommy Säfström — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:23:51 -0000

Using the adapted version by Paul below, works great. Thanks a lot!

Re: OS/X Java MicroTip: Decompile Java class from the Finder | Ted Wise

Scott Tromley — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:40:43 -0000

Thanks for the great tip. Just one thing I think you should add:

Your script fails to put the JAD files into the correct directory if their current directory has any spaces in it. Instead of using `dirname $1` try using "$(dirname $1)"
So it becomes:
jad -lnc -o -d "$(dirname $1)" $1

Re: Maven Micro-Tip: Get sources and Javadocs

Bla — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:11:23 -0000

thank you

Re: Homebrew vs. MacPorts | Ted Wise

Brian M. Hays — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:21:03 -0000

This is really great. Thank you! I thought something was weird when it took 20 minutes for macports to install a port.

Re: Printing in color to the Savin C3535 printer from OS/X

Allison — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:10:49 -0000

I had this working beautifully, but then upgraded to Lion. Any idea how to create the same fix?

Re: Homebrew vs. MacPorts | Ted Wise

James Rinkevich — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:33:43 -0000

You just illustrated why macports doesn't work and homebrew does: The current version of darcs is 2.5.2, macports is still at 2.4.1 and hasn't been touched in the last 5 weeks. version 2.5.2 which was released 8 months ago. However using brew you can install haskell-platform and then use cabal to install darcs. With macports I'm always having to fix the port file to get the latest released software. Writing a formula doesn't appear harder than writing a Port file: if anything, probably easier.

Re: OS/X Microtip: Making forced Exchange server signatures output correctly | Ted Wise

Jordane Cau — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:33:33 -0000

That was very helpful, even so many months after you posted it ! Thanks ! Unless you've found another way to force the ouput in Rich HTML regarless of the formatting ?