MONO INSTALL BUG (FOUND WHEN USING ECLIPSE)

I got this error after installing the Mono framework on MacOS X 10.5.6 and trying to set up a new project with eclipse. NAnt 0.86 (Build 0.86.2898.0; beta1; 12/08/2007) Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Gerry Shaw http://nant.sourceforge.net For more information regarding the cause of the build failure, run the build again in debug mode. Try 'nant -help' for more information BUILD FAILED Failed to...

WHY IS SOCIAL Q&A NOT EMBEDDED INTO OPERATING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS?

One thing that always bothered me about complex desktop applications like Adobe Photoshop or Eclipse, or even Desktop Linux is finding out how to use the more advanced features (or, truthfully, some of the basic features). I’ve always liked community response, so I’ve been on a number of mailing lists and it’s usually really helpful. What if these types of useful feedback were...

AMAZON / COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

collective intelligence is cool till you buy 1 macgyver DVD and amazon WON’T FUCKING STOP RECOMMENDING ME MACGYVER RELATED SHIT

GEEK LINKS

PHP Quick Profiler This looks like a pretty cool tool to get a good idea of what’s going on in your PHP script without having to install tools like XDebug and Webgrind / KCacheGrind. Apple files patent for browser specific volume I’m not sure how this is anything new, tons of applications have their own volume setting. Quicktime, VLC, Windows Media Player. Chris DeWolfe bails as...

APPARENTLY PEOPLE HATE ME

Not sure what I did, but I found this at the bottom of my chess game on facebook.

ENABLE MOD REWRITE ERROR LOG

Just a quickie - throw this in your apache config if you need error logging for mod_rewrite. Useful in a dev environment, not so much in production. RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log RewriteLogLevel 9

'ERLANG: UNDERSTANDING GEN_SERVER'

Gen_server is a great way to create simple servers without having to write a lot of code at all. Here’s a brief overview to get you started. For some reason, figuring out how the gen_server behavior works in erlang was kind of a pain for me. I think it’s because I can’t just implement something, I need to know why it works. Well, now I know. So, lets get started. Gen_server is...

INTERESTING PROGRAMMER LINKS

Peeping into memcached. Really interesting read about how to examine what’s stored in memcached. Peep uses ptrace to freeze a running memcached server, dump the internal key metadata, and return the server to a running state. If you have a good host ejection mechanism in your client, such as in the Twitter libmemcached builds, you won’t even have to change the production server pool....

C# ON THE MAC WITH ECLIPSE

It looks like developing using c# and eclipse on the Mac is pretty easy, at least on first glance. Here’s a good guide to get started. It only took about 2 minutes to go from “I think I’ll give this a shot” to “sweet it compiled.”

'ERLANG: CREATE SCHEMA BEFORE STARTING MNESIA'

If you’re running into trouble with Mnesia not writing your data to disk, make sure you create the schema BEFORE you start mnesia. Otherwise you’ll get errors like opt_disc. Directory "c:/Documents and Settings/jhaddad/workspace/Mnesia.localhost@whatever" is NOT used.