For far too long we’ve been running our TeamCity build agents on Windows 2003 Server. This was, originally, driven by necessity. We were using Selenium, and out client cared only for a single browser: Internet Explorer. As time progressed we decided Selenium was costing us more than we received from it, so we dropped it. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Building Java 7 on Mac OS X
Update 26/5/9: Updated for last night’s source with the JIBX libraries, and note on the version of XCode. So, I’ve just got my laptop back after a brief separation. What does one do? Compile the JDK, of course! For those unfamiliar with the situation, Apple hate Java developers. Well, one suspects they do. Apple being [...]
Pixels of Doom!
About November last year I developed the afflication that all LCDs owners fear. Dead pixels. But not just one. Or two. Rather, I developed a cluster below the screen centre. In my darker moments I wondered if, like the black hole it resembled, it would slowly eat up my monitor, before sucking in my phone, [...]
Migration
Today, the most romantic day of the year, I finally sorted out this website. Previously I’d been running Drupal. Drupal has many good features – the problem is that it’s a better community CMS than a single-person blogging tool. Given that I seem to be slowly surrendering control over my tools to the cloud, the [...]
Keyboard Woes
Like many programmers, I’m very picky about my input devices. Particularly about keyboards – both at home and work I use a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Despite the overly lengthy name, it’s a superb piece of kit and I wouldn’t work without it. Apple, however, don’t believe in locales outside the US. And so [...]
Ghosts of the Past
I just stumbled across a misplaced comment: Dude, can you leave a note that infernus that used to be infernus.org, i now http://infernus.o0o.nu – we lost the domain at some point and I guess it is useless to try to recover it back cheers So, if you’ve been missing the website in question for the [...]
Checking the EDT with aspects
I am unreasonably fond of Swing. While it has plenty of foibles, and brings a new horror to UIs with Metal, it’s nevertheless quite a nice framework to use – once you’re familiar with it. The problem is that getting familiar is a path strewn with brambles and holes full on punji sticks. One of [...]
