Summary: Determine whether the particular stuff is worth our attention I really, really, enjoyed this Video. But before I will tell about my feelings let me tell you about what the Video is all about. Internet is one of the major sources of the information today – you can’t claim it is not. And the […]
Summary: Learn python efficiently There are two books devoted to Python you can find within Head First series. One of them is related indirectly – Head First Programming, second one is explicitly focused on Python – Head First Python. If you take a look at the content description you will find that some parts of […]
Summary: Improve my blog – make it more “fancy” Many blogs are based on the WordPress – today’s de facto standard for blogging platform. There are, usually, two ways of starting fun with WordPress – you are either so called Web nerd or totally green when it comes to all these Internet abbreviations like FTP, […]
From Terminal execute /Applications/Utilities/Java\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/Java\ Preferences Choose: Advanced -> Java console -> Show console
Recently, I wanted to share snippets across my machines, however, I didn’t want to use any external means of communication. I want to have everything “locally” – inside my private network. That’s what I have done: 1. create SVN repository or use one – take a look here -> SVN setup 2. move /Users/your_name/Library/Application Support/Snippets/Snippets.xml […]
I have performed few steps, and now it seems my Safari is again on good track: 1. Turn off Fraudulent sites: Safari -> Preferences -> Fraudulent sites -> uncheck 2. Clear history: History -> Clear History 3. Reset Safari: Safari -> Reset Safari 4. Disable AutoFill: Safari -> Preferences -> AutoFill -> uncheck all 5. […]
Summary: Learn iPhone programming Learning iPhone Programming is well organized and easy to read book. In first two chapters, it is explained why should we move to creating native applications and how to start the development process. There are few interesting remarks, especially in “Becoming a Developer” chapter. After explaining how to start development, readers […]
pbcopy – copies data into clipboard pbpaste – retrieves data from clipboard echo “Test” | pbcopy pbpaste
Summary: Learn programing Perl with elementary book Learning Perl is a typical elementary book. You can find there everything, beginner needs. You will be guided through the basics of Perl, elementary data types, structures and conditional loops. What this book reminds me is good old “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie. Authors of […]
Summary: free yourself from prejudices Scott takes you in a journey over the ideas you probably well known but was not aware of details. He goes though the history of innovation, shows us some interesting examples and provides with entertainment. I lack better proven, well formed references thou – especially when it comes to Philosophy […]
Summary: learn programming ;) I have read Head First series for quite some time. These books are just amazing. My first book was Head First Servlets and JSP and I liked the series from the very beginning. Now, I have few of them on my book shelf – I like the style of the series: […]
Here you can find the list of my picks (applications that I find useful for Mac OS X development) 1. TextMate – it’s like editor, but much, much, much better 2. Snippets – let’s you keep your all snippets organized (allows to share and export snippets) 3. Transmit 4 – well … simply saying … […]
Summary: get know how to code in elegant way Andy and Greg collected quite impressive set of IT related essays and enclosed them within Beautiful Code. These are the texts that refer to various topics and treat them in a hard, engineering way. There is no place for humanity science like stuff. There is quite […]
In order to increase your mouse speed execute within Terminal: defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling [scale_number] Put in place of a value that will fit your needs. 5, 7 or 10 probably will do a thing for you. After executing this command you have to log out and log in again.
Summary: get knowledge regarding most valuable programming practices What I have liked from the very beginning of the book, was the way the content description was organized. There are two tables of content – first one, regular one, second one divides book into different categories, thus you can read just essays related to particular topic. […]
Summary: get knowledge regarding various Open Source Licenses Recently I was faced a problem to determine which code can be used within the software when different licenses are mixed. Which was not a pleasant task. Studying legal related topics usually doesn’t count into ‘ten most interesting’ things software engineers like to do. However, sometimes you […]
Summary: get knowledge regarding Python Programming Python is one of these book you can kill with when dropped from appropriate height. I am not Python expert, rather casual Python programer, I focus rather on Java-Python bindings and I was looking for a book that I can use as a reference point. Python Programming covers quite […]
Summary: get something back from Facebook Facebook like portals are based on community – if there were no people willing to devote their time for it, Facebook wouldn’t exist. Question rises – am I able to get something back from Facebook? Vander Veer claims that it’s possible. By describing various features of Facebook explains how […]
Summary: get “something” from the Web and utilize it within iPhone When I started to watch this Video podcast I was confused at first. It looked like two guys discuss some demo application you could find plenty of over the Internet – but this was just a beginning. After short description of what we wanted […]
filozofia «nauka zajmująca się rozważaniami na temat istoty bytu, źródeł poznania itp.» «the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct» inżynieria oprogramowania «informatyka … pragmatycznie» «computer science … a pragmatic way»