It’s impressive how Google Talk is a single executable. No DLLs, and just one 2mb executable. All the resources – the ring sound, the graphics – are contained within the EXE. Looking through the Google Talk executable, I found a URL: http://www.globalipsound.com/ Visiting their site, it looks like they’re a provider of VoIP technology. An […]
Installing the Web Standard Tools update worked, and gave me the Database Explorer pane. I downloaded the JDBC driver for SQL Server 2000 and then got to the dialog in Eclipse where I need to configure it. Eclipse tries hard to provide defaults for things in most places, but here it fails. I’m asked to […]
The first problem I’ve been running into has nothing really to do with Eclipse, other than that it’s not handling a common failure very well. To use Eclipse to browse my database, I need to install a plugin – I’m not sure which plugin exactly, but I know at work I have Eclipse with all […]
I’m going to switch from Community Server to something else. At this point, it looks like it’s probably WordPress. I’ve been looking for a project I can use to familiarize myself with the nuts and bolts of Java development, so migrating my blog content will be my project. As part of a different project, I’ve also […]
I’ve been looking for a new theme, because some of the articles I’ve written don’t work very well in the narrow format of the default theme. For some reason, most of the WordPress themes I’ve found involve a very narrow strip of content down the middle of the page. Strange. I guess this works well […]
I’m switching my regular posting over to http://blog.stevex.net, so if you’re reading this (or subscribed to this), visit the new site and have a look.
Google just went live with Google Talk. It’s yet another IM service, but the great thing about it is it’s based on XMPP, the Jabber protocol. This is a general purpose real time communications protocol – basically streaming XML. You can hook a SAX parser up to it and treat parsed node callbacks as events. […]
I’ve been working on becoming a Java guy. Maybe not a 100% Pure Java guy, but a guy who’s at least familiar with Java and all that means today. J2EE is impressive in scope. I’m going through Sun’s J2EE 1.4 Tutorial and learning a lot from it. I had an unpleasant weekend trying to work […]
I found a feature I really like in Google Desktop 2.0. I’m buying a new house, and I’ve been working on a list of features I want to upgrade. I thought I’d received pricing on a particular feature, but I couldn’t find it, so I searched my desktop for it using GDS 2.0. It showed […]
Greetings. This is the blog engine I’m thinking of using, WordPress. So far it looks good. Simple, fast, and flexible enough for me. Any comments on WordPress?