I had a Plantronics Voyager Pro+ headset that I rather liked. But I lost it. :( So when I went shopping for a replacement, I decided to see what else was out there. I tried out two other headsets, the Jawbone ERA and Jawbone ICON, but in the end, returned them. I mostly use a [...]
When developing an AIR app, it’s common to want to start it clean, as if there were a new user launching the app for the first time. Flash Builder even supports this, with a checkbox in the Debug Configuration dialog for “Clear application data on each launch”. This clears out the local storage for the [...]
This is a fairly simple program that was intended to be the start of something bigger. In it’s current form, it’s an Insteon PLM (PowerLineModem) protocol client that uses a TCP connection to an Insteon SmartLinc (2412N) device to send commands over the power line / wireless mesh to an Insteon iMeter Solo (2423A1), to [...]
I was hand-editing some JSON today in BBEdit, and wanted to keep it valid and nicely formatted. Copying the text and pasting it into jsonlint.com is no fun, so I went looking for a solution. I found this post on a creating a Python script and dropping it into the right place to get JSON [...]
I haven’t reviewed a non-tech product in a while, but I’ve been introduced to a new appliance that I think is worth mentioning. I bought a water boiler. It all started with “I should drink more tea”. Why don’t I drink more tea? Because I’m impatient and I don’t like hanging around waiting for the [...]
There’s a saying, “Security is a process, not a product”. But companies don’t ship processes, they ship products. Now, when you buy some products, you’re also buying the process. If you’re running Windows, Mac OS, iOS, the Xbox 360, or a PS3 (to cite a few examples), then assuming your device is online and keeping [...]
I was working on a spec in a wiki based editor yesterday and I noticed how uncomfortable I was working on this document in a browser. This is a long, fairly important document I was working on, and I was working on it in a tool designed for easy skipping from page to page, deigned [...]
I think the industry is completely underestimating the impact that iCloud and Apple’s cloud storage implementation is going to have. Applications synchronising data between devices is going to just work, without the user having to do anything to set it up. No accounts, no paying for separate services, nothing. Just buy the app in iTunes [...]
I’ve been writing some code that talks to Jackrabbit, and wanted to write some tests. Testing this sort of thing has traditionally been fairly difficult, because so much of your code is just calls into Jackrabbit. You’d need to create a lot of mock objects to mock the Jackrabbit side of the test, often leading [...]
Implementing an OSGi service using Maven isn’t hard, but there are a bunch of little pieces to pull together the first time through the process. Let’s create a SlingPostProcessor. A SlingPostProcessor is called by Sling just before POSTed changes are written into the repository. It provides a mechanism for validating what goes into the repository. [...]