Archive for March, 2008
So Sick of Vista — Downgrade #2
I built my Media Center PC about 1 year ago, for the most part, it has set dormant because Vista would not work. A few weeks ago I tried it again, and I thought everything was working fine, until last night, I got 4 blue screen of deaths. It also seems that it does not [...]
Google Reader Update
I have removed some boring bloggers from my reader subscription. Off the list:
Guy Kawasaki – How To Change The World Blog
Seth Godin – Seth’s Blog
I added these two because they were popular, I am not sure why, though I might revisit in a few months to see if they got exciting again.
VMWare Another Great Thing…
I have been building PC's and transferring information around for a long time but over the past few weeks I have been reading about some free VMWare products and one really awesome product called VMWare Converter. We used this product to convert my wife's old XP machine to a VMWare machine, so she could run [...]
Computer Book Market
I found a really cool article at the O'Reily Radar that talks about computer languages. It confirms what I was thinking for sometime about trends in the industry. If you want to learn a new language, go for the green ones, or uber green ones.
Google Reader has changed my life…
I can't tell you how much time I save and how much more quality information I get from Google Reader as a news reader. I don't surf as much, I get more data without the ads (except feedburner ads) and the information I have found is really useful. Some of my favorite blogs: LifeHacker & [...]
Word Automation with Groovy
I have been working with Ruby and PHP for a bit of automation, but I thought I would give Groovy a shot. It turns out Groovy is just as easy.
First follow the steps at CodeHaus to install Scriptom. Then create a groovy file and paste this in.
package com.scottpreston.groovy.com;
import org.codehaus.groovy.scriptom.*;
def write_word() {
def word = new ActiveXObject(“Word.Application”);
word.Visible [...]
Language Uses & Editor Struggles
I was struggling for a bit on languages, which one to use, there are so many, do I use PHP, Ruby, Groovy, Python, or Jython or JRuby. I have settled on them let me summarize:
PHP – All my web programming will be in this language and my own custom framework.
Java – All my AI & [...]