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Google Gears Updated for Firefox 3.6

// March 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // General

google_gears_logo_153x43 Finally! Google Gears has been updated for Firefox 3.6! The only thing I use Gears is for WordPress Turbo and I was worried that Google has totally stopped updating Gears. It was finally updated today and the Gears plugin is working again and chugging along.

KeePass on Ubuntu

// March 5th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // General

I finally wanted to have KeePass to track my uncontrolled registrations all over the Wild Wild Web. I google’d a bit and found no perfect guide on the web, so I’m writing one. Now that I’m using Linux running KeePass, a windows executable, is not so easy. You need to have mono to run KeePass under Linux.

The Process:

  • Check mono is installed: Installed by default in Ubuntu
  • Install mono-devel: sudo apt-get install mono-devel
  • Install System.Windows.Forms for Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms*
  • Download and extract KeePass portable
  • Run with the command: mono KeePass.exe

Tested on Ubuntu 9.10

Also works on Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

Python: Key Notes

// March 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // General

Level: Beginner – Intermediate

Some of the key concepts that I’m taking down as notes, while I was brush up my Python. I’ll keep updating this page as I move along.

  • Immutability of Strings
  • To find methods available with a specific object: dir(objectName)
  • Pattern matching: import re
  • Python (nested)lists → (multi-dimensional)arrays in other programming languages
  • Python Dictionaries → Java HashMap but more awesome, minus the java craziness.
  • Iteration Protocol
  • Tuples → Immutable Lists [ Ex: T=(1,2,3,4) ] Concatenation, indexing, slicing,etc., works.
  • Python Dictionaries → Java HashMap but more awesome, minus the java craziness.
  • Iteration Protocol
  • Tuples → Immutable Lists [Ex: T=(1,2,3,4)] Concatenation, indexing, slicing,etc., works

What’s up with Apple Developer Connection

// March 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // General

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They’re updating their site in the middle of the day? – As of 13:42PST Mar 04, 2010

Update: Its just the iPhone Dev Center – Hmm… Interesting.

Update 2: This seems to be the reason for their ‘outage’.

iMat [Funny]

// February 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // General

People desperately wanted Apple to make a tablet and when they finally did something – THEY DONT LIKE IT. Well they should try their hand at creating something to at least know how hard some people work to bring a product out. Its not necessary that they should love it instantly but it definitely needs the benefit of doubt.

691404701But have to agree it’s sort of funny. Original article at BEGEEK.

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