Short Comments on Web Software Development

The Zune, Surprisingly Enjoyable

November 2, 2007

I bought a Zune off of woot.com at a huge discount and tried it out. It's really a nice little box that compares favorably with the iPod.

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Posted on November 2, 2007 2:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Syncing a handheld with Vista

August 22, 2007

I own an iPaq rz1710 running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition and I have been syncing it to Outlook data on Win XP for several years now. Before that, in the Win2k days, I had Win CE devices that I synced up. With Vista I couldn't get the Outlook data to sync up...at first. After fighting with it for a while, I finally figured it out.

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Posted on August 22, 2007 4:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

IDEA with Tomcat 6 Integration

August 15, 2007

If you like running Tomcat from within IDEA and you want to be a Tomcat version 6, you need to stick with Tomcat 6.0.10 for a while. Any later version causes this complaint to come up when you launch Tomcat: "Error running Tomcat6: Cannot find configuration of jsp built-in servlet in C:\Users\greg\.IntelliJIdea60\system\tomcat_Unnamed_7dbqbe5b1\web.xml". I noticed just the other day that Tomcat 6.0.14 came out and I confirmed that this version has the problem too.

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Vista Guinea Pig

July 27, 2007

I just bought myself a Lenovo desktop machine for my home office, and it came with Vista Business. This is the first time I've submitted myself to being a guinea pig for a new, pre-service-pack OS. Here are a few reactions, gripes and maybe even some left-handed praises.

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Posted on July 27, 2007 6:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)