Bluetooth headphones have become increasingly popular in the past few years due to their ease of use and convenience. Sony headphones are not only commonly used but are also considered to be one of the better-quality headphones in the market. After you purchase them, you have to learn how to connect Sony Bluetooth headphones. You […]

Today we started hacking some Apache rewrite rules to make some URLs a little more friendly. All of the URLs we are rewriting are entry points for our application, which in the WO world means direct actions. All of them contain queries parts. These are the arguments in a URL, like http://domain.com/something?arg=value&anotherArg=anotherValue. Well, everything was

There are not many things I miss from Mac OS 9. But there’s one that was really useful: the ability to test a hard drive surface. OS 9 disk formatter (I don’t even recall it’s name) had a “Test Disk” option that would perform a surface scan of the selected hard drive. That was awsome

(nice title, isn’t it?) 😉 Although AJAX techniques are now widespread among the web-developers community, there’s still something that can’t be done using pure AJAX techiques (whatever that means): file uploads. There’s no way to grab a file using JavaScript and send it to the server using an asynchronous request. I guess the main reason

I finally moved to an Intel machine. Despite the dramatic speed improvement in everything Java-related, namely Eclipse, there’s another big advantage: being able to run IE on Windows using a virtual machine. Unfortunately, that’s something every web developer must do to ensure his or her application will work on the most used (and crappy) browser

Or How I learned to stop worrying and lock the EOObjectStoreCoordinator So those of you who read the WebObjects Developer mailing list know I’m a bit obsessed about concurrency issues. Namely concurrent data write operations, specially when you have lots of derived data on the database due to performance issues. A few months ago, I

This was it. I spent the weekend migrating GAEL‘s Xserve to Leopard Server. It all went well, although some more or less serious issues poped up. Our server is used mainly for hosting web content and applications (php, perl, and of course, WebObjects). It also handles some Subversion repositories and some other minor stuff. I

Alphabet Inc. is not pleased with Google Fiber’s performance, and has ordered cost-cutting measures to be enforced. Google Fiber aims to deliver high-speed Internet by laying down fiber optic cables to provide the kind of Internet speeds it wants to deliver. The project has rolled out very slowly, and only seven metropolitan areas are currently

I use Retrospect to backup most of the machines at GAEL. You may wonder why do I use a commercial tool that still shows it’s OS 9 roots, instead of open source alternatives. Well, Retrospect has some cool advantages (namely the very good support of laptops that may be disconnected abruptely from the network while