Are you kidding me?!!!!!
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008How to turn a for loop into a while loop. AWESOME!
for(; rSet.next(); cityList.add(rSet.getString(1)))
log.debug(”<OracleCountryDAO><getCities> entering the rSet while loop”);
Engineering, QA, IT
Keyboard Shortcuts
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I love keyboard shortcuts! Who wants to tediously reach all the way over to the mouse, just to do something that could be done by pressing a key combination? Here are a few of my favorites, reply with some of yours.
Internet Browsing:
- Alt + d (or) F6 = Place your cursor in the address bar of the browser.
- Alt + <- (left arrow) = Go back one page.
- Alt + -> (right arrow) = Go forward one page.
- Ctrl + w = Close the current tab, or if no tabs are open, close the browser.
- Ctrl + t = Open a new tab.
General Use:
- Ctrl + z = Undo the last action. (I use this constantly)
- Ctrl + y = Redo the action that you undid.
- Ctrl + Shift + Esc = Open the Windows Task Manager directly, bypassing the annoyance of having to Ctrl + Alt + Delete first.
- Alt + F4 = Close the current window/program.
- Ctrl + c = Copy the selected item.
- Ctrl + x = Cut the selected text.
- Ctrl + v = Paste the copied item.
Most of the listed commands are universal (in that they work for Windows, Linux, and Mac) but some are OS specific.
The Perils of Copying Code from the Web
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Mail Goggles
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008I am not sure if April came early or someone is just having fun but this is a great idea. Goggles for Google Mail:
When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?
Read the details on the Official Google Blog.
Windows on EC2!
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Finally Windows developers will have the same opportunity that the Open Source side has had for quite some time – the ability to deploy their beloved applications to the Cloud. I received this email today:
Dear Amazon Web Services Developer,
We are excited to let you know that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server starting later this Fall. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating system. In addition, you will be able to use SQL Server as another option within Amazon EC2 for running relational databases.
Amazon EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server provides an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET web sites, high performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions, and many other Windows-based applications. By choosing Amazon EC2 as the deployment environment for your Windows-based applications, you will be able to take advantage of Amazons proven scalability and reliability, as well as the cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model offered by Amazon Web Services.
Our goal is to support any and all of the programming models, operating systems and database servers that you need for building applications on our cloud computing platform. The ability to run a Windows environment within Amazon EC2 has been one of our most requested features, and we are excited to be able to provide this capability. We are currently operating a private beta of Amazon EC2 running Windows Server and SQL Server. Please go to aws.amazon.com/windows if you are interested in being notified later this Fall when the offering is released broadly.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team
It will be interesting to see what the pricing model looks like.
