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Say Goodnight Gracie
A pretty major event occurred at RIT on Monday, but hardly anyone probably noticed. It wasn’t marked by any sort of fanfare or celebration, just a simple email that popped up on my screen saying “Mike Young has completed a PCR.” And with that the “Grace” web server was retired. Anyone who’s spent any time […]
I’m a Terrible Bloggger
I’m looking at my blog and realizing that I haven’t posted anything since August. I am terrible about this whole blogging thing—every time I get going and I think I’m going to start blogging semi-religiously I stop after one or two posts. A lot has changed since my last post. The most significant thing probably […]
Improving Eclipse Performance in OS X
I use various flavors of the Eclipse IDE for almost all of my programming these days, so when I got my new MacBook Pro laptop it was one of the first things that I installed. And what a disappointment that was. While I’m used to Java apps being slow, since getting Core 2 Duo Windows […]
I Can Has Macintosh
After more than eight years of wanting a Mac for my office I finally got one last week. And what a nice one it is…a 17″ MacBook Pro laptop with a 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4Gb of RAM, and a 250Gb hard drive. This thing flies, and the display quality is absolutely amazing. […]
Chainable YUI?
Yahoo! released a preview of the Yahoo User Interface library version 3.0 yesterday. While I haven’t yet delved into the new package myself, it looks as though the new YUI will follow on the footsteps on other JavaScript packages like jQuery instead of following its own namespaced model. The preview code in the announcement on […]