Author: Cory Foy

From http://idiacomputing.com/moin/FortuneCookies: Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And…

Tomorrow’s CharJUG presentation is on JUnit. JUnit, for those of you who are not aware, is a unit-testing framework for Java. (Well, it is officially labeled as a regression-testing framework, but you do that through Unit Tests). It is part of the xUnit family of Unit Testing frameworks, where you replace the x with some…

I was in Sam Ash on Friday (trying to pick up one of these) chatting with one of the guys in Pro Audio. He found out I do software development, and said that he had asked over 20 different people how he can get a simple printout of all the files in a directory, including…

So, I’ve got this Panasonic MiniDV camera (in PAL format – not NTSC) that I’ve had. It’s been an awesome camera, but I’m looking to get an 8-track recorder for some of my music stuff, so it’s for sale. I’ve got it up on Ebay but if someone is willing to trade an 8-track Tascam…

Back from Florida. It was a good trip – though we forgot just how hot it is down there in the summer. I got to spend 8 hours cooking barbecue chickens for my old fire department’s Fourth of July parade – it was a great time, and I’ll talk some more about that later. But…

Welp, it’s that time of year again. Every year my wife and I head back down to Tampa, FL where all of our family is at, and spend the week running around from house to house to make sure we see everyone. This year is a special treat because we have *4* events to be…

I recently stumbled across a blog called Anonymous Lawyer that is supposed to be the fictional blog of a lawyer in a large law firm. Good reading. But one of his/her posts in particular hit very close to home. How many times have you been told by your company, or by a client, that you…

Over the past week, I’ve been working on updating the packages on my home machine. I’m running Gentoo, and have for the most part ignored emerge -u world until this week. I finally took the plunge to actually read about it, and after fixing some blocking packages (Yes, you can emerge -C mozilla-thunderbird without it…

A recent post on the Joel on Software boards asked a time-old question, “Need to cram for Java interview, what will they ask?“ The response? Perhaps one of the best quotes ever, coming from one BenjiSmith: Well, they might ask you about the Java programming language. In which case, you’ll probably be screwed. I hope…

The latest project I am working on introduced me to the wonderful world of Timberline. This is one of the few times when I truly wish the customer we’re building this for would have used Access. Really! But, Timberline (an accounting package that sits on top of Pervasive SQL which sits on top of Btrieve)…