For a long time I’ve avoided getting into any “serious” front-end development work… by which I mean, of course, JavaS... Continue reading

I’ve had a hard time finding a list of the Marvel movies, TV shows, and one-shots in release order (my baseline for p... Continue reading

This post demonstrates performing a “rebase” on your Mercurial repository using TortoiseHg. Rebasing your commits, in... Continue reading

I’ve started tinkering with GitHub Pages and Jekyll, partially motivated by a recent post by Phil Haack.Unfortunately... Continue reading

Eclipse is a tremendous IDE… except when it’s not. One area I’ve found less than intuitive has been creating a single... Continue reading

This has been annoying me for ages. Here’s the rather hidden means Facebook provides to block apps from sending notif... Continue reading

I hate hate hate (did I say hate?) staring at black-on-white text on a monitor. When your whole day is spent in front... Continue reading

First things first, major appreciation goes out to Lars Vogel for his incredibly helpful tutorial on Android developm... Continue reading

This is a collection of links to various coding katas I’ve run across. I haven’t tried all of them, but probably will... Continue reading

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, and found that Flash was no longer installed or working. Fixed it by (... Continue reading

Big thanks to Michael Otto for creating an Ubuntu Indicator Panel applet! It has a drop-down menu that lets you direc... Continue reading

I found these icons for Dropbox that match the Ubuntu mono dark (ambiance) theme. The link includes instructions for... Continue reading

Surprisingly, I’ve never done this before, but I needed to enable DVD playback on my wife’s new netbook which she use... Continue reading

When installing Ubuntu on my wife’s new netbook, the installation crashed mid-way through… after it reworked the part... Continue reading

The Ubuntu 10.10 install on my new laptop turns on the Bluetooth adapter by default, which is a minor battery drain. ... Continue reading

I set up my main desktop computer to enable remote access to my desktop (System -> Preferences -> Remote Deskto... Continue reading

I’ve set up a Windows XP virtual machine in VirtualBox to do .NET development. I want my work to be backed up by my ... Continue reading

I have a partition on a second internal hard drive that I use for media storage. Ubuntu is smart enough to detect it... Continue reading

When you send a VirtualBox client into fullscreen mode Host + F, there’s a small ‘Mini Menu’ bar pinned to the bottom... Continue reading

I’ve just finished created a new WinXP VM in which I plan to do some .NET development. Since I was getting the syste... Continue reading

I’ve put off installing online backup software for ages. It’s the kind of thing that sits on your TODO list, nagging... Continue reading

VirtualBox doesn’t make it easy to clone/copy the configured virtual machines and their hard drive image files. To c... Continue reading

Dropbox recently released a new 1.0 client for all platforms with several new features. Particularly, the selective f... Continue reading

I prefer the Deluge bit-torrent client over Ubuntu’s default of Transmission, but it’s always been a minor annoyance ... Continue reading

After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.4 to Ubuntu 10.10, I found that the Android ADT plug-in was not showing up in Eclipse ... Continue reading

I’ve been annoyed by the Banshee notification area icon in Ubuntu for a while now. I’ve changed Ubuntu to use the da... Continue reading

I’ve been having trouble with a couple Java programs in Ubuntu, so I’m attempting to switch the Java Runtime Environm... Continue reading

I’m giving Android development another shot, and had to install Eclipse and the Android Development Tools again. Note... Continue reading

Here is a Windows batch script to append a passed line of text to the specified file (prepending the text with a date... Continue reading

Since switching to Ubuntu as my primary OS, I’ve been lax in setting up an automatic backup of important files. I fi... Continue reading

To get set up for Android App development, I’m following the instructions from Google here.I installed Eclipse throug... Continue reading

Here’s something I’ve wanted to do for ages in Windows: starting Explorer in a specific directory from a shortcut. T... Continue reading

Found this link about creating a shortcut to launch a VirtualBox machine directly without having to first load the Vi... Continue reading

Just discovered a website called the Bigisi Project, which provides some really high-quality themes for Gnome/Ubuntu.... Continue reading

After mucking around with Amarok for about half an hour, I remembered that by default, Ubuntu doesn’t include support... Continue reading

Found this article with a list of Ten useful Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts. This article has even more! Nice. Continue reading

Got XBMC installed in Ubuntu Jaunty NBR (inside VirtualBox). Instructions from the XMBC folks are here.Performance in... Continue reading

In preparation for setting up our soon-to-arrive (hopefully) new nettop as a home theater PC, I’m experimenting with ... Continue reading

ClipX is a handy little tool I’ve been using for a while now. It’s a clipboard history manager for Windows XP, which... Continue reading

Since it will take a while to migrate over to an “All Ubuntu All the Time” (well, almost) setup, I needed a way to ke... Continue reading

I had a whole post outlined with all the steps I went through to manually install VirtualBox 3.0 in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunt... Continue reading

I recently received my new 1TB hard drive (more storage than I’ve ever had!). I’m hoping to switch to Ubuntu as my m... Continue reading

I’m planning on using this blog primarily as a record for my own future reference: links/tools I find interesting, st... Continue reading