The Java software development kit documentation can be downloaded from java.sun.com, in the form of a ZIP file with tens of thousands of linked HTML file. This seems like an ideal canonical form for this documentation, but it is inconvenient to use, and inconvenient to have so many files sitting around.
If your development machine runs […]
I’ve used PuTTY for years - it’s by far the best SSH client for Windows that I have seen. There are commercial ones with more features, but they generally offer a much more bloated user experience. PuTTY has a minimalist window (no button, no toolbars, etc.) with a working SSH client in it.
I’ve used Cygwin […]
A few hours ago I started with a fresh Windows XP Home install for a computer for my family.
I’m still going. I have lost count of how many times I have had to reboot the machine then get a new round of updates to install. It is ludicrous.
Modern Linux distributions are far superior to this. […]
I just read today (wow, where have I been?) about the issue with Win32 binaries under the (delayed) Vista version of Windows - most notably, that Win32 binaries will need to be signed, otherwise they will provide a, er, “downlevel” user experience. A proposed workaround is to code to another runtime environment (.NET, Java, […]
For a project at Oasis Digital, we need to show the end user a graphical representation of a graph (in the “graph theory” sense of the word). The application is written in Delphi, and in looking around I didn’t find any native Delphi components for doing that.
I did find GraphViz, and a COM Wrapper for […]
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