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Comment on Google Notebook + Gears by MSDN Blog Postings » August OneNote Blog Round-up

MSDN Blog Postings » August OneNote Blog Round-up — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:42:15 +0000

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Comment on a Java puzzler by aviadbd

aviadbd — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:31:12 +0000

It’s not about a leap year or about any date in particular. It’s just the implementation of the parse method.

Try: 1957-04-33 Get: success: Fri May 03 00:00:00 IDT 1957

Try: 1957-05-40 Get: success: Sun Jun 09 00:00:00 IDT 1957

Try: 1957-20-40 Get: success: Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 IST 1958

Comment on a Java puzzler by ksjohnson

ksjohnson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:02:56 +0000

1957 is not a leapyear, so February 29 “rolls over” to March 1. Try 1960, that’s a leap year, so February 29 is valid.

Although that does seem like something that would throw an Exception, rather than quietly roll to the closest real date. But it’s probably for compatibility, like if someone’s birthday is on February 29. Doesn’t make sense for every application to have to say “Yes, it’s ok, roll to March 1.”

Comment on Groovy and Google Notebook by marcospereira

marcospereira — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:33:34 +0000

Nice post. Well, I think that you could groovify your code.

myFeed.entries.collect { googleService.getFeed(it.id.toURL(), Feed.class) }.each { /* process the feed*/ }

Kind Regards

Comment on Google Notebook + Gears by Carl

Carl — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:08:24 +0000

Cheers. I too would love google notebook with gear support. I ran into a similar situation switching to a Mac and having a PC at work (although you do know that in Office 2004 for the Mac there is a notebook function in microsoft word right?)
There is definitely some functionality I would love to see added to google notebook, and I think it will be a winner.

Comment on Upgrading to Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) by Anjan Bacchu

Anjan Bacchu — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:06:25 +0000

hi there,

can’t you do that before X starts ? If you an figure out which file stores the keyboard encoding file, then you can change before it goes to X. Alternately, you can use a LIVECD to edit that file.

BR,
~A

Comment on .Mac needs a facelift by Livette

Livette — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:56:44 +0000

Nice blog!

Comment on Hibernate Annotations by manjana

manjana — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:59:43 +0000

what i have seen at [http://uri.jteam.nl/?p=15] are tones of redundant annotations. did someone call it “_proper_ use of annotations” ? i really believe, that people who are new to hibernate annotations after taking look into that mess could scare themselvs to the death as for me i think that annotations are really good stuff if you are working on big databases with 200+ tables and _don’t_ need additionally support 200+ hbm’s. also as there were mentioned it helps when you want imagine how is your data model look like.

Comment on Cliff Stoll at Cray Research by vivek goel

vivek goel — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:52:49 +0000

java app : {http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/jason/index2.html}

Comment on .Mac needs a facelift by Brandon Werner

Brandon Werner — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:08:34 +0000

Worse than that is the restrictions on the amount of photos you can include on a website in iLife.

There is a lot in iLife that is nice, such as RSS feeds (photocasting) and essentially running your own small Flickr, but it lacks the social aspects that you mentioned.

I’m not certain what the future is of .Mac, but as long as it maintains my email and sync between my desktop and laptops, I’m ok with the fee.

It’s iLife and space issues however will probably stop new people from signing up.