// archives

Archive for March, 2009

Trying out XMind

By Winston ⋅ March 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Trying out XMind again.  Looks about the same, and I’m not that impressed with the mind-mapping UI itself, but the application shell based on Eclipse RCP is pretty slick.  The whole thing makes me want to get back into MindTree (I need to think of a new name, too).  Maybe once things settle down.  The [...]

JAD vanished from the internet

By Winston ⋅ March 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I recently started doing Java development again and went off looking for the trusty Jad compiler, which I planned on using with the JadClipse so that I could browse straight into any class.  Not for the purpose of cribbing someone else’s code, but for faster, better comprehension of how to use other libraries.  In .NET I [...]

Apple download failures are ruining my life

By Winston ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to update my iPhone to the new 2.2.1 firmware, but the download always failed.  Same with downloading a new version iTunes.  Tried and tried and tried.
Then today I got fed up, tracked down the url for manually downloading it (this forum thread is a good source).  But [...]

Git

By Winston ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m really enjoying using Git.

Easy Progress Reporting in Powershell

By Winston ⋅ March 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I decided to write a function to make it easier to report progress in PowerShell.
The Problem
You may be familiar with Write-Progress, but if you’re like me, you probably don’t use it that often, partly because  you don’t use it that often, so whenever you want to it means you have to go look up the help [...]

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