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A Datamapper is remixable example

July 29, 2010 – 6:10 pm

I struggled a bit this afternoon getting Datamapper’s dm-is-remixable plug-in as there aren’t too many posts out there and some are out of date. Hopefully this quick overview will spare you my pain
Many sites allow you to comment on blog posts, images, videos, status, etc. having one comments table with post_id, image_id, etc. [...]

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Getting Netbeans 6.9 to work on OS X 10.5.8

July 15, 2010 – 1:34 pm

After downloading and installing Netbeans 6.9 I launched the app. It bounced a couple of times in my dock as dreams of exciting new features danced in my head. Then… nothing, well not quite nothing, I received a message informing me that:
“Java 6 Standard Edition or newer required. Cannot run on older versions of Java [...]

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The post in which I run back to my iPhone

April 17, 2010 – 12:52 pm

Dear Leader Jobs,
I am sorry I wrote my last post. I’ve spent a couple of weeks with an Android Phone (Nexus One) and to paraphrase Llyod Bentsen “Android, I know the iPhone and you sir are no iPhone”. It’s not that Android is unusable, it’s just rough around the edges. Most of the tasks I [...]

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Bad Apple

April 9, 2010 – 5:51 pm

Update: It seems apple has approved Flex/Flash based apps made with OpenPlug’s ELIPS Studio have been approved. So Apple is just targeting Adobe. Don’t know if that makes it better or worse?
Apple has been doing some crazy stuff lately. I went with an iPhone over an Android phone because of my investment in Apple hardware [...]

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