I've had other issues with NetBeans not working properly at lower levels under OpenJDK. The best workaround I've seen for the GTK+ LaF sucking is to not use it. Activating the Nimus LaF is pretty easy and it provides a much more tolerable work environment, even if it doesn't fit the colour scheme of your desktop environment quite as nicely.

I know when running under Linux, you've got to use the Sun/Oracle-provided JDK. OpenJDK doesn't play nice with NetBeans.

I have programmed with dojo several years and if you go to www.dojocampus.org you have quite a good documentation outside of that, there are several really good books.

Or you could just use jQuery, which has good official documentation, a good community, and is faster to boot.

I think Twitter is an interesting case because it's already been hugely popular once before, and is now bucking off the traditional social trend of being popular, fading, and dying by adding at least one more wave” of success between the fading and dying stages.

...Win+D...

If you're on Windows 7, you should check out what happens when you hit Win+Down twice (and maybe the other arrow keys while you're at it, if that one tickles your fancy). If Win+D is a nuclear bomb, Win+Down is a sniper rifle.

I'm probably one of the few people that actually use the menu key, too.

Yes. Yes, you are. ;)

I also control my media player through global key combinations involving Super. I guess the fact I forgot about them when listing uses of Super shows how much of an automatic response they are.

...so that guys like you don't know the difference.

Then please explain: in implementation (on either platform), what is the functional difference between Enter and Return?

the windows key is useless, no one really uses it.

Unless you're 1) on Windows and 2) like saving time. In my case, Win+E and Win+R get used multiple times per hour, Win+L gets used every time I leave my desk, and Win+Pause is one of the first things I hit when I start work on someone else's computer.

Also, one thing that hasn't been brought up yet (that I've seen) is the misbehaving Home and End keys. They're supposed to move the input cursor to the beginning and end of the current line of input, not... whatever it is they do under OS X – I've never managed to figure out exactly what that is.

...but completely unplayable. IMHO, platformers are platformers because the game mechanics require you to be able to see in all directions at once, not just one. While this is shiny (and, if I'm not mistaken, something of a jab at modern FPSes with the achievement-like scoring system), it's just another gameplay style that I pray never gets implemented.

Hi – I'm the education, right here. I worked as a tech in a mom-and-pop service shop for a bit over two years. People would come in with spyware-infested machines, and rogue antimalware products were often involved. They'd ask why it happened, and we'd explain. And they'd have questions, and we'd explain. And they'd act like they understood, and thank us, pay their bill, and head on their way.

Several times, they came back in again with more of the same problems a few months down the road.

People don't want to have to think, and common sense security – the best, most effective kind of security – requires conscious thought.

And actually, I'd say the situation is somewhat better with older people. If you can make them understand (analogies work best, I find) what's being dealt with, they're much more likely to latch on and do (or not do) what you tell them to.

The problem with a plain vanilla PostgreSQL/PHP is that it doesn't scale well, especially when you're talking about more than just a website. Sure, you can throw more hardware at the problem, but there comes a point where it's more cost-effective to use different backend technology to do the data processing even if you're still using traditional web scripting (Perl, PHP, or even Python or Ruby) for the frontend.

A weekly-updated Git repository of Slashdot's backend is available under the monicker Slashcode.

...why the GTalk client doesn't support it...

Because Google hasn't properly updated the Google Talk client in years and is trying to phase it out in favour of Gmail's chat client.

Give me free beer and I'll give you free speech.

I prefer Debian (stable) on my servers. While Ubuntu may have more up-to-date packages, I generally find the almost guaranteed stability of Debian to be more worth it. With Debian, I can install my server, configure automatic updates, and expect it not to break anything by itself while I get on with life and developing whatever the server's supposed to be running. I don't feel that safe with any other distro.

The only problem is, they'd have to agree to the GPL.

They already did. Why else do you think the WRT54GL and WRT160NL exist?