Comment +1 for Code Complete (Score 1) 446
Read Code Complete. Then practice the principles outlined in it everyday on every project, and you will no longer be a hacker.
Convert a SIM To a MicroSIM, With a Meat Cleaver 302
An anonymous reader writes "This morning, my shiny new iPad 3G 64GB arrived from the USA! The only problem was, it had an AT&T MicroSIM and as yet there is no such thing in the UK. So what's the solution? Get a chopping board, a meat cleaver, and a pair of scissors — simples!"
Comment Redmine or Basecamp (Score 3, Informative) 119
Redmine is a free open source project. It can be very difficult to get up an running.
37Signal has a awesome product line to check out. It's all hosted, so no setup is required. http://37signals.com/
Comment Drupal or Joomla (Score 1) 286
Put Drupal or Joomla up there. They're a full blown content management system that are simple to use. You can start with basically nothing up there, and if you decide you want to do something later, you can grow it as needed. I like Drupal, but Joomla is supposedly a little easier.
Comment Netbeans (Score 1) 1055
Netbeans is free and easy to install and works great. It supports multiple languages. Great online community e.g. support, documentation, tutorials, etc. It freakin' works.
Everything about getting Eclipse up and running sucks. Installation, getting plugins, documentation, etc. If you can get Eclipse up and running it's pretty good, but I still like Netbeans better.
Al-Qaeda Used Basic Codes, Calling Cards, Hotmail 285
jd writes "In startling revelations, convicted terrorist Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri admitted that Al Qaeda used public telephones, pre-paid calling cards, search engines and Hotmail. Al-Marri 'used a '10-code' to protect the [phone] numbers — subtracting the actual digits in the phone numbers from 10 to arrive at a coded number.' The real story behind all this is that the terrorists weren't using sophisticated methods to avoid detection or monitoring — which tells us just how crappy SIGINT really is right now. If the NSA needs to wiretap the whole of the US because they can't break into a Hotmail account, you know they've got problems. FindLaw has a copy of al-Marri's plea agreement (the tech-related information begins on page 12), and the LA Times has further details on his case."
Comment Is this good? (Score 1) 906
I have no experience with Oracle. I'm relatively new to world of open-source software. I love Netbeans and MySQL. I do worry about these two awesome products, specifically MySQL. What good is a free, open-source database to Oracle, of all companies? I worry that developement of MySQL and Netebeans will grind to a halt. I hope not. Netbeans has really become awesome in the last few years. I love VirtualBox, too, but I'm sure Oracle could benefit from it. I really hope they don't start charging for these products.
