To Hell in a Handbasket

A conversation between @cwgabriel from Penny Arcade and @pvponline from PVP.

Brought a tear to my eye after @wilw got involved.

I installed Google Chrome Frame about a month ago, and I am very impressed with how responsive and quick Internet Explorer is with JavaScript intensive web pages now.  If you use a lot of JavaScript intensive websites, e.g., Facebook, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, etc., you will notice a significant improvement in performance when using IE with the Chome plug-in.

I was also interested to find out that the new Google Wave application only works with IE if you have the plug-in installed.

The plug-in works in Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, and requires you to have Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.

I was looking for a version of PyXML for Python 2.5 and had some difficulty due to the project being unmaintained.  I was able to find someone that compiled PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.5.  You can find it here.

When Oracle first announced that they were acquiring BEA, the first thought that went through my head wasn’t “I wonder if Oracle AS will be dropped in favor of WebLogic.”; it was “Oh great! Now I won’t be able to find shit on the WebLogic forums too.”

It’s been several months since the acquisition, but today I got fed up.  BEA used to have a website, dev2dev.bea.com, where they would post clever tips, tricks, etc. about the WebLogic platform.  I would have thought that Oracle would have kept all of this “useful” content alive after the website consolidation, but I was wrong.  It wasn’t bad enough they killed the forums at BEA, which has since caused all Google searches to come up with a plethora of dead links since the BEA URLs no longer exist.  Links from other forums to BEA listings are now worthless as well.

But hey, I can always go over to the forums at Oracle’s website and search there right?  One would think that was a logical solution, that is until they found out the honest truth:  Oracle’s search engine is powered by the Total Perspective Vortex.  At least that is what it feel’s like each time I attempt to find any God-damned thing on their site.

All I wanted was the article about the Thread Dump Analyser (TDan) tool that was written a while back.  It’s the best tool out there IMHO for performing thread dump analysis and being able to represent the output in a visual way.  It’s a good thing I keep a backup copy of the tool available.

Good Night.

Just noticed today that Google Calendar now has built in sports schedules so that you can be sure you never miss out on a game.  Pretty sweet feature for the sports fanatics out there.

Pretty neat application that just went public.  In was in beta for several weeks and is a nice replacement for Microsoft Visio if you need to share and collaborate on a diagram with remote users.

http://creately.com

Drinking Diet Pepsi just paid off.  I just won a Rock Band 2 Bundle for the Wii from Pepsi.

We should be having some fun in 8-10 weeks.

Hey Digg,

1995 called and they want their stupid <frameset> tag back.  This site now blocks that hack attempt at marketing.  Thanks to Daring Fireball and Phil Nelson for the idea and plug-in to prevent the DiggBar from framing this site.

Here’s a good article on the whole matter.

If you use WordPress and would like the plug-in, click on Phil Nelson’s name above.

I replace the Sociable plug-in with the ShareThis plug-in from alexking.org.  I like this one better and it takes up less room.

Google Calendar now supports an offline mode using Google Gears.  Sweet.  This has been a much wanted feature on my end.  Look for the new Offline^beta link in the upper right next to your user name.  You can even make offline changes, and then sync them back when you go back online.  This feature is going to be very useful since my Zimbra Desktop tryout is quickly becoming an utter failure for a number of reasons, but I will save that rant for later.