I happened on the Introduction announcement for Ubiquity this morning and found it to be an awesome idea. There is a video with usage examples on the announcement page that will give you the whole scoop.

I remember as a young lad thinking how cool the new Macintosh computers were and whenever we were in a store that had one, I would play with MacPaint, which was always up on the demos because back then it was about all you could do with a Mac (exaggeration but not much). Fast forward, wow 20-something years later and I need to edit a photo on the Mac I use at work… mmmm… yeah, not so much.

In an interesting display of how cosmopolitan the Dallas / Fort Worth area is… my wife and I met Victoria Njau, who is the current Miss Kenya (a good blog about her). We were out looking at apartments and she was a leasing agent for one of properties we visited. My wife had mentioned in passing about how pretty she was and that she should be a model, and very shyly she mentioned that she was the current Miss Kenya.

I was introduced to a very useful site recently, Drop.io, that allows you to upload files and share them with other users in a quick and easy, account free manner. The interface is simple, you create a drop name, or use the random one provided. Select the files you want to upload and give it a password and expiration date. You can provide an admin password for later modification if you want to… then you are done. Send the url and the password with your cohorts and life is good.

In my over-long running thread about Finding Matching Ints (initial posting), I have have come across another solution from a php developer that I recently interviewed… in php.

function findInts($array){
    $out = Array();
    foreach($array as $num){
        if(array_exist($out,$num){
            return $num;
        }
        array_push($num);
    }
}

For many years, I felt that there was nothing “regular” about Regular Expressions, but lately I have been warming up to them a bit. The QuickRex Eclipse plug-in has really helped make them easier to manage, but that’s not what this post is about.

As I mentioned before, I now use a Mac at work and PC everywhere else, which has become a source of much frustration… now I am dysfunctional with the shortcut keys on both systems. I am sure that the key mappings defined for the Mac have been ergonomically proven in test labs, blessed by yogis and spat on by saki-drinking blind virgin Okinawans nuns, but I have used a PC keyboard for years and they don’t feel right to me… so I changed them on the Mac.

Tables using only CSS… not really all that much work, but I am not really sure why it makes so much difference. Basically you have a table structure in DIV tags,

<div class='table'>
    <div class='row'>
        <div class='cell'>Cell A</div>
        <div class='cell'>Cell B</div>
    </div>
    <div class='row'>
        <div class='cell'>Cell C</div>
        <div class='cell'>Cell D</div>
    </div>
</div>

then you create styles for the classes as follows:

.table {display:table;}
.row {display:table-row;}

A few years ago, I wrote a blog entry about Embedding Jetty in Spring. It became quite popular, at least in relation to other pages on my site. Unfortunately, as I noted in the header of that posting, it has become a bit out-dated as newer versions of Jetty have been released. Well, with a little prodding via emails and a handful of free time, I have come up with an updated version for Jetty 6.1.11 and Spring 2.5.5 that requires no additional helper-classes.

Well, the next phase of our move to DFW has been completed. Last weekend, we loaded all our stuff into a moving truck and drove it from Tucson to Dallas… and what a misadventure that was…