The DigiStump ATTiny85 board is a really attractive bit of hardware. It’s cheap, it can be accessed via the on-board USB connector, and while it hasn’t got the advanced hardware features of its bigger kin, there are a lot of things you can do with its small number of ports, memory and features. I’ve got a list, in […]
Category: Bad Practices
Gnome Evolution is an Abomination and gnome-keyring should die in a fire!
Really. Between Evolution’s penchant for creating non-deletable – and defective – account associations and gnome-keyring’s useless pop-up dialogs, the whole thing almost makes Microsoft Windows seem attractive. Then again, gnome is, by and large, a slavish attempt to imitate many of Windows’ more obnoxious features. Like the Windows Registry. Honestly. People have been complaining about this stuff for […]
Writing files into a WAR – Another BAD IDEA
I’ve always recommended against this. For one thing, a WAR is a ZIP file and Java has no builtin support for updating ZIP files. A lot of people abuse the fact that many JEE servers unpack (explode) WARs into a directory such as Tomcat’s webapps directory. They then proceed to use the ServletContext getRealPath() method to translate a […]