by David Orriss Jr | Jun 20, 2009 | General
From the article:Does a $1.92 million award for sharing 24 songs cross the line into ‘grossly excessive’?Does a bear !@#$ in the woods?!!!?Analysis: $1.92M fine in music piracy case could hurt RIAA – iPod/iPhone – Macworld UK Share...
by David Orriss Jr | May 29, 2009 | General
For the last year my wife’s small-but-growing, word-of-mouth based business has been listed with YellowPages.com. The Networking Group my wife was a member of included in their ranks a sales rep who pushed that this would be an outstanding way to expand her...
by David Orriss Jr | May 2, 2009 | Android, Java, Telephony
In my last post I mentioned the android:minSdkVersion attribute to <uses-sdk> tag. As of SDK 1.5 the attribute values used correspond to the following API releases: minSdkVersionAPI Version 11.0 21.1 31.5 You can read more about all of this at...
by David Orriss Jr | May 2, 2009 | Android, Telephony
With the imminent release of SDK 1.5 (also known as “Cupcake”) for Android and T-Mobile G1 users a new rule is being enforced on the Market when you publish your application. The rule itself isn’t new – it’s existed since the 1.1 release...
by David Orriss Jr | Apr 1, 2009 | Java, Programming
I get asked this question.. a lot. David, any tips on how I can learn Java quickly? Or the more popular variant of it: David, how can I learn Java fast? Short answer: You can’t. There’s no shortcuts in learning software development in any language. Period....
by David Orriss Jr | Jan 7, 2009 | General, Operating Systems
Digital Simulacrum of John Lennon Promotes XO Laptops in OLPC Ad: Creepy as hell. See for yourself. Permanent link to ‘Digital Simulacrum of John Lennon Promotes XO Laptops in OLPC Ad’ (Via Daring Fireball.) Share...
by David Orriss Jr | Jul 22, 2008 | Mac OS X, Programming, Rails, Ruby
While I was playing with Rails 2.1 I decided to try the SQLite3 support that comes built into OS X instead of using MySQL. Upon trying to run a migrate command via rake I was created with: rake aborted! no such file to load — sqlite3/database After some digging...
by David Orriss Jr | Apr 29, 2008 | J2EE, Java, Mac OS X
This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java. For more details on this update, please visit this website:...
by David Orriss Jr | Apr 28, 2008 | Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP
Has this ever happened to you? A few weeks back I copied a bunch of my music files in a folder on my Mac to a backup drive. Then I erased the files from my Mac – after all, I just backed them up. Weeks go by and I rip some more music. I then – thinking of...
by David Orriss Jr | Apr 26, 2008 | J2EE, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems
Installing WebLogic 10 on a Mac in OS X isn’t supported by BEA. But it’s possible. Here’s how. Download WebLogic Server from the BEA website. In the Select OS drop-down, choose IBM AIX. This will give you the WebLogic generic package. Open the...
