Monthly Archives: June 2008

Map Letter Drives

By TechKnow | June 11, 2008

In Windows you can map a network or local disk directory to a letter drive. I have found that I needed to do this recently because Windows doesn’t handle well directory names with spaces in them, even though the recommended folder for applications is C:\Program Files! When writing scripts that reference a directory path with [...]

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Eclipse Tool Tip #7: Resource and Class Type Find

By TechKnow | June 6, 2008

It is hard to keep track of all class files you may need to edit in large project, much less the package those classes reside in. When I need to lookup and inspect a class I use the Ctrl+Shirt+T to open the Open Type dialog. This dialog allows you to enter the class name, or [...]

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Get That Raise

By TechKnow | June 1, 2008

I was recently asked for a few tips for negotiate a pay raise. There is not much to asking for a raise, the key is to ask at the right time. Ask for a raise when the company is on a high note, an up swing such as having recently closing a big deal or [...]

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MagLev

By TechKnow | June 1, 2008

The big hype and spin cycle out of RailsConf this year is the news of a new Ruby implementation, MagLev. MagLev is only the nth implementation of Ruby to make waves, after JRuby, Rubinius, and IronRuby. MagLev is based and powered by a SmallTalk VM from GemStone. Avi Bryant described as a ‘full stack Ruby [...]

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