Just leave for 6 minutes and I’ll restart your Windows
I’ve been trying to transfer (temporarily) my life from linux/gentoo to Windows. This is hugely inspired by my new gadget, Nokia E61 and some other extreme-planning habits. Nokia/symbian still doesn’t have any reasonable way to sync calendar and notes with linux calendaring apps. So, welcome, dear windows xp service pack 2 :)
For a start, I’m never going to leave my dear Windows XP alone for more than 4 minutes:
Google Code Project Hosting - A replacement for Sourceforge?
engtech » Google Code Project Hosting - A replacement for Sourceforge?:
“There is a new entry into the open source software code repository space: Google Code - Project Hosting. This will hopefully be a long awaited kick in the pants for Sourceforge.net which hosts many, many projects but it can be difficult to find the cream of the crop, compare similar solutions and weed dead projects from the results.”
Have a mark, have a Trademark®
Protecting the name of your software is not that expensive as you might think.
Quoting http://www.patentpending.com/tmark.html
“Cost on a simple application is $875 including the $325 U.S. Patent Office fee. Your only other cost will occur about six to nine months later if we have to amend your application due to a request for an amendment or office action from the Patent Office. “
It remains unclear wether it’s a one state, U.S. or includes international registration. Any ideas?
The actual search for pricing of ® is inspired by Guy Kawasaki blog entry where he encourages and clears up issues surrounding trademarks in software development.
Protecting your trademark will always be a choice but if your stakes are high or just trying to get additional VC funding then protecting your trademark should be worth the money.
Think how valuable is Porsche®, literally :)
I’m not urging you to protect every .com domain you have :D
Btw, how many .com domains do YOU have?
Welcome back, dear word-wrap
At first sorry about those who have been checking for an update of this blog for a month. Regardless of this inactivity there have been quite a lot visitors. I’m glad to see that people like what I’m doing. Thank you!
There have been busy days and let’s admit - weather in Estonia has been shiny and warming :)
Amazing how much feedback and interest has eclipse word-wrap plugin generated. Before starting this project I didn’t realize how important wordwrapping is for so many of us. 
All(most) java developers have been wasting time on scrolling just to see all implemented interfaces. People are really using first versions of wordwrap and are eagerly waiting for a version that works properly with line numbers etc.
What they do not know is how complex this will be :)
No hope is lost and I’m still working to come up with a better version. New versions of plugin were delayed because I just couldn’t use any of the code from the first version. It used mechanisms that are poorly designed in eclipse (more specificly StyledText and it’s wrap flag). Or, let’s rephrase it for the sake of political correctness - StyledText is not meant to provide separate model for wrapped text. But different editor components need different kind of models (wrapped and unwrapped).
The other critical issue is with the performance. At least for now there are going to be two duplicated and synchronized models: wrapped and unwrapped. It would be ok to have wrapped model only for the visible part but eclipse viewer mechanism is not supporting this idea very well. Because of this and several other factors not mentioned here it’s not very likely that word wrap feature will be in eclipse core in near future (1-2 years?).
We decided to take a bit different approach than planned and I’m creating an installable plugin that is patching your eclipse platform text component. There will be an option for turning word wrap on and off. But more about it later when there is a package ready that is at least as usable as was the version 0.0.2.
As you see, I’ve added a new tab at the top of this blog - “Eclipse Word-Wrap”. It will have a better face and content as soon as the new version of plugin comes out - my promise. So far it’s a place for grabbing the eclipse update url.
Stay tuned and have fun, you word wrap freaks :)
No music, no e-books
I can’t buy e-books from amazon.com because I live outside of U.S.
I can’t buy monthly subscription to listen full-quality launchcast radio because I live outside of U.S. and U.K.
What is my option? CD-store?
I’m willing to pay $5/mo to listen as much and whatever I want. Fair enough, in average I would buy one $15 CD after every three months and distributing music online is so much easier (and less expensive). The amount of music I consume is not relevant.
Why do these services encourage non-U.S. customers to use illegal intellectual property? (they do)
What good do they get by prohibiting some countries from paying money while still allowing access to samples and low-quality music?
At least one can download oracle developer version for free in case you agree that you are not going to use it to create weapons of mass-destruction. Good enough :)
