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Use OS X for Conveniently Remembering Developer Info
Software developers, whether for desktop platforms, mobile devices, or web services, inherently need to use a lot of pieces of information as part of their daily routine.
These scraps might include IP addresses, server names, configuration strings, code snippets, and (I hate to bring this up considering the purpose of this article) passwords.
My typical approach used to be to store all of that in plain text files, since I can easily search for them using Spotlight, and it’s easy to create/edit them. The downside is that each time I need one, I need to open the text file, highlight the text, copy it, switch back to the application where I will use it, and paste the text. Sometimes I need multiple things from one text file, and sometimes I need multiple things from multiple files. It’s hard on the wrist! 
How to Get Tether Working with a Mac and a Fido BlackBerry Bold 9000
This is the configuration that worked for me.
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Cell Phone Plus Plus: the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000
I am a proud owner of a BlackBerry Bold 9000, one of Research In Motion‘s (RIM) finest products to date.
Featuring everything a modern cell phone is expected to have, such as quad-band 3G, a multi-megapixel camera, and Bluetooth, the 9000 does not stop there. It boasts Wi-Fi and a real, unassisted GPS receiver. Of course, being a descendant of RIM, its push email notification and data capabilities are far ahead of otherwise comparable phones.
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Thought: Counting Lines of Code
“when did I learn each programming language I know, and how many lines of code have I written in each?”
There are a lot of computer programming languages out there. There are so many that it is unlikely for a single developer to have come across them all, let alone be fluent in each. That being said, the more [computer] languages one knows the better, because they teach different approaches to common problems. For instance, Scheme has no “for” loop, and no “while” loop because of its adherence to pure functions. For some Java programmers that will seem impossible to get around, until in this case the notion of recursion comes to the rescue.
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Thought: Lane Changing & Greedy Algorithms
“greedy algorithms do not appear capable of producing optimal lane changes”
It’s fairly likely every driver has at some point cared about maximizing their speed on the road (to some limit haha), and that implies they care about minimizing delays caused by traffic. In this universe at least, this means changing lanes. The recurring problem is selecting the best lane at a given time.
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TASM 5 Intel 8086 Turbo Assembler Download
A current version of TASM (Turbo Assembler) is rather hard to come by on the Web. Below is a .zip file you can download that is ready-to-go with TASM 5. I promise it worked for me for a whole semester, and I never had complaints about it.
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Late 2008 15-Inch Unibody MacBook Pro Battery Life
After 300 loadcycles, the battery in an early unibody MacBook Pro is kaput. Period, says Apple. They will not replace it if its capacity has fallen, because it is at the end of its intended lifespan. Three hundred is not all that great when compared to the newer unibodys which are supposed to withstand 1000 loadcycles, but is decent.
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Carleton University COMP3004 (ROSE-RT) Midterm
Carleton University
COMP3004 – Object-Oriented Software Engineering
Midterm from Fall 2009
Duration: 80 minutes
40 questions
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18 Months of Google Web History
Okay, today’s agenda is very simple – describe Web History using my account as an example, then give my personal opinion on its usefulness. Feel free to add yours in the comments.
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Fix for Opera 10 for Mac Freezing and High CPU Usage
Today, my copy of Opera 10 for Mac did a particular stunt for the third time I can remember. It freezes completely, uses in the neighbourhood of 50% of my CPU, and treats me to a repeat of this performance despite re-launching Opera and rebooting my Mac.
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