Author Archives: Odd Christer Brovig
New training gear is inbound
Today I ordered a couple of items I look forward to getting in the mail. The first is a Gymboss which is a interval timer with vibration and sound. I plan to use it for doing tabatas. Thanks for the tip Thomas! The second item is a pair of mini bands from Iron Woody Fitness. [...]
Maven release prepare fails on svn complaining about a pom that already exists in the svn repository tag
The problem is with the svn client, at least version 1.5.1 and 1.5.2. The workaround is simply: svn up -r head Source: [Studio] Using the Maven Release Plugin
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Miktex/latex doesnt render text in pdfs properly
Symptom: When producing pdfs with latex (miktex distro) it uses bitmap fonts, resulting in text that it is not possible to either select or search. Solution: install the cm-super fonts with the miktex package manager (large package), or use the \usepackage{lmodern} command to use the lmodern fonts that are included with miktex. This post at [...]
Inspiration
When things suck.. just remember you’re probably better of anyways. Lesson to be learnt: whine less.
Trouble with Torrents (uTorrent) on Windows Vista with McAfee
My mother recently bought a shiny new dell with Windows Vista on it. I recently got my fingers on it, and it’s pretty darn alright. But I had one problem: starting uTorrent was causing the system to slow down and also drop http traffic… After consulting a friend we found out he had the same [...]
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New Media I’ve Enjoyed So Far This September
Music Zo� Keating I discovered a German artist called Zoë Keating the other day while watching a photo series(the ‘audio slide’) on New York Times that was about China and the consequences of the rapid industrialization. Make sure to turn on the sound. So far I’ve only listened to the music on her myspace page [...]
Lessons Learnt After Developing a Web Application – Coding
Yesterday I talked about how the project was executed in both the design and implementation phase. Today I’m ranting a bit more in detail about how we coded the thing in PHP (v5). Database Access Our Approach When coding started, we agreed on (or rather, I pushed the view) that we should use the DAO [...]
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Lessons Learnt After Developing a Web Application – Design and Implementation
This spring I have been doing some work on a web application, part of a deliverable in one of my courses (INF5270). We were a team of four writers/programmers/designers/whatever needed. The deadline was about an hour ago, and we delivered our system 3 hours before that for once. So, for personal reflection I thought I’d [...]
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Last Weeks Picks
There was a pillow fight in Toronto last week, and the picture of this pillow fighter caught my eye. Maybe I will give up my disdain for people with dreads someday too? For some reason I’ve always felt a bit of contempt for people who doesn’t wash their hair on a regular basis, although some [...]
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What I’m currently up to