Month: July 2011
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Adium not working in Mac OS X Lion
cocoaforge • View topic – Adium not working in Lion Well, some corners work, some don’t. It doesn’t function with (GTalk and) Skype so far. Update 2011-08-01: Well, my GTalk problem was entirely my own problem, and it was entirely caused by myself. Rather embarrassing.
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the latest Woody Allen movie: Midnight in Paris (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011) More at en.wikipedia.org. I would really love to see this soon – I would very much like to see this on Friday, 29th – but I will only be returning to Berlin late from a course in Frankfurt.
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Mac OS X Lion: from now on you can move more than one file to a different file system
wow, that took a while!
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JasperReports in Berlin | Google Groups
JasperReports in Berlin | Google Groups I hope we can start a lot of activity there and esp. within Berlin. Of course I don’t mind, if you contact me directly. I am looking forward to challenging projects.
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Spaces in Lion – MacRumors Forums
Spaces in Lion – MacRumors Forums They removed the Spaces Grid for Lion, that’s crappy. It must come back very soon. For the time being “absolute positioning to a space” with the right keyboard shortcut and “threefinger swiping” up and down will help a little.
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good bye, Snow Leopard! very welcome, Lion!
Just installing … Update: It started with saying “33 minutes …”, but these 33 minutes do not pass as fast as on my wrist watch. Update: The desktop started with eyecandy: no longer that well-known starfield, but a rather more modest background. Update: In Snow Leopard I had my “desktops” arranged in 4×4 matrix, that’s…
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shell programming: “for” loops vs. “while” loops and scope of variables created within loop bodies
Variables, that you create (by assignment) within loop bodies, are well visible outside the loop body. This is valid for both kinds of loop. CAVEAT: If the “while” loop reads from a pipe, the “while” loop is executed within a subshell, i.e. the scope of the variables within the loop ends with the loop. Example:…
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SQL: Limiting the Number of Rows Returned
SQL Cookbook – O’Reilly Media Chapter 1 Retrieving Records: Limiting the Number of Rows Returned. Problem You want to limit the number of rows returned in your query. You are not concerned with the order; any n rows will do. Solution Use the built-in function provided by your database to control the number of rows…