I have learned why internationalization is abbreviated to ‘i18n’ thanks to Sun’s internationalization documentation. Now if only I knew why there’s so much more moo shu than pancakes…
Having a few days free this week, I finally got back in the shop for the first time this year. The same thing happened last year – I wasn’t in the shop for the first couple of months of the year. I’m not sure why this happens. It seems like the deep, dark months of [...]
So I tried to install DB2 8.2 on Fedora 8 recently. The install seemed to go smoothly, but then I couldn’t really do anything. Running any DB2 command (like ‘db2′) would give strange errors like:
SQL10007N Message “-1390″ could not be retrieved. Reason code: “3″.
and
./db2cc: line 26: db2javit: command not found
and
DB2JAVIT : RC = 9501DB2INSTANCE : [...]
Recently I was asked to look at building a web application that would run on Tomcat and use Active Directory for authentication. Since I didn’t exactly know how to do this, I thought it would be interesting to get an OSS LDAP server up and running on my Mac and try hooking into it with [...]
I’m still loving the 1.1.3 update for my iPhone. In the Maps application, I can now search for and find the destination that I want to go to, and then ask for directions from my current location. The app will approximate where I’m at and give me directions to where I want to go. I’ve [...]
Woohoo! I’m loving the 1.1.3 firmware update for the iPhone released yesterday. I’m not sure if my favorite feature is being able to rearrange the home page icons or being able to put a web clipping on the home page. The ability for Maps to show your approximate location is a pretty cool update as [...]
I’ve recently been playing around with Fedora 8 as an environment for installing WAS while I work on certification. There were a couple of glitches that stumped me for a day or so, but since then it’s been working great.
 The first problem was related to updates. I could run the launchpad application, but when I [...]
I finally got back into the shop this weekend after a few weekends off, and the sewing cabinet gained a knee apron as a result. Cutting the curve on the apron was not quite as difficult as I imagined it might be. My el-cheapo bandsaw managed to do a decent job of making the rough [...]
I’ve had my new Apple keyboard for just about a week now. It’s turned out to be as good as I had hoped it would be. Yay!
The keyboard seems a little low at first, but I haven’t had a real problem with that so far. The big win is that the keys provide much better [...]
This weekend sees the completion of both pedestals of the sewing cabinet. The edge banding on the horizontal pieces (top, bottom, and shelf) were glued in and trimmed flush. The edge banding on the back panel was also trimmed flush. The next step is to attach the back to the pedestals and start working on [...]