Blog from the Loft

Do we need another build tool? Make is never ideal. Ant is interesting, especially because it is part of the Apache Jarkata project. Two interesting points from the Ant project —

The Ant 2 effort — Read the collected user requirement documentation — Simplicity and Understandabiilty are the two main goals of Ant 1 and 2 [...]

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Christmas
What does Christmas means to me? It means that I can take some time off, put away the work/biz/mgmt hats for a week or two, and do some catch up on hands on technology and reading.

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The stores are now selling almost all 80 minutes/700 mb CD-R blanks now, instead of the
standard 74 minutes/650mb blanks. I just discovered that my 2 years old Mitsumi 4801 drive
cannot burn CDR with the larger capacity. Luckily a visit to their website found new firmware. I downloaded and
updated the firmware on the drive. Now it [...]

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My eye glasses are 0.4 oz, my watch is 1.4 oz, my phone is 3.5 oz, two potato chips weight just about 0.1 oz…. We have a postage metering machine.

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Sat 8th. Finished writing all my Christmas cards. Back to organizing my Music CD. After a long search, I found a reasonable storage system for (large amount of) CDs from Boltz. These stainless steel, very high tech looking, storage shelves do the job, if you like the high tech look.

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came across this today — if a website presents a file for download dynamically,
some browser will use the end of the URL as the download file name. However,
you may be able to set a HTTP header as follows:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”filename.ext”

and see if the browser will use the named filename instead.

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