I use CUPS-PDF to print all documents as PDF files. Mac OS X allows user to save documents as PDF without additional software, but I prefer to use CUPS-PDF instead. Reasons for choosing CUPS-PDF: I’m too lazy to choose ‘Save as PDF’ from print dialog You can also share this CUPS-PDF with virtual machines so [...]
Google Web Toolkit team used Jake2, Google Web Toolkit, WebGL and WebSocket to run Quake 2 on web browsers. The project has comprehensive instructions on how you can get started, but I found out that some instructions are missing so it was not possible to build and play Quake 2 immediately. I hope this post [...]
I have been using LaunchBar since version 3 (as of now, version 5 RC4) and one of the features I like is being able to run search from its simple interface. After activating LaunchBar (with simple Control-Space key combination), I enter ‘goog’ (short for Google search) and press Enter key. Type your search terms and [...]
I finally received a new workstation (Dell Precision T3500) at work. My old one from two years ago (Another Dell machine, running dual Pentium 4 3.0GHz with 4GB RAM) builds my project in 12 minutes from scratch (Visual Studio 2005 project containing 82 sub-projects). My colleague’s workstation builds it in less than 3 minutes. I [...]
I spent some time watching Becoming Productive in Xcode (by Mike Clark) from The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I have used Xcode (and I am still learning Cocoa) but I am still a Xcode beginner (I use code completion and that’s it). After checking out the free sampler video, I thought it might be worth US$10 to [...]
I am looking into using Apache ActiveMQ for my work. Since I have never used it before, I thought I might try installing it and play with it a bit on my MacBook Pro. Below describes my experience on installing Apache ActiveMQ from source. Before you get started and follow steps below (which takes some [...]