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Recovering lost IntelliJ IDEA shelved changesets

joff — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:26:34 +0000

Post has moved here: http://brutalbits.com/blog/2009/07/recovering-lost-intellij-idea-shelved-changesets-2/

New Job!

joff — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:57:06 +0000

Looks like I have a new job in Melbourne! I start on the 2nd of January at Stock Software.. They are a small contracting / consultancy type place, and it sounds like I’ll be working on some cool J2EE stuff as well as some Ruby on Rails, which I should have some fun learning. Windows based desktops though.. I might end up having to use…… Vista.. Ergh.

I should be heading over just after Christmas, so there’s a little bit of time for me to get myself all packed and organised. I’ll probably typically leave everything until the last minute

Got a new Nokia N95, mainly for the GPS feature so I don’t get too lost… Oh how I do like the new toys

Going to see Muse tomorrow night, that should be awesome.

Nasty haxors

joff — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:20:28 +0000

Well it seems I’m back on the air after some nasty haxors (probably script kiddies) managed to root the box Prime suspect #1 is somebody’s insecure PHP code (not mine, of course ). It’s times like this that really cements my recently found hatred for PHP. I’m thinking if I need to do any new sites that aren’t big enough to warrant Java, then I’ll have to look into something else. Python? Ruby? Hmm, there’s always too much new stuff to learn in this line of business….

On interweb trends

joff — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:08:01 +0000

It seems that not only do I have a blog now, but I find myself being increasingly suck(er)ed into these social networking sites. I now find I have a bebo, am on oldfriends.co.nz a dreaded myspace, and now also a facebook.

So far, facebook has the least offensive user interface. So much time-wasting, but it seems like good distraction from the JAAS security problems I’m having with JBoss right now

Different way of teaching programming

joff — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:25:15 +0000

I saw this link on Digg, and was immediately interested. I have a friend, who is bright enough, but has never really been able to ‘get’ programming. This is because she learns in a aural/kinetic way, which is pretty much the exact opposite of the way programming is traditionally taught.

LAN

joff — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:14:46 +0000

Pics here

Had a LAN at my place in celebration of Josh’s birthday. Marcel and I were supposed to be helping Matt with the PyWeek game coding contest, but obviously decided that a couple of rounds of C&C3 were more important. Priorities really

In all, we had myself, James, Dave, Josh, Jono, Marcel, Wayne and Steven gaming, and Shannon & Fiona browsing YouTube all night – so a pretty good turnout. Was very suprised we could get so many people into my small flat.. the hired trestle tables worked a treat, I think we’ll use them again. A++

Team [EMO] caused much mirth and hilarity on the ICONZ gungame server. Poor ol ‘danzig’ just didn’t get the joke

Fans set up to create a vortex of cold air in a hot room is a brilliant idea. Until Jono lets the fart-from-the-depths-of-hell drop, and said fans cause it to circulate through the entire room within mere seconds.

Extra bonus: the flat is now actually clean and organised.. something which I’m sure I would have just postponed indefinitely otherwise