It's nice...

... to see Google clueless... for once.

Meaningful error messages

This calls for a new series:

A Geek is Born

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Singleton

Oh, yes, faux singletons... haven't we all had them.

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Fantastic error message

You just have to love digg for this error message:

The bug from yesterday [comic]

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[wired] Top 20 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument

Yes...
yes... and
yes...

Top 20 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument (GeekDad Wayback Machine) | GeekDad | Wired.com

So true.

Coder's Revenge

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Annotations

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Coding Canary

Yes.
Exactly.


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Good code

So true.

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Cowardly admin

How nice... I got this error message on a webserver just now:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, /dev/null and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

The server administrator /dev/null... didn't know that admins are that self-conscious nowadays.

SOAP vs REST

The best explanation or visualization of the main difference between SOAP/WS* and REST

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"Gartner Magic Quadrant" For Dummies

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Open vs. Closed - "Steve Cares For Us"

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also see TechCrunch about "Googles Nuke" in the Apple vs. Google Voice fight.

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

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No wait ...

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Rejoice: Ancient Greek Spell Checker for OpenOffice

So the last reason that kept you guys from using OpenOffice.org is finally gone:

Ancient Greek Spell Checker | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions:

Spell Checker for Ancient Greek based on Morpheus word list (provided by the Perseus Project).
This is an alpha version.
Known issues:
1. Hyphenation is not yet supported.
2. Apostrophe is considered an 'ignored character'.
3. Retrieval of long words is quite slow.

At least it proves that OpenOffice.org DOES have proper language support...

RTFM 2.0

Just learned of a cool web service that totally replaces the good old RTFM [1].

It's called "Let me Google that for you" ... and does exactly that.

You enter a term in letmegooglethatforyou, get a link in return and send this link to your RTFMee [2].
Who, will get animated instructions on how he/she should have used Google in the first place.

I guess those RTFMees will get the message, then!

And no, in the spirit of this tool, I wont post the URL of this service.

Enjoy.
--
[1] RTFM = "Read the f*cking manual"... something you tell people who ask stupid questions that could be answered by simply looking it up in the manual. A bit outdated... Kind of nineties...
[2] I like that term ... even though I just made it up.

Restore Natural Order

I just noticed that Thunderbird saves the world.
Really.

If you click on the column selection button in one of the table views, e.g. Inbox, or the Lighning event list
you get a "Restore Natural Order" action.

Cool.

If only we had that in the real world.