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Trustworthy Javascript learning resources

borfast — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:52:16 +0000

A friend of mine asked me what good websites I know for learning Javascript. Since Javascript is the world's most misunderstood programming language, there are tons of websites and blogs that contain misleading and even plain wrong information, so I wanted to give him a few sites that I know are trustworthy and have good content. I delved into my bookmarks and this is the list I came up with, which I now share in the hope that it is useful for other people too:

soapUI Exception in thread "XpcMessageLoop" in Ubuntu

borfast — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:35:18 +0000

If you use Ubuntu (and this probably happens in other Linux ditros as well) and soapUI spits out a Exception in thread "XpcMessageLoop" java.lang.NullPointerException, here's a simple "fix" for it: edit bin/soapui.sh and uncomment the line

# JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true"

so that it becomes

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true"

"Recycling is just a failure to reduce and reuse."

borfast — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:18:34 +0000

Recycling seems to be very fashionable these days, which is better than just throwing things into the bin and let them end up in a landfill. But for some reason, people are also turning to it as the holy grail of environmental problems - as long as it's recyclable or recycled, it's OK, we can consume more of it.

One of my cats learned how to open closed doors

borfast — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:42:30 +0000

One of my cats, Miu, has learned how to open closed doors. She jumps onto the door handle and waits for it to click. She then gets down and uses her claws to pull the door open. We didn't teach her this but it's quite a useful skill, because we don't need to open the door for her when she's in a room and wants to get out :)

Soccer Sniper

borfast — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:25:08 +0000

OK, now I understand why they fall so many times, apparently for no reason! Poor guys, I always thought that it was lack of integrity and that they were trying to make up some faults against their opponents. How unfair of me!... :)

Original from http://9gag.com/gag/52715.

Why and how to use BCC when sending emails

borfast — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:37:41 +0000

What is BCC?

BCC: ("Blind Carbon Copy", ou "Cópia Oculta") is an email field to which you can add several recipients, while the addresses remain hidden from everyone, unlike the addresses placed in the To: or CC: (Carbon Copy) fields, which are visible to anyone who reads the message.

Why should I use the BCC field?

Vende-se Kia Venga 1.4 EX de 2010

borfast — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:25:12 +0000

Alguém interessado num Kia Venga 1.4 EX de 2010?
O meu pai está a vender o dele e garanto que está practicamente novo - quem o conhece sabe que o meu pai tem um cuidado quase obsessivo com os carros dele, portanto melhor garantia que esta é difícil dar.

Se estiverem interessados, ou se conhecerem quem esteja, agradeço que vejam ou façam circular o anúncio que está aqui: http://www.standvirtual.com/carros/Kia/Venga/P5512509/

Obrigado.

Say NO to ACTA

borfast — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:11:27 +0000

The European Parliament will soon vote on ACTA. The sad thing is that most people don't know what ACTA is - but the really bad thing is: neither do the legislators and politicians voting on it.

ACTA is the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement". With such a name, one would think it's a good thing, right? Well, it turns out that just as with several other misnamed laws of recent times, its name has little to do with what it really does.

How to enable WebGL in Google Chrome in Linux with a blacklisted graphics card

borfast — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:06:12 +0000

Google Maps has a new toy: 3D maps using WebGL. They have both 3D rendered buildings (on some cities) and "3D" satellite imagery (which is basically aerial photos taken from four different angles and you can rotate through them). They actually make further use of WebGL, as they provide hardware accelerated image transitions and some other stuff.

O que penso do nosso povo

borfast — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:40:10 +0000