Bitwise Evolution

Musings of a Seattle-area hacker with a bent on improving digital lifestyles.

Month: June, 2009

Cleaning up my browser.

I’m done with firefox — Opera 10 now plays flash well, has adblock via. urifilters, a cleaner UI (no menubar, a menu button!) vertical tabs are supported natively, etc… I don’t really like the widget toolkit used in the file open/save dialog, but that’s much better than the horrid performance/stability/bizarre bugs of Firefox.

The minimal UI [...]

Maven deployment issues

I’ve been building / porting various projects to maven lately, and pushing them to our in-house maven server. For a while, I was doing this from my laptop at home. However, at work, I’m pushing to localhost (it’s a temporary thing while we determine if maven will actually work long-term.)

The following error had [...]