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Archive for February, 2008

Eclipse + Leopard = Crash?

I recently upgraded to Leopard on my work MacBook Pro. In Eclipse, one of the first things I ran into was anytime I tried to do Open Resource (Shift + ⌘ + R) to open a file resource, Eclipse would crash with a nasty exception.
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
After doing a bit of googling, [...]

Javascript Password Revealer using Prototype

Inspired by the latest Coding Horror post, here’s an code snippet that allows you to implement a password revealer using the Prototype JavaScript library.

function togglePassword(elem){

var e=$(elem);

e.type==’password’ ? e.type=’input’ : e.type=’password’;

}

Check it out in action below.
<br /> Check it out [...]

Using JMeter for load testing

I came across JMeter a while back but never got a chance to try it out. From the JMeter website:
Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test [...]

Prior work experience not needed?

Jeff Atwood just posted an article on the myth that the more years of experience a developer has, the better candidate they are for a position. In the article he references a previous post that spoke to the hypothesis that there is no correlation between skill in programming and experience. This is exactly [...]

Happy New Year!

For those of us who get little red envelopes today, happy new year!

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theodorenguyen-cao.com%2F2008%2F02%2F07%2Fhappy-new-year%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Happy+New+Year%21′;
addthis_pub = ‘duyvu’;

Social Matchbox DC

Last week, I attended Social Matchbox DC with Brent and Brendan.

We all thought it would be a showcase of startups around the DC talking about the cool things they are doing. To our surprise it was more of a job fair than a social gathering. However, they had free pizza so I [...]

Puzzle - 100 Doors

I’m a big fan of logic puzzles. Normally, we only get asked these kind of questions during interviews but they are pretty fun to think about outside of an interview setting.
Here we go:
There are 100 doors in a long hallway. They are all closed. The first time you walk by each door, [...]