I’ve been using the ported Vibrant Ink theme for IntelliJ IDEA for a while but got envious looking at the Dark Pastels theme for NetBeans. I took a few minutes to adjust the Vibrant Ink theme to match the color scheme in Dark Pastels. You can see the results here:
Unfortunately there’s no way to adjust [...]
Entries from February 26th, 2009
Dark Pastels theme for IntelliJ IDEA
February 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Java
Geek Tool
February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
I ran into a line of posts the other day about customizing Mac desktops. There were quite a few interesting ideas but the ones that stuck out for me were the people making use of Geek Tool.
Geek Tool is an OS/X preference pane that allows you to place pretty much anything on the desktop. And [...]
Android/iPhone Development Comparison
February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · iPhone
ArsTechnica has a very good (though high-level) look at developing for the Android phone. What interested me most was drawing comparisons.
Android
Google created their own implementation of Java (Dalvik). The only way to deploy an app on the phone is to code it in Java.
The Dalvik engine is slower then normal Java (it’s optimized [...]
Tags:Android·Eclipse·iPhone·Java·Objective-C
SSL Attacks
February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Security, Web
Interesting post by Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher:
http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1269
It talks about SSL attacks and when/how they work. He bases his post off of work done by Moxie Marlinspike:
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Marlinspike/BlackHat-DC-09-Marlinspike-Defeating-SSL.pdf
What it boils down to:
You can create a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack that strips SSL and authentication from network traffic and virtually no one will notice. This kind [...]
Tags:Security
Lies, damn lies and browser statistics
February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
There’s been talk about Firefox surpassing IE usage. This comes from statistics culled from w3schools.com. w3schools.com is a web development portal and they’ve been tracking visitors to their site for the last five years. January 2009 has Firefox surpassing all versions of IE, at 45.5% for Firefox and 44.8% for IE. Unfortunately this fails to [...]
IE 8 Compatibility
February 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
Here’s a story which, while it gets some details wrong, gets the point right.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2067&tag=nl.e589
IE 8 is the first browser from Microsoft that runs in “standards mode”. This means that it doesn’t accept HTML with quirks and non-standard extensions. Ironically, most of those quirks and non-standard extensions were created by Microsoft in older IE [...]
