While many PC users are looking forward to Windows 7, many Mac users are also dying for the newest OS X: Snow Leopard. Most new features sound nice, but not so impressive (After all, this is just a small upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard). However, there is one particular thing that caught my attention: Out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange.
Some background about Microsoft Exchange (ME): This Microsoft technology is very popular in the business world. It allows users to manage emails, tasks and daily events such as conference, meeting, etc. This doesn’t sound much exciting, but a good size business would go nut without using ME or an equivalent system. For example, if I am assigned a project and need to setup a meeting with other employees[a] to gather specs, figure out solutions to the project, etc, (or just planning a party ), this is all I need to do: Read the rest of this entry »
This happens very often, if not every single day. [↩]
This is a new and weird thing, but give the first video a try and see if it catches your attention.
Get excited -- Meet Milo
You are probably thinking: ‘Great! More reasons for the nerds to lock themselves in their rooms. More distraction from my schoolwork.’ And certainly, talking to a computer / imaginary friend does not help socializing… Before my comments bored the devil out of you, take another look at this video. Read the rest of this entry »
One of my bad habit is that I don’t like to learn to use someone else’s product when I know I have the ability to make it.
Throughout years of programming, Date and Time has been one of the things I find annoying to deal with. Luckily, I didn’t have to do much with date and time since most of my work is done around the database and algorithms, until recently, when I was going to build a new blog myself, which requires accurate storage of date & time (when was this published, last modified etc.).
Most programming language have a pretty decent date & time library, but that also means it’s pretty complicated to use. Those libraries are helpful in most cases, such as (2009, 6, 3, 20, 6, 0) will give me June 3, 2009 8:06 PM. But what timezone is it in? Are you talking about 8:06 PM in England or 8:06 PM over in Washington State? Things get hairy once we have to deal with the timezone, and then daylight savings. To be honest, I don’t even know if the Collegedale, TN timezone is currently -1 or +1 for daylight savings. All I know is that it’s 4 hours behind the UTC/GMT and that’s good enough.
With the mind set that I’m not going to find out if I’m under any daylight savings, I need a way to store date and time in the most accurate way possible: Read the rest of this entry »
), this is all I need to do: Read the rest of this entry »
