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That time of year is slowly approaching.. What time of year, you may ask? Well, since last October, i am back to university (this time i am really finishing my BCS degree, honest) and the exams are round the corner I am actually enjoying studying more than i did years ago.. and (this sounds kinda scary, i know) i am kind of looking forward to the exams :))

Anyway, the point of the post was something else: finally, after more than a year of thinking about it, i actually took the time to go and pass the Sun Java Programmer Certification exam… yes, i passed! w00t! (scored 83%)
So, here’s another certification to add to the collection: Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4.
Next, please…

For some time now i’ve been thinking of changing my blog engine (currently it is Movable Type) to something else.
Why? .. well, i don’t like the way you edit templates in MT and the comment-spammers are really annoying and i don’t think Todd will ever upgrade the current MT version (and, don’t worry Todd, i don’t even want to ;))
So, while waiting for Todd to finish up his CF blogging system (and then pass it on to me ;)) I have narrowed down my choice to two options: Textpattern and PyBlosxom.

I like Textpattern for its ease of use and configuration and being very flexible. On the other hand, PyBlosxom is written in Python and as such very appealing (oportunity to learn more Python! :D)
Does any of you know of other (possibly Python) blog systems worth taking a look?

Thank you Macromedia for the very nice gift! The Timbuk2 Laptop Messenger bag is great and my laptop fits perfectly … and it came just on time, as if MM knew that i have school starting in a week and was looking for a nice bag to carry my laptop around Thank you also for the nice “Go to And Play” tshirt, the UI flash cards and the personaly signed letter from Mike Chambers.

The Fedex box arrived on Wednesday (unfortunatelly i had to pay 60 euros of taxes), but i wasn’t able to open it and see what’s inside till this Friday (i was away).

I would also like to thank Christian Cantrell for sending me the letter about Central 1.5 release.

I am not sure what i did to turn up on Macromedia “gift list” (this is not the first time i recieve a gift from MM) but i feel happy and honoured and glad Thank you again!

I didn’t know this before: It appears that css classes are case sensitive, but you must declare a proper doctype in your html document for this to work (html 4.01 and above).

For example, this stylesheet:

// myStyle.css

.myclass{
	background-color: Aqua;
	width: 50px;
	height: 50px;
}

.MyClass{
	background-color: Fuchsia;
	width: 100px;
	height: 100px;
}

whit this html document:

//test.html
 
 

will apply to each div the proper class.
If you test this in Mozilla Firefox or Netscape 7.1 it works stright away. If you take out the xml declaration it works even in IE6. But if you delete the doctype declaration, then both divs will take the style of the latter class (MyClass in this example).
I should probably note, that this has been only tested on my local PC, so i don’t know if this is true for the Mac as well…

Just a little facelift … Don’t you just love css … well.. apart from the footer that does not show right in IE

Been reading Test driven Development at the moment (toghether with other 10 or so books, heh) and today i came accross this sentence that really got me.
It’s one of those things you want to write on a piece of paper and stick it on your monitor so you never forget.
Kent Beck says:
“How do you leave a programming session when you’re programming alone? Leave the last test broken.”

Basically he is saying that one should never leave the code for the next session in a perfectly working state. Before leaving, one should always make one last thing and make sure that that last thing does not work. …so that when you come back to the code, you then have an obvious place to start - “an obvious, concrete bookmark to help you remember what you were thinking”. This will also keep you away from just staring at the code and marvelling at how everything works, trying to think of what to work on next but not really starting it yet cos you don’t want to break anything so soon .. or just trying to remember the mental state you were in and thus wasting a lot of time before finally getting back to typing.
(happens to me a lot of times!)

This does not work out well if you’re working with a team, though

I woke up today just to find out that Macromedia Flash MX 2004 updater is here! And if your trial has already expired, no worries. The updater will extend it for another 30 days. That’s really cool of Macromedia.

Go get it here.

Burak KALAYCI , the guy behind Actionscript Viewer has started his own blog. Go bookmark it now!
via MediaSparkles.

Yesterday (31st october) was a strange day.
I could not boot my machine and it looked like one of my hds just died! This would mean all my important stuff (work files, mails and other things) would be gone for good…. of course, my last backup was from.. ehm… last year? Anyway, i was scared like shit.. and frustrated.. and pissed off.. and… and…
There was no point in staring at the “failed to boot. please insert the system disk and press enter” message all day, so i switched the machine off and went doing other things (like hanging around with my dog and cats and other social stuff - seeing people!) ….

I woke up this morning, determined to fix the problem ( taking the corruped HD out and making a new, clean install of the OS - i already said goodbye to my files) …. i just wanted to try to boot it for the last time, although i already knew it would be in vain …… GUESS WHAT??? it booted alright! everything is like.. ok! i mean.. what happened yesterday? did one of the hard drives decide to dress up like a ghost and play invisible for the halloween?

oh, well… im doing my backups today

While browsing around today i came across this site with some cool css tutorials on lists and floats:
css.maxdesign.com.au