Time for changes

My professional live will change. Today I left notice in Hewlett-Packard’s HR department. Starting from December 1st I wont be working for HP anymore. I will change regular job to contractor work as network consultant. Time between contracts I will use to develop some software, there are some ideas bouncing in my head ;-)))

Technorati have put my blog on hold

Somehow it looks like Technorati have put my blog on hold. When I check Technorati, last update to my blog, according to them was on Oct 24th. I could not blame TR since Technoratibot was not seen in webserver logs since Oct 24th, so no wonder they don’t know about all new posts :)) Well, …

Google Mail and counter of doom

You know Gmail. And now how marvelous service it is… A lot space for emails… And even on front page, they assure You how much space there is available Right now it says: Lots of space Over 2757.272164 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message. And counter goes …

Does Rails reload all in development mode?

In many places You can find info that Rails in development mode checks whether files with application were modified and in such case reloads them. That way You can test always latest version of application. This is not correct, when You think Rails reloads whole application. Reloaded can be content from app directory. I did …

JavaScript – no automatic conversion to number

I was surprised when I wrote code to extract values from cookie and using it to set map center. Well it looks like in JS there is no automatic conversion from string to number. Code looks like: if ( res = getCookie(“rnsloc”).match(“(.*)-(.*)-(.*)”) ) { map.setCenter( new GLatLng(res[1], res[2]), res[3] ) } else map.setCenter( new GLatLng(52.2419, …