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Comment on A really easy way to remove beer bottle labels? by ccnet

ccnet — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:15:45 +0000

Ah OK. I get you Mike. That makes more sense. I used the PBW successfully the other night. 2oz to 5 gal of water. Let the bottles soak overnight. Every label came off and some of the bottles required a bit of scrubbing but nothing major. I had lots of labels floating in the water.

Comment on A really easy way to remove beer bottle labels? by Mike Doughty

Mike Doughty — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:22:23 +0000

Just to clarify … PBW won’t always work by itself. Sometimes the glue needs something a lot stronger like laundry detergent, but PBW is good for sanitary cleaning to remove all the detergent. You don’t want any traces of Tide in your beer.

Comment on It’s the requirements stupid! by ccnet

ccnet — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:41:34 +0000

Hah. You’re right. The project where we had the most user input also had no unit tests. We did have a QA team but no such thing as unit tests in that environment and everything still worked. I was just talking with another coworker the other day about unit testing and how in “the old days” we generally didn’t have that and things still worked . I’m definitely not a fan of TDD. I’m not a big fan of unit tests either.

Comment on It’s the requirements stupid! by John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:23:02 +0000

Most of the most successful projects I’ve worked on had 0 unit tests too. I know some people think it is impossible, but on these projects we had end users that understood how the processes should work and could communicate requirements to the programmers. I agree, that is the most important thing of any project.

Comment on Eclipse UI Elements: the Vertical Ruler and Overview Ruler by learner

learner — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:19:48 +0000

helpful

Comment on CrashPlan saves me again by Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:09:59 +0000

You’re welcome, from Code 42 (the makers of CrashPlan).

Comment on Corporate computer policies and GTD by John

John — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:14:02 +0000

I recently ran into the same exact problem at the place where I’m currently employed. Funny thing is that I’ve been using my own personal laptop(s) at work for the past 3 years, and they finally caught on. My boss(s) believes that I’m a “super productive” employee so they were all in for buying me whatever I needed for me (*ahem* a Mac!) to continue to stay productive (and happily employed) — however, corporate would hear nothing of it.. “NO Macs!!” they said! Don’t get me wrong, my boss’s are awesome, and it seems like they support what I do, so I can’t complain about that.. but if we’re a technology company.. shouldn’t we embrace new/different technology? Why must we be afraid of something different?

But here’s what doesn’t make sense.. the corporation is okay with giving its employees a Corporate Dell Laptop with Linux and virtual windows, but they’re not okay with a personally owned Mac Laptop with virtual windows. That makes us technologists kinda puke, right? The corporation still looses control over monitoring/controlling software that’s on employee’s PC’s since people run whatever flavor of Linux they want, so unless there’s something embedded in the firmware/hardware that spying on people, I don’t see the difference.

Comment on Chart caching issues with JasperReports web output? A solution! by cristhiank

cristhiank — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:10:56 +0000

Great Solution! Works for me…

Comment on Is there really a gel pen that works with a Moleskine notebook? by ccnet

ccnet — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:12:46 +0000

Thanks for the response Rob. Based on my experience so far I’m not surprised that other pens don’t work so well on the Moleskine paper. Maybe a reason to avoid the notebooks in the future and try something else but as I said this one was a gift. So far the Staedtler pencils are working well for me. I’m not a purist so my search might not go on much longer. Might be as easy as the Staedtler pencils for this notebook then trying more pens again with another notebook.

Happy Holidays!

Comment on Is there really a gel pen that works with a Moleskine notebook? by Craig

Craig — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:32:32 +0000

I can’t believe no one has mentioned the Pentel Slicci! Get the 0.4mm one from JetPens.

Personally I usually use fountain pens and thick paper. However, I need to write on both sides of the page in my moleskine planner so any pen that writes to heavy is out. The Sliccis are similar to the uniball signos that others have recommended but in my opinion are just a little nicer.