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2010-05-28 :: Jim Priest // Code + Reviews
VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner's Guide

Packt recently sent me a copy of VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide to check out. At first glance the book is very entry level. The discuss setting it up on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux.  They also go into installing guest additions and sharing folders. But digging deeper into the index they also cover more [...]

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So it’s been almost 4 weeks (!) since my accident and  I thought I’d follow-up and do an entry about all the gear I was wearing during my accident.  I’ve been riding since my early teens and this is my first accident.   I’m fairly religious about safety and practice ATGATT (all the gear all the [...]

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2010-02-05 :: Jim Priest // Code + Reviews
Book Review: Oracle SQL Developer 2.1

I’ve been using Oracle SQL Developer I think since the very first initial betas.  I could never stand the TOAD interface and the few bugs I encountered with SQL Developer were never bothersome enough to stop using the tool. Over the years SQL Developer has matured very nicely and now is very stable and feature [...]

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With Bolt coming – I’m wondering if Adobe will continue to support the Eclipse extension (RDS, debugger, etc).  I don’t recall it being updated for Ganymede and looking in the download  the last timestamps are from 1/2008 (it would be nice if they gave this a version #). Right now there appears to be a [...]

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2009-02-05 :: Jim Priest // Code + Reviews
What Are You Reading?

I’m on a reading kick lately and looking for some suggestions.  I occasionally see recommendations get thrown about on Twitter but I forget to write them down. I’ve got the SciFi covered, and I don’t particularly  care for coding related books (I absorb enough of that via the web). What I AM interested in is [...]

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