Filed under: Maintenance, Sedans/Saloons, Jaguar Few would argue that the Jaguar XF is a great looking car and those who have driven it admire its dynamic characteristics. Unfortunately, as soon as you get in and press the start button, you can't help but wonder if the disastrous quality reputation ...

Software, IT, strategy Gregory T. Huang wrote: On Tuesday night, I attended an intriguing event in the Washington Technology Industry Association’s cloud computing series, on “Scaling Into the Cloud with Amazon Web Services.” It was held at Amazon’s Beacon Hill headquarters i...

When I read the headline from Bloody Disgusting that ” ‘Predator’ Reboot in Serious Trouble,” I thought two things. One, there’s a Predator reboot? Two, it’s in trouble? Maybe me not knowing about it (as I know all things) was a sign of that trouble. However, it l...

I can’t stand this anymore so here it goes… We have just hired one more DBA in our Sydney office (welcome Andre!) and we need a new mobile phone. We were trying to contact Vodafone representatives multiple times today starting early morning but they keep saying that their system is down ...

On December 31, some models of the Zune, Microsoft's portable music player, went dark. The devices were unusable until the following day. Failures like this are sometimes caused by complex chains of mishaps, but this particular one is due to a single programming error that is reasonably easy to unde...

On December 31, some models of the Zune, Microsoft's portable music player, went dark. The devices were unusable until the following day. Failures like this are sometimes caused by complex chains of mishaps, but this particular one is due to a single programming error that is reasonably easy to unde...

In 2004, Sun Microsystems released Java version 1.5, which represented one of the biggest core upgrades in the programming language’s lifetime.  Because of the severity of the changes to the core code, many companies were reluctant to migrate.  Five years later, we still see many com...

“The View� moderator Whoopi Goldberg is apparently still unaware that the Constitution explicitly forbids slavery. Appearing on the December 21 edition of “Reliable Sources� (video here), host Howard Kurtz played a clip of Whoopi Goldberg questioning John McCain, that is he were to appoint s...

Just a quick blog today to address an issue that I have been encountered several times since I began programming in Apex, the proprietary language for Salesforce.com.  Some developers have become frustrated when trying to write unit tests for their Controllers.  To be fair, if you don̵...

Perhaps you've experienced this scenario: Your washing machine is broken but you're not sure whether you should repair it or replace it. Replacing your clunker of an appliance will be pricey, but determining repair costs can be elusive until you’ve sprung for the initial service call—and then yo...