Month: September 2005

I went to the Mac-store the other day to look for a computer bag but ended up playing with the Macs they had on display. I have been playing with the idea of getting a Mac Mini to use at home, but one thing bothered me though: I was unable to access the menus using the keyboard.

None of the store employees knew how to do it but instead told me that: “OS X is a mouse operating system…” This is totally unacceptable to me so I left the store and kind of gave up on the idea of becoming a Mac owner.

After this experience I was very pleasently surprised when my big brother found out how (via one of our customers where a couple of users uses Mac). Pressing Ctrl-F2 will access the menu.

So now it is back to the store… 🙂

I’m going to my first Lotusphere – I just booked the conference and hotel. I’m really looking forward to this event. See you all in Orlando… 🙂

To save precious GRPS dial-up time and bandwidth from my cellphone I would like to be able to use the w.bloggar blog client to post to my blogs ia the metaWebLog API (Pebble supports both the metaWebLog and Blogger API via xmlrpc). This is mainly for my personal blog (in Danish) where I keep my training diary.

The issue I was having was a strange one that only appeared when hosting multiple blogs in the same instance. The issue was that national characters being escaped to HTML entities wasn’t displayed correctly on the multi-blog aggreate screen.

The solution was to fix the way the content was truncated before being displayed. I used the Jakarta Commons Lang to unescape the entities instead of the home-rolled solution.

Full details and a patch can be found as PEB-279 in the Pebble JIRA.