Archives for "February, 2009"

Posted by matt kiazyk on 8th February 2009

Random Vista French Characters

For those of you who are plagued by the random french characters in Vista, simply hold down Ctrl and Shift for a few seconds and they disappear. From searching around the internet it seems that it’s only effected us Canadians up here in the northern land.
Hope this helps somebody. It’ll help me next time I [...]

Posted by matt kiazyk on 3rd February 2009

The data visualization on NYTimes.com rocks

Take a look at this

and this
Now I’m not sure how long this took to build these, but damn! If only you could convince the corporate world that doing visualizations with things other then bar and line graphs

Posted by matt kiazyk on 1st February 2009

Your so sillly Java

I’ve been trying lately to create some new sidebar applications for Lotus Notes 8. I’ve had a little bit of difficulty understanding all the properties and paths you have to update in order to get things to work, but it’s slowly coming together.
The latest has been using the Microsoft jdbc connector. For the life of [...]