A friend of mine asked me what good websites I know for learning Javascript. Since Javascript is the world's most misunderstood programming language, there are tons of websites and blogs that contain misleading and even plain wrong information, so I wanted to give him a few sites that I know are trustworthy and have good content. I delved into my bookmarks and this is the list I came up with, which I now share in the hope that it is useful for other people too:

If you use Ubuntu (and this probably happens in other Linux ditros as well) and soapUI spits out a Exception in thread "XpcMessageLoop" java.lang.NullPointerException, here's a simple "fix" for it: edit bin/soapui.sh and uncomment the line

#   JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true"

so that it becomes

    JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true"

What is BCC?

BCC: (Blind Carbon Copy) is an email field to which you can add several recipients, while the addresses remain hidden from everyone, unlike the addresses placed in the To: or CC: (Carbon Copy) fields, which are visible to anyone who reads the message.

Why should I use the BCC field?

Update 19/05/2013: Andy pointed out in a comment here that there's an easier way to do this with current versions of Chrome.

• Go to chrome://flags
• Enable the flag "Override software rendering list".
• Restart Chrome

Just like Andy points out, this «accomplishes the same thing, but via Chrome/Chromium settings and it is saved so doesn't require running via terminal or editing a shortcut parameters.» Thanks for the tip, Andy!

Just updated my Arris password of the day generator to include both a bookmarklet and an online generator.

1. Turn on the Speakers and allow the page to load fully;
2. Stare at the Picture without laughing for 60 seconds;
3. If you start laughing, consider yourself legally insane.

This one is quite old but I find it such a precious gem, that I'm replicating it here, just in case it gets lost on the web. :)

Hoje abri o Google Chrome 10 e tive uma bela surpresa:

Google Chrome App Store :)

Tem lá algumas coisas bem giras... :)

Hoje, dia 5 de Janeiro de 2011, após 3 longos anos do lançamento da versão 6, foi lançado o Drupal 7, que é provavelmente a versão mais revolucionária da história do projecto.

http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0
http://drupal.org/drupal-7-released

No seguimento do enorme sucesso que foi o primeiro Humble Indie Bundle, que gerou mais de $1000000 (sim, mais de um milhão de dólares americanos) de receitas, incluía os jogos Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD e Penumbra Overture, e dos quais o código foi posteriormente lançado sob uma licença de Free software, chega-nos agora o Humble Indie Bu

De há mais de uma semana para cá que o Pombo se anda a queixar de não se conseguir ligar à rede do MSN, dando o seguinte erro:
The certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com could not be validated. The certificate chain presented is invalid.

Hoje dei-me finalmente ao trabalho de tentar encontrar a solução para o problema e cá está ela, em passos simples: