A known author of many java and flex-related articles Yakov Fain has published a book named “Enterprise Software Without the BS”. This is a fairly light yet a bit sarcastic (ok, ironic) reading about the software industry. It is available free of charge on his website. Highly recommended!

Again these stupid errors with damn Vista system. In order to make it work read the following and add the path to the cc1plus.exe (in Settings->Compiler->Programs->Additional Paths). It worked for me quite well.

After successful installation of 3DMax 7 on Windows Vista the application doesn’t start with the message - ‘couldn’t locate acge16.dll’. All you have to do is to copy all DLL files from ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared’ to the location of your 3DMax installation, for example to ‘C:\3dmax\. After this simple procedure 3DMax works on Vista with no problems.

13 September is a Programmer’s Day - an informal celebration of the 256th day of the year (256 is a power of two, i.e. 2^8=256). Unfortunately wikipedia has deleted the page of this holiday for the reason “Imaginary/joke holiday.” What a shame