Dave's BLog

2004-03-23T09:32:00.000-08:00

Baseball fever is hitting hard. Here's a fun little article for Angels fans. I myself am a Garret Anderson fan.

Yahoo! Sports - MLB - Does Your Favorite Angel Reveal Who You Are?

2004-03-10T10:02:00.000-08:00

TheServerSide.com - Tips on Performance Testing and Optimization

2004-03-10T10:01:00.000-08:00

Here's a good White Paper comparing J2EE and .NET as Web Services platforms. I think for being Java guys they were pretty fair.

TheServerSide.com - J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET: A comparison of building XML-based web services

2004-03-08T12:05:00.000-08:00

Adding this for later reading...

C# and Java: Comparing Programming Languages

2004-02-18T10:19:00.000-08:00

This one is a trip.
Yahoo! News - Teen Learns Mom Accused of His Abduction

2004-01-20T15:01:00.000-08:00

New Java Widgets For Eclipse

2004-01-19T09:42:00.000-08:00

Pretty sick.
Yahoo! News - Police Probe 'Assault' on Scientist Stephen Hawking

2004-01-19T08:53:00.000-08:00

Interesting domain story.
The Register

2004-01-19T08:47:00.000-08:00

An interesting use of copyright law.

Habeas

2004-01-16T16:16:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry, but this is a dumb idea.
Powergrid Fitness

2004-01-09T08:56:00.000-08:00

I found this little commentary on Slashdot and found it rather ammusing. When I took my first literature course in college I saw this sort of thing going on. At first I was completely baffled, and then I suspected my peers and professor were all faking- kinda like we were all sitting around a ouija board and he had his fingers on the little pointer thingy.

Once I figured out that reading literature was really about how cleverly I could craft the most far out determinations and make them plausible, I found it quite enjoyable. It felt like cynical training.

How to Deconstruct Almost Anything

2003-12-16T09:17:00.000-08:00

Software patents are way out of hand. A lot of these 'techniques' simply arise out of the way things work. Preparing files in fast storage before moving them to slower storage is just the way its done.

I'm going to patent my technique for wiping my ass and then everyone will be screwed.
The Register

2003-12-16T08:59:00.000-08:00

I saw this movie a couple of weeks ago because 'Love Actually' was sold out. I thought it was entertaining, but nothing special. Its good to see that it has a saving grace.

Yahoo! News - Apaches Praise 'The Missing' for Accuracy

2003-12-12T08:42:00.000-08:00

Oops! So I tried this out and yep there's a swastika in there. You can find it by changing your font to Bookshelf Symbol 7 in any of the Office 2003 products and typing in the tilde(~) character. The conspiracist in me finds it odd that it would appear under one of the least frequently used characters.

Yahoo! News - Microsoft to Remove Swastikas from Software Fonts

2003-12-11T11:14:00.000-08:00

I work with a few hard core math geeks and I thought this would interest them. I must admit that it is pretty amazing that a number measuring 6,320,430 digits in length could be prime.

In the case of Shafer's discovery, it was 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1.

geeks... :-)

Yahoo! News - Student Finds Largest Known Prime Number

2003-12-09T08:54:00.000-08:00

This one is a tough call. I certainly wouldn't want to see a law stating that parents can't teach their beliefs to their own children, but this is an interesting case.

The easy answer to this would've been for the state to not allow visitation rights.

firstamendmentcenter.org: news

2003-12-09T08:40:00.000-08:00

Something doesn't sit well with me about this idea. Wouldn't it be better to try and break the CO2 down into Carbon and O2? I'm not sure how that process would work be it seems to be better than stuffing CO2 into the air our ground.

The other thing that I find amazing are the TONS of CO2 that they're talking about.

But the equipment needed to enable a power plant to bury carbon dioxide remains costly. To bury a ton of carbon dioxide costs more than $100, estimates Ken Humphreys of Battelle laboratories. For a medium-sized power plant, that amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.

That means a medium sized power plant emits about 1000 tons (tons folks) of CO2 a day. That is insane! What does a ton of CO2 look like? What kind of container does it fit in? Thinking of gases in terms of tons just baffles me. But I'm just a caveman.

Yahoo! News - Administration eyes burying carbon dioxide

2003-12-08T09:10:00.000-08:00

I little development satire.

Role Fragmentation - Software Reality

2003-12-03T12:04:00.000-08:00

This looks cool. I'll try it out and let you know what I think.

Opera for Series 60 tutorial

2003-12-03T08:18:00.000-08:00

Totally bizarre. The Internet is truly bringing people together.

Yahoo! News - German Accused of Cannibalism on Trial

2003-11-26T09:20:00.000-08:00

Little Tommy Yager is feeling upbeat about the near future of our tech economy.

InfoWorld: The tech economy prepares for takeoff: November 21, 2003: By Tom Yager: E-business Strategies

2003-11-26T09:14:00.000-08:00

I work with some LOTR buffs and thought I'd post this in case they happened to stop by.

Secrets of ‘The King’

2003-11-26T09:10:00.000-08:00

Been Gazumped by Google? Trying to make Sense of the "Florida" Update!

2003-11-24T10:06:00.000-08:00

The technical Vice President of Video-C looks a whole lot like Edward Norton. Take a look at the picture at the bottom of the article.

Ericsson: Making beautiful music with Video-C

2003-11-24T08:05:00.000-08:00

More proof that ideas don't have to be complex to be marketed and sold.
RadGad: All about Danger Men Rare/Med/Well Branding Irons...

2003-11-24T08:03:00.000-08:00

Interesting article. I've thought about this very problem when citing online resources in bibliographies. The Internet brings with it a great way for quickly referencing related sources, but because the Internet is so dynamic, those resources could quickly disappear.
I'm thinking there could be a valuable web service where resources could be registered and maintained for long periods of time. This could be of benefit to the scientific community and mankind.

On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral (washingtonpost.com)

2003-11-21T09:04:00.000-08:00

Update on that damn Eolas patent. I think this ruling will be overturned.

ActiveX May Win Reprieve

2003-11-19T09:40:00.000-08:00

This is an interesting condition. I had a bilingual friend who after suffering a brain aneurysm lost the ability to speak Spanish, but maintained his ability to understand it. In his case there's a scientific explanation... I think this lady is faking ;)

Science Blog - Researchers identify rare 'Foreign Accent' syndrome

2003-11-14T14:19:00.000-08:00

Thank you! I'm so glad I actually took the time to google this problem. This error reporting 'feature' is a huge annoyance. I wonder how many people out there actually report their errors.

TechTV | Windows XP Tip: Turn Off Error Reporting

2003-11-12T08:41:00.000-08:00

So, I'm trying to pick up some C++ again. I learned it in school and I thought it was fun, but I certainly would say that I'm not that great at it. I recently read a tutorial to refresh my memory on class templates and function templates. I remember that when I first learned about templates I thought they were a great way to reuse code across classes. Here's an article that shows potential problems that you could run into when you first write that function template. After reading this I remember why I like Java so much.

Topics in C++: Function Template Specialization, Part I

2003-11-12T08:17:00.000-08:00

Thank God. The ramifications of the earlier ruling are just to much to bear. Hopefully, my coworker Karl will be able to breathe a sigh of relief when this is all said and done.

Patent office to re-examine Eolas patent | CNET News.com

2003-11-12T08:04:00.000-08:00

Looks like a setback for Nokia as they try to use their platform to create a mobile download market for their phones.

Yahoo! News - Nokia Says Its N-Gage Copy Protection Hacked

2003-11-11T08:46:00.000-08:00

Is the collective music industry ever going to get it together?
I understand that there are a lot of parties to satisfy in order to make this whole digital media thing work, but it has already been 4 years or so. I don't see this panning out for another couple of years. Meanwhile, everyone will just have to do things illegally.

Yahoo! News - Music Industry Introduces Global Webcast License

2003-11-05T15:07:00.000-08:00

After reading this article I may have to give .NET a try. What's always kept me away is that there's no FREE entry into .NET. I don't want to have to pay for anything in order to try it out.SD Times: Columns: Integration Watch

2003-11-04T09:31:00.000-08:00

UML Modeling plugin for Eclipse

Omondo

2003-10-12T11:56:00.000-07:00

I came across ArgoUML today. UML tools can be expensive, but this one appears to provide the basic functionality one would need in a project. I especially like the User Manual and its desciption of the software development process using UML. (beginning at chapter 3)

ArgoUML Open Source UML Modeling tool

2003-10-10T09:18:00.000-07:00

XSLT Reference
XSLT Reference

2003-10-09T21:08:00.000-07:00

I'm sure that this will come in handy at some point... Reverse engineering minesweeper and writing an app on top of it? Hmmmm.....

The Code Project - Minesweeper, Behind the scenes - C# Programming

2003-10-05T18:05:00.000-07:00

A good article for starting your first J2ME game. Note the MicroJava link at the bootom. So far I've found this to be a good resource for J2ME dev.

O'Reilly Network: Your First Micro Java Game

2003-10-05T17:55:00.000-07:00

Not as good as the step by step tutorial, but still possibly a good overview of the MIDP 2.0 Game API.

J2ME : MicroDevNet : MIDP 2.0: The Game API

2003-10-04T23:18:00.000-07:00

Easily add web services to your J2ME apps with kSOAP and kXML.

The home of kXML at Enhydra.org

2003-10-04T23:13:00.000-07:00

Bring out the GIMP! I remember back in the day you could never find a decent graphics editor for free.
The GIMP Homepage

2003-10-04T23:03:00.000-07:00

I've been messing around with MIDP on my Nokia 3650 lately. I came across this great tutorial on creating games for MIDP 2.0. I can't wait until these new 2.0 phones come out.

J2ME : MicroDevNet : MIDP 2.0 Game: Step-by-Step Code Samples