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- I'd like to raise my hand in a toast with Harry Caray: to the Cubbies, the only team able to lose back-to-back games with the heart of their pitching rotation, at home in Wrigley Field to give up their best chance at a World Series berth in fifty years. Every year, come rain or shine I'll support you despite the fact that you string me along again and again. You are truly the most difficult team to be a fan for, and being the massochists that we are, we love you for it. Thanks for another great season, probably the best ever. |
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- For the first time during my many-legged tour, the city of Toronto is the first to provide any level of connectivity, with an open network drop in my room, free wireless in a number of spots, and pay-for internet drops in nearly every hotel. So maybe it's no Foocamp, but it sure beats the thick walls of Oxford. And the payoff? For the first time in many weeks I get to talk to my peeps. Assuming that the Association of Internet Researchers conference is providing free wireless, I'll be posting my notes somewhere in cyberspace. |
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- From Craig Chambers, et al. at the University of Washington comes HydroJ... In an evolving software system, components must be able to change independently while remaining compatible with their peers. One obstacle to independent evolution is the brittle parameter problem: the ability of two components to communicate can depend on a number of inessential details of the types, structure, and/or contents of the values communicated... |
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- From "Everett" to "Whidbey" to "Orcas", the Common Language Runtime is evolving, with new features and improved performance in each release. Come hear the story of the CLR and discuss with the CLR architects how they designed the wicked features, and their approach to topics such as performance tuning. See previous item. This panel includes Chris Brumme, which should make going to the PDC worthwhile... A related panel which also looks interesting will discuss Hosting the CLR in Your Applications. |
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- One of the unique aspects of the .NET platform is its support for multiple programming languages, with over 23 available today. How do these multiple languages influence the design of the CLR and CLS? How can languages written to the CLS differentiate themselves from one another? Join the architects of languages including C#, C++, VB. |
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- This paper proposes extending popular object-oriented programming languages such as C#, VB or Java with native support for XML. In our approach XML documents or document fragments become first class citizens. This means that XML values can be constructed, loaded, passed, transformed and updated in a type-safe manner. The type system extensions, however, are not based on XML Schemas. We show that XSDs and the XML data model do not fit well with the class-based nominal type system and object graph representation of our target languages. |
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- Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, talks with Bill Venners about Ruby's design philosophy, including design imperfection, the danger of orthogonality, and the importance of the human in computer endeavors. Rather than discussing Ruby features in particular, Yukihiro Matsumoto explains the principles that guided him in the design of Ruby. Interestingly OO is never mentioned (perhaps it's taken for granted). An interesting quote: Yukihiro Matsumoto: |
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- -Espera usted a alguien mas?.- -mmm.... creo que si.- -Gusta usted un abrazo antes de pedir?.- -mmmm.. |
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- Sectra will showcase its products at TechNet Europe, a military defense trade show at the Jolly Hotel Midas in Rome on October 16-17. Visitors are welcome to test our secure mobile telephones, which are used today by the most demanding defense and public s... |
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- Put safety first with integrated systems management, says Transmitton In this safety-conscious world, systems that can control and monitor sites like large factories, airports or railway stations are increasingly in demand. Wh... |
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- MEGAN MCARDLE looked stunning in the PBS Media Matters special last year. (It seems to have stuck in Kevin Drum's mind -- note to Kevin: she wasn't blonde, just backlit.) Apparently, that wasn't a fluke.... |
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- MEGAN MCARDLE looked stunning in the PBS Media Matters special last year. (It seems to have stuck in Kevin Drum's mind -- note to Kevin: she wasn't blonde, just backlit.) Apparently, that wasn't a fluke.... |
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- A former Enron Corp. accountant and a former Merrill Lynch & Co. executive pleaded innocent Wednesday to conspiracy charges in connection with a sham deal to help the energy company inflate 1999 earnings with a loan disguised as a sale of Nigerian barges. |
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- Another Halliburton scam washingtonpost.com: Price of Gasoline for Iraq Questioned And here's an interesting article noting that Cheney was an absolute disaster as CEO of Halliburton and that the company is not doing well because of Cheney's policies de |
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- I agree with removing the mail not. from article and tip comments, but (if I may be as bold) would suggest some of the following:Use the cookie you drop for my name and my email address to also cache... |
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- Trotz des fast gesättigten Telefonmarktes konnte E-Plus nun die acht Millionen Kunden-Marke überspringen. [...] |
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- A lot of my more nieve users don't understand what that clicking on a ? will create a topic. One solution, demo'd at http://testwiki.mrjc. |
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- Lulu's Lines TRIGGER 1::: There was a time...... ...when I had no direction in my life. I did not imagine myself doing anything. |
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- The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency declares that the Revised Model Class Screening Report for Routine Projects within the Town of Banff and Proximate Outlying Areas (2003) may be used in conducting environmental screenings for specific projects. The report, developed by Parks Canada in cooperation with the Town of Banff, describes how Canadian Environmental Assessment Act requirements will be met before certain types of projects are allowed to proceed. Routine projects covered under the report include: the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning/abandonment of buildings, service lines, roads, sidewalks, boardwalks, parking lots, trails, parks, parkettes and recreational grounds within the Town of Banff and certain outlying areas. (Canada News Wire - October 15) |
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- Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for 13 years, while her husband fought to turn off the life support and her parents fought to keep it going. She had a heart attack at age 26 -- she's spent fully a third of her life in a coma.Her husband says she would never have wanted to remain alive in such a state. I certainly would want the machines turned off if that happened to me.I hope they finally allow the poor woman to die. |
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- There's a strange development that you'll see on the second season of Dark Angel (coming soon on DVD) - you learn that Jessica Alba is some kind of messiah. Like you didn't know that already. |
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- There are some very interesting books coming out from the left. If current trends keep up, we could dominate the NY Times top 10 (hell, O'Reilly only lasted a week so far at #1 and he's got two daily pulpits... |
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- A TV special? Ugh. Of course, one won't be able to not watch. |
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Damn! (Oct 16 2003 03:55 GMT) - Well I'm trying to stay positive, but it looks like the fat lady is about to sing and it's not... |
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- Conspiracy A.D. have just announced the title, final tracklist and release date for their forthcoming album. Humanity = Destruction ...The end is near is set to be worldwide released by Crash Music Inc on January 13th 2004. |
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- "VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com |
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- We're watching British Week on CBC with David Frost and others. A British mimic of Bush II was giving some great impressions of him. |
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- 10 Die as Staten Island Ferry Slams Into Pier [nyt] |
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- 1 hour powerflex, 1 hour kwando |
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- Day Fifteen. On the subject of today's weigh-in, it's SO not about the numbers. For the past few weeks, I have been making smart food choices and feeding my body moderate amounts of nutritious food. I have been drinking lots of water. I am working the Project. |
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- Good to know about. It looks like Microsoft is not cleaning up very well when users are visiting your SharePoint pages. Download his patch from their download center. |
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- Microsoft just (yesterday) released on its download center a sample application demonstrating the Amazon Web Parts. They go a bit further then the ones I talk about in my articles. Have a look at the code since it demonstrates how to incorporate asynchronous processing and data caching. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - USA Today Oct 15 2003 10:25PM ET... |
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