At least the stupid machine isn't smoking this time - it's just not draining. Seriously though: are the dishwasher gods just out to get me, demanding that I learn to wash everything by hand for some reason?
Cincom Smalltalk won the last shootout sponsored in Europe (by a Java magazine, no less) - here's another chance to show people how cool Smalltalk is. C't magazine is sponsoring a contest (the site is in German) - the goal:
history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head (via Fallen Rogue) 233 cd (and aliases that do a cd) 154 emacs 125 svn 83 grep 72 sdiff (alias to svn diff w/
When we have async callbacks in a Java API, the idiommatic way of writing the interface to register the callback looks like: Future f = asyncEventThing.addListener(new Listener() { public Foo onEvent(Event e) { return new Foo(e.getSomethingNifty()); } }) I'd like
There's a company that makes shirts for men and women using one cloth-cutting machine and one sewing machine. The manufacturing sequence is the same. A single women's shirt is cut in 2 minutes, sewn in 15 minutes, requires fabric costing
Bungee has created a virtual appliance for their Platform as a Service and also simplified their pricing scheme. Bungee's platform starts with a web based IDE that lets you create Ajax web applications and then deploy them onto Bungee's data
The preliminary schedule for Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is up - you can see a calendar view here, and an alphabetical (by speaker) listing here. The first talk listed on the summary page should be of interest to a lot of
Last week I talked with GroundWork's Richard Trezza and David Dennis about the newly released GroundWork Open Source Monitor 5.2. As you'll recall, I talked with David a little while ago in video form about 5.2 and GroundWork in general.
Mathew Ingram notes the twitter storm around one of Twitter's prominent guys leaving - and notes that a lot of the problem is likely the premature claim that the scaling issues there were a thing of the past: As support
McAfee has released, what it claims to be, the world's fastest network security suite. New McAfee Total Protection for Network claims to offer email, Web, and intrusion protection in one suite.
Mass Attack JavaScript injection infects sites with varying content. Among these are some UK government websites and a UN website. Number of compromised sites has increased by a factor of ten in hours.
Collaboration formed to address growing need for grid and cluster management systems in India market region. Joint solutions will help to increase revenue, improve customer service, and compliance at a lower TCO.
A new wireless router helps in easy setup and configuration of wireless networks. Among other things, it boasts of a built-in printer server function that allows users to "Plug-N-Share" by plugging USB printers into the router and sharing those printers
