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
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has appointed a former member of a banned pro-Khalistan organisation to his transport board and addressed a group alleged to be linked to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also banned, a newspaper reported.
Cut-throat competition, unemployment, increasing tension and break-up of families is leading the most of India's population, including a high percentage of youth, into depression.
Skin colour matters as far as visitors to India are concerned, says a fourth generation South African Indian who claims to have faced "racial discrimination" himself, particularly in the country's northern parts.
