I know there are bunch of people out there that hate XML Schema, I’m not one of them, but I do dislike writing XML Schema. So how do you get the power without the pain? We’ll explore this with a spec by example.
I found irrefutable evidence that PC people are buying Mac Minis.
This is something I never even considered doing to any of my Macs; here someone describes overclocking their Mac mini. Only a crazy PC enthusiast would buy a brand new piece of hardware, open it up, and overclock the…
I just noticed today that I am getting a pi/2% discount from my purchases from Amazon because I used a9.com.
Thats a pretty good deal considering I don’t really use A9 that much and was just trying it out. Totally worth setting…
In this entry I’m going to decompose an application I have written using Java 5, JSP 2.0, and a little bit of Hibernate. I’ll try and track all the work done including the changes as I went along by using my trusty source control system.
Cedric pointed me towards an article that responds to an interview given by Steve Jobs. Why you might ask? Because Cedric loves Microsoft and since I switched to a Mac he continually sends me this stuff, although he is not nearly as infantile as Cameron.
Update 2: JRockit Real Time 3.1.2 using -XgcPrio:deterministic performed even better than this configuration in testing though it is not yet an approved VM at Yahoo! we will continue to test with it.
After watching about a million of these shows where they open some tomb in a pyramid and find nothing, I have a theory…
First a little engineering. The pyramids are not built by putting a whole bunch of rocks on top of one another and hollowing them out…
Neverwinter Nights takes programmable to a new level, but it is still ham-strung by its implementation.
I have always been an avid player of programmable video games. Back in the Commodore 64 days it was this tank game where you made a program to defeat your…
Updated Yet Again: Relaunched as 4hoursearch including the source code. See this blog entry.
Updated Again: Yuil is dead. However, you can always get the same great search results here.
One of the peculiarities of Apple is that they have set themselves down a path where every Apple developer needs to learn Objective-C (and C/C++) to build applications for their platform. The biggest characteristic of Objective-C vs…
