Tuesday October 15, 2002

And a nice time was had by all...
Well, all two of us. Turns out that Jason Carreira travels to Minnesota on business regularly, so we got together for dinner. The talk ranged from family to Roller to work to Jakarta.

Hi Pippa. ( Oct 15 2002, 09:16:41 PM ) News Permalink
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Objective-C
Anthony is considering learning Objective-C (but then, he doesn't sound serious):

I am even considering taking the drastic measures of learning Objective-C and starting to program native OS X apps! I must be losing it.

You're not losing it, Anthony. Obj-C is a good language. I don't know it well, but it was my second programming language: after Perl but before Java. As you may know, Java borrows a bit from it (and Smalltalk, and ...) but not quite enough as a former coworker has complained. But then, it does show its C roots with alloc and dealloc. Hmmm, perhaps I'll get back into it, just for kicks. ( Oct 15 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Friday October 11, 2002

Gel Toothpaste, yumm

I sent an e-mail to the author of the aqua-text tutorial last night asking how to scale down my text and reduce the fuzziness. Or as Lance called it, "the gel toothpaste look." ... <snip> ... Here is the old one, and the new one.[Raible]

It still looks like gel toothpaste to me. Not that this is a bad thing, just the first thing I think of when I see the graphic. ( Oct 11 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Entertainment Permalink
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This could get fun
Grendel & Pippa (not their real names) sound like they're setting up for a real row. Perhaps this is exactly why I didn't offer to set my wife up with a blog. ( Oct 11 2002, 10:32:44 AM ) News Permalink
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Thursday October 10, 2002

Castor help offered to Jason Carreira. I once built a gui for generating mapping files, perhaps it'll be of use to you. Notice the disclaimer on this page though. I've also built up some more Castor experience working on Roller, so I'm ready to offer assistance should you want it. ( Oct 10 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Oh Jason, what have you done!
Ya know, I almost offered to set my wife up with a blog. She didn't seem all that interested though, and I internally questioned the advisability of doing such a thing. Well, Jason's wife has a blog now, and so now I know that I envy Jason his "nooners". ( Oct 10 2002, 01:21:57 PM ) News Permalink
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Friday October 04, 2002

A JDBC Cache, what's that? Well, it apparently caches the ResultSets of queries. Hmmm, interesting, might be some fun to play with. Combine this other sorts of caching and you might get an interesting overlap of concerns such that the real work is performed only infrequently. Of course, this might also get messy.... ( Oct 04 2002, 02:56:05 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Thursday October 03, 2002

Now here's a neat idea

Replicating news feeds...

Does anyone know of a means by which I can get my radio rss feeds emailed to me, or externally replicated? Radio is installed at home, and I can post to it via email (like now) but I'm starting to rely on my news aggregation more and more, and it takes a good hour every evening to go through it. I've gotten so used to using server-side apps. that the restrictions of a thick client are something of a shock to the system. Roll on the day I can afford a personal CoLo server (or my own leased line)! [Pushing the envelope]

I'd like something like this too. I'd like to replicate my news feed to my Zaurus in a HTML format that looks nice on a small screen, so I can surf my blog news on the way into the office. What'd be really cool if I could delete stuff I've read on my Zaurus and to sync it with my laptop, so I don't have to double-delete stuff when I've read it.[James Strachan]

I don't know enough about RSS or the state of readers/aggregators out there now, but is this something that we could plan for the Roller RSS aggregator (we do plan on such a beast, don't we?) ? ( Oct 03 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink
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