Archive for May, 2005
Well, we’re not a dot com, but we (GenoLogics Life Sciences Software) did just move into very nice new office di
gs. Of course it wasn’t the first thing we spent the VC money on so I guess that drops us from the .com designation.
It’s been an interesting two years, seen the company [...]
Went to Sun’s Code Maneuvers 05 Session last Monday in Vancouver, B.C.
I’ve included notes on some of the talks below. It was alright, nothing too spectular or ground breaking for me but the overviews provided were beneficial
to others in my group.
The following notes are unfiltered. I didn’t have my laptop on at [...]
I’ve added a Wikipedia entry about Metawork.
I agree with Rory Blyth that Metawork should be defined as “the work that y
ou have to do in order to get your real work done.”
I’ve been bombarded with metawork the past two months, you know its bad when your boss has also coined the term ‘metawork’. [...]
Can’t help but comment on the fact that a fellow Victorian won the NBA MVP. Always good to see the underdog pull through.
Congratuations Steve and go Suns!
On the flip side, I also admire Mark Cuban for what he’s done as a technologist and the type of person he is (his ownership antics are only [...]
I recently got asked a question about how to potentially combine the following three fields into a meaningful occupation or career:
* personal software
* programming tools
* data mining
– My Response –
I’m not really an expert in any particular field but I [...]
I should prefix by a statement that I’m not a photographer. I don’t really take random pictures of flowers or the girl next door. However, I’m a technoph
ile and like my toys.
I feel its time to replace my crappy old school digital camera (which at least had 3x optical zoom) with something a [...]
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Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill.
Signup for some random service on the internet
Receive a confirmation email with your account information
or
Forget a password for some random service ...
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Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...
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Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...
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An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups.
Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...
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Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously).
Not quite sure how ...
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