Archive for October, 2006

The following may not be of interest to you unless you were an avid computer gamer in the early 1990’s.
For those that don’t know CGW is short for Computer Gaming World, a popular gaming mag from an era where games meant something to the consumer aka. me.
Ok ok, don’t get me wrong, games still mean [...]

Last week the IT guy at work (whom I’ve helped out previously and have a good relationship with) asked me if I’d be interested in being a guinea pig for some new laptops.
Being the technology-inclined person that I am, I agreed. Don’t get me wrong, my previous laptop wasn’t too bad, Dell d610 w/ [...]

The last week or so I’ve spent doing some performance optimizations on our application in preparation for a data-intensive demo.
Everything was going well, caught some of the low hanging fruit (running things on the EDT, not batching requests, retrieving too much data, etc) but ran into a brick wall when trying to do a contains [...]




  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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