Archive for January, 2007

I spent most of today debugging some performance problems we’re having in our application. It’s fun stuff, I really enjoy it. Lately it’s been a lot of threading work with Swing which is a fairly interesting area to play in. It’s amazing what kind of perceived performance improvements you can make by [...]

Over the past few weeks I’ve undertaken a bit of an experiment.
The goal was simple enough, stop going to any notable news site (abcnews, cnn, cbc, espn, google news, etc.) and instead only receive their content via respective RSS feeds (click-throughs to stories would still obviously take me to an external site).
It really wasn’t that [...]

I was just about to go to bed when I got an email from the folks at Scrybe inviting me into their beta (I suspect I applied awhile back and they’re just clearing through a backlog now).
The launch details are here. Their blog is also here.
I just logged in and played around with it for [...]

I’ve been using the latest del.icio.us plugin for awhile with Firefox 2.x and have been quite impressed.
Although my experiences have been largely positive I did have to start with a new account b/c my previous one suffered from poor tag choices (and del.icio.us didn’t provide much in the way of batch modifications at the time).
If [...]

Caught this over on techcrunch.
I actually had the akismet wordpress plugin installed for a long time but hadn’t gotten around to enabling it until now. I forgot I had a wordpress.com account and it needs a wordpress.com API key to function.
Either way, it’s active now and right away caught 30 comment spams. I’ve [...]

Sam Ruby has a good overview of OpenID (wikipedia) and the steps required to start identifying yourself. I personally don’t know much about it but I’m intrigued to learn more after reading some of the recent press about it.
OpenID For Non-Superusers
OpenID Screencast
I’ve claimed my identity and this blog on technorati using it’s OpenID interface. [...]

From toysrus.com

Great system. Very entertaining. Low learning curve. Virtual console has some good classic games.
This is an okay system. First of all, it is very hard to use, and especially hard to get used too, especially if you have been using a classic shape controller beforehand. The graphics are okay, but what could you expect [...]

I was originally planning on blogging about attracting top talent and the recent changes we’ve made to our hiring process….but I’m in the process of drinking a tasty home-made smoothie and thought my time would be better spent singing the virtues of the Magic Bullet. Actually my buddy Glenn just blogged about making soup [...]

I had a few days off from work over the holidays and decided to do a bit of an investigation into Gavin King’s new web framework, Seam.
My recent background has predominantly been in the J2EE space (Spring + Hibernate 3.0/3.2) but fronted with a thick Swing application as opposed to the typical web application. [...]

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Iron Man

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Green Lantern

70%

Hulk

65%

Spider-Man

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Catwoman

60%

Superman

60%

Robin

45%

Wonder Woman

43%

Supergirl

43%

Batman

30%

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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 ...

  • 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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