Monday, 8 July 2002

Bugger Ran into another bug in Commons HTTP Client, one that is in Apache's bug tracker, and has been for a couple of months. Errr. Do I a) fix the bug and send diffs to Apache, or b) rewrite my code to work using the pure java.net classes? Bugger. 6:02:35 PM

Alternative News Aggregators All systems ready, prepare for take-off But I will still be using Radio as my news aggregator, or until I find a replacement for that too. Maybe a future Movable Type feature could be a news aggregator? [pberry: Radio Edition] A Perl news aggregator: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ A Python news aggregator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerkat/ Of course, I want a Java based news aggregator myself, but that is because I'm a masochist ;) 3:57:47 PM

Haskellicious Being from UNSW and having used Haskell - it's ugly. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Did I mention frustrating? Give me Java anyday [rebelutionary] Why? I am a masochistic programming language polygot, I am getting cranky refactoring collections-based java code, and hoping that generic java sees the light of day soon... That, and I enjoy the pain that only declaritive programming can give. On a side note, I doubt I would ever actually do commercial work in Haskell. 3:52:19 PM

Modular Verification Influence of Software Module Systems on Modular Verification. The Influence of Software Module Systems on Modular Verification, H. Li (Brown University), K. Fisler (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and S. Krishnamurthi (Brown University). Proceedings of the 9th SPIN Workshop Grenoble, France. [Lambda the Ultimate] Keeping this for my own link collection. 2:11:55 PM

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth This was a fascinating read, highly recommended. [Simon Fell] Another book to read! :) 1:22:47 PM

GCJ + Eclipse GCC 3.0 and Java. "The GNU Compiler for the Java(TM) language (GCJ) is now integrated and supported, including the run-time library containing most common non-GUI Java classes, a bytecode interpreter, and the Boehm conservative garbage collector. Many bugs have been fixed. GCJ can compile Java source or Java bytecodes to either native code or Java class files, and supports native methods written in either the standard JNI or the more efficient and convenient CNI." [Patrick Logan's Radio Weblog] I wonder if it will be possible to use GCJ to build native win32 binaries with Eclipse's windowing toolkit? 1:21:22 PM

Femme Fatales required for Economic Success RATIONALITY IS BREAKING OUT [InstaPundit] When designing an evolutionary system, remember to evolve the success evaluation functions along with the potential solutions. You will wind up with a self-tuning co-evolving system. 1:19:27 PM

Personal Finance for Dummies Taking Back the Money Supply. Even as fed rates have fallen, credit card rates have risen. Private debt continues to skyrocket, and personal savings is at an all time low. Is it a case of bankers wringing the American people dry? Is it time to take back the money supply? [kuro5hin.org] A proposal for a new entrant in the highly lucrative personal finance region. Having had a quick look at some of the material floating around, there are massive barriers to entry into these market places - with good reason. Personal Finance is a very well paying corner of the world. 1:15:24 PM

Sugar makes you fat Does fat make you fat?. Being fat sucks. I've always been a few pounds heavier than I wanted to be, and I've always been on a lose-weight-then-gain-back-more scallop curve. I'm not alone. Doc blogged that he was the heaviest he'd ever been; Dave just had a heart-attack major heart surgery (thanks, Dave!). Go to a tech or science fiction conference, and at every turn you meet people who are rounder than they'd like to be; as Patrick Nielsen Hayden writes, "You can't miss me at any gathering of science fiction people. I'm the middle-aged pudgy guy with a beard." [Boing Boing Blog] This is all really about the obvious, and wrong, assumption stated in the teaser. Sugar makes you fat. Which is funny, because most "low-fat" foods have actually been loaded with various sugars so that you will still enjoy eating it. Sad, but true. 11:46:54 AM

Haskell is cool Declarative Event-Oriented Programming. Another interesting link from Jon (who should become an editor). Thanks! [Lambda the Ultimate] Most cute. It's all haskell based, which I am contemplating taking a year or two off sometime to play with. Probably back at UNSW as they seem to have collected most of the haskell-heads in Sydney into one location. 11:35:08 AM

TradingRoom.com.au Spin Out - Brett is using OSCache on one of F2's websites. (I'm guessing it's the AFR) [rebelutionary] Heh. Actually it was http://www.tradingroom.com.au/ ... which was a consortia build project between F2 and Macquarie Bank. The consortia fell apart when Macquarie looked at the actual number of stock trades that were actually funneled through the site. Needless to say, the number of trades wasn't going to pay for the build costs. So it would seem that the website has stayed where we left it. It still has the same l&f. We built that site over 12 months ago. More like 15 - 16 months ago. Heh. 10:09:19 AM

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