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Saturday May 01, 2004

Continue my continuing series on continuations?

Yes I will, but don't hold your breath. I've got a lot on my plate now. I've been starting to run in the mornings again, after my usual winter lapse, so I have had some time to think about the problem of integrating my hacked-free version of Cocoon Control Flow into a Struts application. I'll try to write up my thoughts on the topic in the next couple of days, because it may be while before I have time to code up a solution.

Dave in Java Comments[7]

Tags: Java

Go blog it on the mountain.

Tim Bray: Many of us at Sun are doing work that could change the world. We need to do a better job of telling the world. As of now, you are encouraged to tell the world about your work, without asking permission first (but please do read and follow the advice in this note). Blogging is a good way to do this...

Bravo!

Dave in Java Comments[0]

Tags: Java

Powerbook second impressions.

I've had my Powerbook for over a week now and I'm starting to get settled in. Overall, I've been very pleased with the Powerbook itself, the software that came with MacOS, and the software I've downloaded. I'm still trying to figure out what works best and I find it very useful to read what other Mac users are using and why, so here I'll document the software I've started to use.

Before I started using the Powerbook, I had assumed that I would be using the same browser and mail programs that I use on Windows, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. When I got the Powerbook, I installed Firefox and Mozilla and found that they work well and look almost exactly as the do on Windows. Generally speaking that is a good thing, but I'm in the mood to try something new and I prefer applications that get the native look-and-feel perfectly right, so I switched over to the built-in default browser and mail programs, Safari and Mail.App. I've been using them for about a week now and they both look great and work great. I'll stick with them for now.

I've been experimenting with iMovie. I imported a bunch of video clips from my digital camcorder and found it very easy to compose a video, edit out the bad spots, incude transitions between clip, and add titles and text. iMovie works very well and, at this point, I don't think I'll be needing any other video editing software. I've also been using the OmniOutliner and the OmniGraffle drawing programs. I was surprised to find these applications included with Mac OSX and very pleased with both of them. I downloaded Voodoo Pad Lite the other day and found it so useful that within hours I was paying the the $19.95 registration fee for the full version.

There are some bad points, of course. For example, I have't found any chat software nearly as good as Trillian. Fire may eventially rival Trillian, but right now it's GUI is clunky and nowhere near as full-featured. Eclipse is usable, but the fonts are so big and the new Eclipse 3.0 M8 look-and-feel is a real put-off.

Dave in Mac Comments[8]

Tags: mac

Eclipse 3.0 by July

Dave in Links Comments[0]

Tags: Links

Komu's theme.

That is a nice looking Roller theme.

Dave in Roller Comments[0]

Tags: Roller

Gentoo it is not.

Long story short: I ran into too many build failures during and after completion of my Gentoo Linux installation. I'm not sure if I have hardware problems or if Gentoo's support for my Athlon XP CPU is flakey or what, but I'm out of patience. I'm switching over to Debian.

Dave in General Comments[4]

Tags: General

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    Poll ending: Does "tweetless voting" take the fun out of TwitPoll reply w/ #no #theMoreVotesTheBetter #onlyALittle #yes http://t.co/l1NrmxI2

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    Swagger: A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON http://t.co/E8G7zBLm

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    "The best way to become a good software architect is to get old!" [To get experience] George Fairbanks #gotocph

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    "IBM even turns off Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant, on employees’ iPhones" | IBM stung by BYOD pitfalls | http://t.co/tzI1wA9s

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    RT @RobertFischer: @snoopdave While it is true that "the more votes the better", the reality is that it takes #onlyALittle fun out of Tw ...

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    Does "tweetless voting" take the fun out of TwitPolls? reply w/ #no #theMoreVotesTheBetter #onlyALittle #yes http://t.co/l1NvU7Rc

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    RT @RobertFischer: What should I work on today? reply w/ #AshlarLanguage #AppliedXianityBook #GrailsSessions #MyCalm http://t.co/Pdexn2DK

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    NetBeans to add in native JQuery support through new JavaScript editor | http://t.co/FgRYFlm4

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    schadenfreuders gonna schadenfreude

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    RT @rsarver: Awesome to finally meet Scott! “@jasoncosta: .@rsarver and I catching up with @scottmcnealy at twitter HQ! http://t.co/OZlY ...

  • icon Tweet @ 10:32PM May 20, 2012

    y shit did Mick Jagger rip it up on SNL or what?

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    RT @scottmcnealy: It's gonna be fun watching @GetTwitPolls live in action for the @EMCWorld conference this week. #WhatHappensInVegas

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    Mick Jagger's Best 'SNL' Moments | http://t.co/sKC1IfNG << awesome show!

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    : Atlassian's Big Experiment with Performance Reviews http://t.co/OM2dkYY9 the Dan Pink video at bottom of page is very relevant

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    @AmericanAir #WestEnd

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    Carolina Theatre begins Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective this weekend http://t.co/u5jBe0mt

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    .@RussB I never looked at it that way, perhaps because the authors are, in fact way cooler than me ;-) It's always been one of my fave blogs

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    .@RussB please elaborate, what's obnoxious about BoingBoing writers?

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    RT @trieloff: Ad people vs Normal people [infographic] http://t.co/7U5iqoV6

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    esome to finally meet Scott! “@jasoncosta: .@rsarver and I catching up with @scottmcnealy at twitter HQ! http://t.co/OZlY7Pq6”

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    ingvoid: On Yahoo effing Flickr: http://t.co/l7rYJPgU

  • icon Tweet @ 05:25PM May 16, 2012

    his is awesome. RT @bsletten: The Semantic Web will never happen! It’s nonsense. What’s that? Oh, never mind. http://t.co/v1SYiF0P

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    Cambridge Quad Notebook: The Best Graph Paper http://t.co/thVAwlA5

  • icon Tweet @ 08:51PM May 15, 2012

    iPod Body Mod: magnetic wrist piercings become mount for Apple iPod Nano http://t.co/VUzqVUsI

  • icon Tweet @ 08:16PM May 15, 2012

    : If Obama's the first gay president, then I'm the first gay late night host! Oh, he's not gay? Then I was being sarcastic.

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