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alan.blog-city.com
- Java 5 dies - mourning a revolution
Java5 officially dies today. Let us mourn the passing of a revolution in Java development and look at the legacy he leaves us.
Published: 30 October 2009, Friday 11:54 AM - Amazon takes MySQL to the cloud; or have they?
Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone.
Published: 27 October 2009, Tuesday 03:43 AM - Engadget claims "biggest disasters in the history of cloud computing"
Engadget falls into the same trap that many bloggers/journalists have; not everything that runs in a browser is cloud computing. One server fault does not mark the end of cloud computing. It does leave many asking what cloud computing is.
Published: 12 October 2009, Monday 10:35 AM
kirk.blog-city.com
- Proof that Java is still the fasted language and other random thoughts
A few years back Jack released a newsletter on April 1st that proclaimed Java as the fasted language ever. In that news letter to pointed out "stunning and irrefutable" evidence to support his claim. The email we received in response to tha
Published: 19 October 2009, Monday 03:28 AM - awk????
It's been a while since I've used awk and like all things that are un-used, they tend to get a bit rusty. Today I needed to parse a column out of a text file and the formatting was very uneven to the put that cut wasn't going to.. well...
Published: 13 October 2009, Tuesday 04:06 AM - Monty Hall Revisited
A few weeks ago while sitting on a sunny Greek island I got into a conversation with a friend about the Monty Hall Problem. During the conversation I came up with a hand waving explanation that seemed to satisfy him that the correct solution was to a
Published: 10 October 2009, Saturday 07:07 AM
epesh.blog-city.com
- Microsoft, I hate you.
Oh, Microsoft... I hate you. It's nothing personal, really, just pure resentment that you screw me over so badly in the name of providing features for a set of gamers.
Published: 24 September 2007, Monday 08:35 AM - Cutlassian Privateers, wooooo
Throwing the shout-out to the Cutlassian Privateers: yo ho ho and a bottle of... um...
Published: 22 August 2007, Wednesday 08:42 PM - Changing paradigms from "programmer" to ... "multi-programmer"
As enterprise programmers, we don't "program" quite so much any more. What we do is write systems, fairly small units that leverage libraries to do stuff.
Published: 6 June 2007, Wednesday 04:25 AM