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Great way to waste time if you happened to get to this page from google and not to much more useful old fashioned simple HTML page with kinds of info i need: documentation (just API - could be more but still OK) and release notes and nothing more!

created sun mar 02 2003 7:40pm est [2003/3/2 19:40 EST] permalink

Small, Bigger, and Very Big World

If I could go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I'd tell him would be to stick his head up and look around. I didn't really grasp it at the time, but the whole world we lived in was as fake as a twinkie. Not just school, but the entire town. Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children.

created mon mar 03 2003 11:40pm est [2003/3/3 23:40 EST] permalink

Nightmare Nightware

created wed mar 03 2003 11:40am est [2003/3/3 11:40 EST] permalink

adding aspects to XML parser

created wed mar 03 2003 3am est [2003/3/3 EST] permalink

should WSDL die?

<s:element operations:operation="ReserveSeatVariant1" operations:direction="input" name="ReserveSeatVariant1Input" ref="ReserveSeatInput" />

i hardly can see (though it can change later ..) how we can get anything to interoperate when we will start to add extensions to XSD - it is already hard to use without extending it and i have serious doubts that such annotated XSD will be XSLT transformable to WSDL - just too much of expression power is in XSD to make this task challenging and if XSD+WS starts to be used people will soon start to use all features of XSD such as choice and how would one to get that transformed back to WSDL ???

created fri mar 7 2003 11:50pm est [2003/3/7 23:50 EST] permalink

How to get it all done?

created mon mar 10 2003 1:50am est [2003/3/10 1:50 EST] permalink

How to get it all done (continued)?

Benefactor of mankind--thank you! (Score:4, Funny)
by EnlightenmentFan (617608) on Tuesday January 28, @02:29PM (#5176294)
(http://betsydevine.weblogger.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday January 21, @01:55PM)

Now I can set up computer #1 to play an infinite, obsessive
game of Tetris on computer #2, leaving me free at last to sit
down at computer #3 and get some work done. The $200 for
webcam and other hardware is cheap for an invention like this,
with the revolutionary potential of the wheel, or fire, or
even pizza delivery.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

and even more optimistic conclusion: those fast CPUs we have can be actually used to solve old problems:

Now, in 2003, technology (particularly CPU speed) has reached
a level that makes finishing this particular project almost
trivial.  Recently I have had some free time, and I am
going through some of my oldest personal projects and
finishing those that can be finished -- just so I can
have some closure.

when i was reading article i reloaded page and it seems that author had to shut it down because of 50x higher fees when over limit and huge traffic generated by some dead brain stupid cracker ...

created tue mar 11 2003 11:50pm est [2003/3/11 23:50 EST] permalink

debugging past

created thu mar 13 2003 11:55pm est [2003/3/13 23:55 EST] permalink

exploring time travel and meeting myself one minute older

what if time travel happened not on long range but minutes or days scale, would i call myself Friday me or tomorrow Saturday me (what is tomorrow when time travel is possible ...)

this is explored in my all time favorite Lem short story 7th Voyage (local cached copy) from "Star Diaries of Ijon Tichy"

we typically imagine space exploration to be done by group of serious people and treated as serious topic but what if the group consists mostly of you at different ages:

(...) Meanwhile the arguments continued. The sight of such inaction, such wasting of precious time, drove me to despair, while the rocket rushed blindly on, straight ahead, plunging every now and then into another gravitational vortex. At last the ones wearing spacesuits started slugging it out with the ones who were not. I tried to introduce some sort of order into that absolute chaos and finally, after superhuman efforts, succeeded in organizing something that resembled a meeting, in which the one from next year--having seniority--was elected chairman by acclamation.
We then appointed an elective committee, a nominating committee, and a committee for new business, and four of us from next month were made sergeants at arms. But in the mean time we had passed through a negative vortex, which cut our number in half, so that on the very first ballot we lacked a quorum, and had to change the bylaws before proceeding to vote on the candidates for rudder-repairer. The map indicated the approach of still other vortices, and these undid all that we had accomplished so far: first the candidates already chosen disappeared, and then the Tuesday me showed up with the Friday me, who had his head wrapped in a towel, and they created a shameful scene. Upon passage through a particularly strong positive vortex we hardly fit in the cabin and corridor, and opening the hatch was out of the question--there simply wasn't room. But the worst of it was, these time displacements were in creasing in amplitude, a few grayhaired me's had already appeared, and here and there I even caught a glimpse of the close-cropped heads of children, that is of myself, of course--or rather--myselves from the halcyon days of boyhood.
I really can't recall whether I was still the Sunday me, or had already turned into the Monday me. Not that it made any difference. The children sobbed that they were being squashed in the crowd, and called for their mommy; the chairman--the Tichy from next year--let out a string of curses, because the Wednesday me, who had crawled under the bed in a futile search for chocolate, bit him in the leg when he accidentally stepped on the latter's finger. I saw that all this would end badly, particularly now as here and there gray beards were turning up. (...)

read to find out how multiple Tichys were saved by ...

created fri mar 14 2003 12:31pm est [2003/3/14 12:31 EST] permalink

generics with constraints

interface Comparable
{
        boolean equals(Object x);
        boolean less(Object x);
}

interface Set<A implements Comparable>
{
        boolean contains(A x);
        Set<A> include(A x);
}

good that codeguide supports them and there is this nice page on how to integrate generics compiler with ANT ...

but i see how it works in real programs when it is freely available and distributable in next JDK ...

created fri mar 14 2003 12:40pm est [2003/3/14 12:40 EST] permalink

funny, funny, funny dancing skeletons

created fri mar 21 2003 4:40pm est [2003/3/21 16:40 EST] permalink

How much metadata do YOU create?

read more on Metacrap (local cached copy)

created sun mar 30 2003 2:30pm cst [2003/3/30 14:30 CST] permalink

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