Archive for May, 2006

Cheryl Dyer Calligraphy Launched new website

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

My favorite calligraphy artist and wife has just launched a new website.

InfoQ.com

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Floyd Marinescu, creator of the server side, will launch a new enterprise software development news site: infoq
It’s been described on the bileblog as Floyd’s ‘it has nothing to do with TSS nor is it competition and I’m not bitter honest honest’ site.
I’ve always read TSS and still do. But for a while now […]

Giving away your live music sells CDs

Monday, May 15th, 2006

We just bought the HEM cd that has our new favorite song: Hollow (download mp3).

New Track from HEM

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Hem has a new mp3 download from the work they are doing for a new record.

WS frameworks

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

The open source web services frameworks for Java are growing in number. Here are the ones I’d like to know more about.

xfire
XINS
Sun JWSDP
Axis

Comment if you think I’m missing one I should review. I’d love to have a brown bag session with a three other people to discuss them. Each of us takes […]

For Sale

Friday, May 5th, 2006

We are selling our first home. It’s a 3 bedroom with beautiful refinished hardwood floors and trim. Good starter house. We’ll miss it.
update: sold!
 

Calligraphic

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Check out my wife’s new Calligraphy flickr site setup just for photos of her work.
 

A thought to guide us

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

“Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to […]

JavaScript memory deluge with Prototype

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

How not to do ajax stuff with prototype.
01 load page
02 user clicks button
03 Ajax.Updater loads more of the page (eval JavaScript option set to true)
04 the new parts of the page contain JavaScript code which dynamically registers via Event.observe new functions to buttons on the new part of the page
05 user clicks new button
06 repeat […]

Global Dimming

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Now we have evidence of global dimming. Global warming might be hard to prove because the real issue is that Global dimming and Global warming are happening at the same time. We will fix dimming at the risk of feeling the full force of warming.
I remember when I was a kid and […]

google pushes firefox

Monday, May 1st, 2006

I just visited google.com with IE. I noticed that they have an “ad” for the Firefox Google toolbar under the search form. Funny that they would push the Firefox Google toolbar ad to someone visiting the site with an IE browser.