Join Us in the Mediterranean in November (14-Jun-2004; 3.6K)
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"November 6, 2004"
"November 6, 2004"
08/16/2004 09:56 PMThis Week in Perl 6, November 9 - 15
2004
This Week in Perl 6, November 9 - 15
2004
12/19/2004 03:27 PMMatt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the Parrot list
discussing continuations and the unchanging calling conventions, the
Perl 6 folks discussing exports, and the Perl 6 Compiler list still
strangely quiet.
This Fortnight in Perl 6, November 16-30
2004
This Fortnight in Perl 6, November 16-30
2004
12/19/2004 03:27 PMMatt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the introduction
of the Parrot Grammar Engine!
This Week in Perl 6, November 2 - 8 2004
This Week in Perl 6, November 2 - 8 2004
12/19/2004 03:27 PMMatt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the Parrot folks
talking about optimizations not to apply yet, the Perl 6 people
receiving updated Synopses and Apocalypses, and the Perl 6 Internals
team being strangely quiet.
Macs in the Mediterranean? Malta?
Macs in the Mediterranean? Malta?
01/23/2004 02:23 PMPhotoshop Techniques and Photo Safari - May 16 to 22, 2004
One week of Macs, photography tips, and five days of digital camera
safaris. BIG fun, fellow mac-heads, expert instruction, and stunning
settings to use your camera.--
www.TechieTours.com
Like Pixels? Check out
MacDesignComdex Cancels November 2004 Convention
Comdex Cancels November 2004 Convention
06/23/2004 06:54 PMWashington Post Jun 23 2004 10:53PM GMT
Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean
World
Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean
World
12/28/2003 10:05 AMAncient Near East and the Mediterranean Worldhttp://www.lib.uchic
ago.edu/e/dl/proj/neh2"...The University of Chicago
Library has completed a project that preserves deteriorated research
materials relating to the history, art and archaeology of the ancient
Near East and the ancient Mediterranean world. Materials published
between 1850 and 1950 were drawn from the Library's outstanding
Ancient Near East and Classics Collections. The
Library
addressed the preservation and access needs of the collections using
three options: microfilming of 2,420 volumes, rebinding and providing
enclosures for 6,530 volumes and digitizing thirty-five
volumes...Preserved materials relate to the study of the ancient Near
East and cover such topics as the archaeology, art, history, language,
law, and religions of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Nubia, Persia,
and other ancient peoples of Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent.
Classics materials span the time from the rise of Bronze Age Aegean
culture through the period in the Middle Ages and include volumes
relating to the history, art and archaeology of the classical world."
Update 1: Comdex Cancels November 2004
Convention
Update 1: Comdex Cancels November 2004
Convention
06/24/2004 01:38 AMForbes Jun 24 2004 5:28AM GMT
"this should give you pause as you head
to the polls in November 2004 "
"this should give you pause as you head
to the polls in November 2004 "
12/25/2003 08:59 PMMac Users Join the "A" List
(26-Jan-2004; 1.5K)
Mac Users Join the "A" List
(26-Jan-2004; 1.5K)
01/26/2004 09:50 PMCNN.com - Wanted: An accordionist to
join the U.S. Air Force - Jul 12, 2004
CNN.com - Wanted: An accordionist to
join the U.S. Air Force - Jul 12, 2004
07/13/2004 08:23 AMThere's a great job out there awaiting an accordion player. The catch:
Six weeks in boot camp .. Calling all accordianists .. with accordion
music
cnn.com/2004/US/07/12/wanted.accordionist.ap/index.html
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Will the 2004 Election Be Called Off?
Why Three Out of Four Experts Predict a
Terrorist Attack by November - Maureen
Farrell at BuzzFlash.com
Will the 2004 Election Be Called Off?
Why Three Out of Four Experts Predict a
Terrorist Attack by November - Maureen
Farrell at BuzzFlash.com
04/12/2004 03:42 AMCNN.com - Star names join Python on
Broadway - Jul 7, 2004
CNN.com - Star names join Python on
Broadway - Jul 7, 2004
07/08/2004 09:03 PMSony Invites you to Join the Next
Generation at CeBIT 2004
Sony Invites you to Join the Next
Generation at CeBIT 2004
03/06/2004 01:54 AMBelga Direct Press Releases Mar 1 2004 3:49PM GMT
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives
11/04/2003 08:44 AMmodified a transcript of President Bush's remarks .. scrubbing its
transcripts .. Josh
Marshall
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_11_02.html#002160<
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"November"
"November"
06/25/2004 10:29 AMNovember Top 10
November Top 10
12/09/2002 02:07 AMCNET Dec 9 2002 1:04AM ET
The Fog that was November
The Fog that was November
12/02/2003 01:26 AM Most every day of November was dark, rainy, foggy and, well, dark. :)
Hopefully December will at least bring...
Where will you be in November?
Where will you be in November?
06/16/2004 06:14 PMI know where I'll be November 7, 2004: in New York City running the
ING New York City Marathon! The lottery results have been posted and
for once I've gotten lucky with a lottery and I'm in. Woo hoo! Now
this means my running and training must get much more serious. But
that's OK because I've always wanted to run a marathon, and the NYC
marathon looks to be really fun. As fun as 26 miles can be, that is.
Five bridges, five boroughs, and more than two million spectators make
the ING New York City Marathon a race like no other.
Maybe I'll even "marablog" -- blog as I run. ;)
November 3rd Theses
November 3rd Theses
12/19/2004 03:12 PMMy brother Adam and some
collaborators have put together 19 theses on the future of the
Democratic Party. They plan to launch them in a provocative way on
Monday.
For those of you know don't know, Adam is the former president of
the Sierra Club and a grassroots activist who runs a group called
Common Assets. The these are well worth reading for those of us
looking to find a new direction for Democatic politics in light of
this year's Presidential election.
W3C Talks in November
W3C Talks in November
10/31/2003 10:42 PM2003-11-01: Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available
as an RSS channel. (News archive)
November Zeitgeist
November Zeitgeist
12/06/2003 09:49 AMHere's how people found my site for the month of November. 2840
different keyphrases Search Percent madthumb 599 5.9 %...
November in Vegas
November in Vegas
10/28/2003 11:09 PMHere we are, in the middle of October already, and I have no idea what
I'm going to "be" for Halloween. I haven't even had time to watch The
Nightmare Before Christmas yet! I'll be headed to Las Vegas a month
from today for both APCUG and Apachecon. They've each asked me to
present my position on RSS, so I'll be happy to oblige. Maybe I'll
dress up as an orange XML button on the 31st? Nah, that's too friggin'
scary. What about Gozer? Or a Doozer? Or a menu like the Chooser?...
November 03, 2003
November 03, 2003
11/03/2003 02:32 PM
Fog Creek's website has been redone to use our new Sam
Sherwood-designed logo. The cutting edge page design is thanks to
superstar web designer Dave
Shea, famous for the CSS
garden and the eye-popping new Mozilla home page,
with additional programming and graphics by Fog Creek's own Dmitri
Kalmar. It's about 99% standards-compliant (with the exception a
couple of stray FONT tags left over from old content that hasn't been
updated... oh the horror!).
The November Builder.com top 10
The November Builder.com top 10
12/07/2002 03:26 AMCNET Dec 7 2002 2:14AM ET
Marching to November
Marching to November
08/22/2004 03:43 PMWeekly Standard: GOP is trying to tear Kerry down because of their own
lack of faith in Bush .. The ever-nimble Weekly Standard scrambles up
the hawser while washing their paws .. Catch of the
Day
weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/493kldgc.
asp?pg=1
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November 06, 2003
November 06, 2003
11/07/2003 12:56 AM
Two questions and a font
Question one, for you telecom mavens out there. If you buy DSL
service in New York from Covad, aren't they just going to get Verizon
to install the actual DSL circuit? If so... why is it cheaper to get
it from Covad?
Yes, we seem to be in the market for a new DSL provider. And I'm
tired of playing the blame game where your DSL provider blames
everything on Verizon and Verizon blames everything on the DSL
provider, so I'd be willing to pay the monopoly tax if it meant when
our DSL went down there was nobody left to blame. If you know whether
Covad uses Verizon, post an answer here.
Question two, for you reliable SQL Server mavens out there. Suppose
I wanted to build a Win2K-based web service using SQL Server to store
the data. But I'm a reliability nut. So obviously I'll use industrial
strength servers with RAID, two power supplies and network cards, etc,
and they'll live in secure
colocation facilities.
To further minimize failure points, I'll have a hot backup. But the
twist is that I figured as long as I'm paying for a hot backup, it
would be more reliable if it was somewhere else, say, on the other
coast.
So here's the plan I'm working on. Server A in New York, with IIS
and SQL Server. Server B in Vancouver, with IIS and SQL Server. Server
A is somehow "writing through" any database changes to server B. I
know I can do this with transaction log shipping; is this
a good way to do it? Is there a better way?
Then if Server A blows up, I simply ask my ISP to route the packets
intended for Server A to Server B. (I assume they can do this if it's
their backbone).
What do you think of this
scheme?
Might I please kindly request in advance that you do
not suggest using Linux instead of Windows 2003. Yes, I concede that
Linux is "more secure," but not when I'm the one pushing the buttons.
Last time a flaw was discovered in Windows, it took me two clicks to
patch it. Last time a flaw was discovered in SSH, it took me four
hours of compiling and messing around to patch it. I apologize but I
don't have the skilz to keep a Linux box secure, so please, let's talk
about how to make this particular configuration reliable, not
about whether Linux is a better OS than Windows. Or, actually, if you
do want to talk about whether Linux is more secure than Windows, do so
here.
And a font
Back in the days when I did Mac development (System 6) the biggest
monitors available for the Mac were maybe 9", and the only way to see
a reasonable amount of code on screen was to use a tiny font. Now that
I have two 18" LCD panels, the only way to see a reasonable amount of
code on screen is to use a tiny font. The world is awash in lovely
TrueType fonts but none of them are monospaced, which is a nuisance
for programming because things which should line up won't.
Fortunately, I have found ProFont, and all
is well again.
November 07, 2003
November 07, 2003
11/10/2003 11:08 PM
Toronto
group forming. Any others?
November games
November games
11/06/2003 01:26 PMChicago Tribune Nov 6 2003 12:54PM ET
"I CANNOT SUPPORT HIM IN NOVEMBER."
"I CANNOT SUPPORT HIM IN NOVEMBER."
09/04/2004 02:46 AMNovember 30, 2003
November 30, 2003
12/02/2003 01:29 AM
I spent the long weekend grinding through the backlog of Joel on
Software translations. There are a bunch of new articles in various
languages including new sections for Esperanto and Greek. All in all
there are 264 translations in progress in 32 languages thanks to 242
volunteers around the world. 177 translations are complete and have
already been posted.
There are a few articles, already translated, which just need copy
editors before I can post them. If you read and write one of these
languages fluently and are willing to help out, I'd really appreciate
it! What's involved is just looking for typos and errors and improving
the translation wherever possible. If I don't find anyone to edit the
articles I will probably just go ahead and post them unedited but it
would be nice to have a second set of eyes improving the quality of
the translations.
Languages I need editors for: Chinese (Trad), Esperanto, Estonian,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese (Port.), Russian,
Swedish, and Tamil.
A frequently asked question: why bother with these translations?
Surely any real programmer knows English! And my frequently answered
answer: First of all, not every programmer knows English, and if they
do, they may not know it that well, so they may not really enjoy
reading things written in English if they don't have to. Second, even
if the programmers have learned enough English to decipher online
documentation, their pointy-haired bosses from management may not
have.
Another frequent question: why not just use Babelfish or Google
Language Tools or another similar translation tool? Answer: They are
seriously little. You cannot include/understand simply the exit. Er,
what I meant to say was, they are seriously inadequate. The quality of
translations produced by automatic software is so horrible that you
really can't understand the output. Try asking Google to translate http://french.joelonsoftware.c
om from French to English for some real howlers. "Then why does
nobody make planning? Two principal reasons. Firstly, it is really
difficult. Secondly, nobody believes that that is worth the sorrow of
it. Why give so much difficulty to be worked on a planning if it is
known that it will not be correct?"
November 14, 2003
November 14, 2003
11/14/2003 07:32 PM
Time for the next Book of the Month.
Almost any argument about managing the software development process
inevitably deteriorates into anecdote-ping-pong. “We did wawa
and everyone quit.”
“Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Company X? They wawa
regularly and their stock is up 20%!”
If you have even the slightest bit of common sense, you should ask:
“Where's the data? If I'm going to switch to Intense Programming
I want to see proof that the extra money spent on dog kennels and bird
cages is going to pay for itself in increased programmer self-esteem.
Show me hard data!”
And, of course, we have none.
One set of people will tell you you gotta
have private offices with walls and a door that closes. Another
set of extremos will tell you everyone has to be in a room together,
shoulder-to-shoulder. Neither of them have any hard data whatsoever,
where by “hard data” I mean “data that wouldn't be
laughed out of a sixth-grade science classroom.” The truth is,
you can't honestly compare the productivity of two software teams
unless they are trying to build exactly the same thing under exactly
the same circumstances with the exact same human individuals,
who have been somehow cloned so they don't learn anything the first
time through the experiment.
Tom DeMarco was so frustrated at the inherent impossibility of
providing any kind of hard data that he went so far as to write a novel in which he fantasizes about a bizarre land in
which programmers are so cheap you actually can do
experiments where, say, half the people have offices and half the
people have cubicles.
But we don't have the data. We don't have any data. You can give us
anecdotes left and right about how methodology X worked or didn't
work, but you can't prove that when it worked it wasn't just because
of one really, really good programmer on the team, and you can't prove
that when it failed is wasn't just because the company was in the
process of going bankrupt and everybody was too demoralized to do
anything at all, Aeron chairs notwithstanding.
But don't give up hope. We
do have the collective wisdom of fifty years of building
software to draw from. Or at least, it's somewhere. Your typical
startup with three pals from college may not exactly have the
collective wisdom, so they're going to reinvent things from scratch
that IBM figured out in 1961, or go bankrupt failing to reinvent them.
Too bad, because they could have read Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L.
Glass, the best summary of what the software profession should have
agreed upon by now. Here are just a few examples from the 55 facts and
10 fallacies in the book:
- The most important factor in software work is
not the tools and techniques used by the programmers, but
rather the quality of the programmers themselves.
- Adding people to a late project makes it later.
- Reuse-in-the-small (libraries of subroutines) began
nearly 50 years ago and is a well-solved problem.
- Reuse-in-the-large (components) remains a mostly
unsolved problem, even though everyone agrees it is important and
desirable.
You can read the others in the table of
contents on Amazon. One of the best things about the book is that
it has sources for each fact and fallacy, so you can go back and
figure out why we collectively believe that, say, code
inspection is valuable but cannot and should not replace testing. This
is bound to be particularly helpful when you need ammunition for your
arguments with people in suits making absurd demands (“Can we
make a baby in 1 month if we hire 9 mothers?”).
rfp (13 November 2002)
rfp (13 November 2002)
11/13/2002 12:01 PM[11 am] The discussion being generated by ALA’s Flash Satay is
as intriguing as the article itself. Topics include alternate methods
that work and validate, and
November 22, 2003
November 22, 2003
12/02/2003 01:29 AM
Tidbits
My incoming spam is running at over 200 junk emails a day, but SpamBayes is catching
them all, with virtually no false positives. Bayesian filtering,
invented by Paul Graham and available in many open source
implementations, is the best answer yet.
next (27 November 2002)
next (27 November 2002)
12/01/2002 11:58 AM[4 pm] Years ago we attended a focus group. Participants were divided
into two categories we’ll call Quitters and Crackheads. Quitters
had switched to a competitor’s
mtm (6 November 2002)
mtm (6 November 2002)
11/06/2002 08:26 AM[7 am] Josh Davis has been added to today’s free Meet the Makers
event in NYC, which also features Hillman Curtis, Eric Meyer, and your
Getting ready for November 24th
Getting ready for November 24th
11/13/2003 11:15 AMOf course, just because the cellphone companies have accepted number
portability doesn't mean switching that numbers is going to be easy,
and today's New York Times has an article about all the preparations
that are being made for November 24th, the first day the new rules go
into effect. One analyst is even predicting that 30 percent of
attempts to transfer numbers will actually fail, and it could hours or
days for a switch to be finalized. Read...
Stanford: Tuesday, November 30
Stanford: Tuesday, November 30
02/05/2005 09:37 PMI decide to visit Lessig’s class again; this time I get Lessig
himself. Before class begins, he chats with the…
Most virulent worms of November
Most virulent worms of November
12/04/2003 08:28 AMvnunet.com Dec 4 2003 7:14AM ET
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