Joshua Jacobs
Even if this is an ad for a camera, it’s still very cool. Makes you really think about how fast time passes…
Google Wave looks really amazing for collaboration. And Google has decided to open source this software. Here’s the preview video.
I’ve been spending a lot of time programming lately, trying to get everything running in a CI server (http://hudson.dev.java.net/) along with the rest of my day and night job. Therefore I got particular enjoyment from the following link and thought it worth passing along.
Monopolies are never a good thing:
Google down – Computerworld Blogs.
it was estimated that 5% of the Internet was unavailable or slow. While still relatively small, it does make Google’s growing significance in the Internet an issue
If you want a trip down memory lane, and a few minutes of entertainment from a couple amateurs, you might enjoy a movie Tony Barrese posted on YouTube today. The first part is a star wars re-enactment created by Tony. The second part is a stop-action animation Tony and I created in 1995. The [...]
This weekend I spent a lot of time with the kids while Anne was practicing Qi-Gong with a visiting taoist master. (I met him only briefly, and figured he was around 65 or 70, but Anne later told me he’s 91! His master lived to 116. Maybe I should find a babysitter and start practicing [...]
In my quest for increased sanity and simplicity, I’m always thinking about how to be a better project manager. My latest innovation was inspired by Sione Aeschliman of Marylhurst University. Each week she sends email to the stakeholders of a project for which I am the developer. The email is a succinct summary of the [...]
For years I’ve hosted Angel LMS, and each year it has become a little more cumbersome and my clients have been a little more unhappy.
Now Blackboard has announced a “merger”. But that must really be more of an aquisition. So it goes.
I wonder if this will be a good thing for the open [...]
While creating a time sheet for a client today I encountered a problem I’ve seen in the past: how to convert a time value to a decimal in excel. For some reason, the time tracking tool I use, paymo, doesn’t include time spent on a task, just the start and end dates.
Here’s [...]
Today I was generating JavaDoc from withing IntelliJ idea, and I saw this error:
javadoc: error – Illegal package name: “”
I tracked it down here: http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-11773 and discovered it was the result of spaces in the name of paths in the class path. IMHO idea should be escaping spaces. But it doesn’t.
My [...]
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