As a quick note to self, I used the following Ant build.xml file in 2014 to build my Wikipedia Reader client application on Mac OS X 10.9 with Java 7.x:
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 283)
The Nasdaq exchange has hit a wall recently. I keep looking at stocks to invest in, and then I think, “Not right now.” Some times the best thing you can do with your money is nothing.
This conference, coming up in Boulder, Colorado in nine days, looks good.
I sure hope Jony Ive gets involved in Mac OS X 10.10. I have the feeling whoever made design changes starting with Mac OS X 10.7 was involved with Windows Vista (which means I think that there were some dumb decisions).
This Siberian Husky might look mean, but if you’ve ever had one, you can tell that he (or she) is probably just falling asleep.
Sencha Touch seems to have some problems with its textareafield, especially with sizing and resizing the height in a form. The best solutions I’ve found so far are:
An interesting story on the Scala phrase, “flatMap that sh*t”, from SO.
I still have a hard time finding what I want on the Sencha website, so I’m trying to add links here to make their documentation and examples easier for me to find. Here are two examples of the charts and graphs that they offer. This first set of Sencha chart examples comes from this link:
I just found these “Numbers every programmer should know” in an email I sent to myself a few years ago. I don’t remember the original source of the content, but I know they come from a talk titled “Building Software Systems at Google and Lessons Learned”, by a person named Jeffrey Dean, at Stanford:
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns Branch mispredict 5 ns L2 cache reference 7 ns Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns Main memory reference 100 ns Compress 1K bytes w/ cheap algorithm 3,000 ns Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network 20,000 ns Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns Disk seek 10,000,000 ns Read 1 MB sequentially from disk 20,000,000 ns Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA 150,000,000 ns
In the Chugach mountains, Alaska. Photo from Abe Blair’s Facebook page.
Just some quick notes on Play Framework controller form field mappings ... I’ll add more here as I have more time, but right now this is a reference page for my Cato application.
1) The ResearchLink form from my “Finance” application: