Berlin Brown and Software Development

Here is a post verbatim from AndyF on the Clojure discussion forum. http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/289904c1a5deb8d8 BEGIN-QUOTE: Ive (Andy) got a start at programs for solving two of the problems solved in many other languages on "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" web site: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org In particular, the k-nucleotide problem has as a significant part of its computation time a similar task to what you have done -- tallying the number of times each unique item appears in a collection, using a map (which most programs on the web site implement with a mutable hash table, not a persistent map like in Clojure). I also have adapted some solutions for calculating complex numbers in the Mandelbrot set from a discussion in this group from several months back, and addded a bit of code so the input/output match what is expected for the Mandelbrot benchmark. I don't have Clojure implementations for the othe...

I haven't watched Food Inc yet, but I get more from all the people just talking about it. So far, it seems to be a major work of art. With heart disease and cancer being a major killer in America, it is time for all of us to start thinking about what goes into our bodies. Also as part of my research, I am concerned and wanting to change my diet. Most of my research has come from the Whole Foods websites and blog. Check it out as I don't have much else to say on the subject. http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/

Light Logs is a sub project of the light text editor. The light log viewer is a simple desktop application for viewing log files that are generated by a web server. But it may also be useful for viewing other text files. This application is especially useful for viewing logs generated by a J2EE Servlet container like the Apache Tomcat or a full J2EE Application Server like Weblogic. Latest version for the Light Log Viewer is 0.8.20090715 http://code.google.com/p/lighttexteditor/ http://code.google.com/p/lighttexteditor/wiki/LightLogViewer

Google Calendar Listing of Meal Deals in the Atlanta area. I haven't tried most of these, so you may want to call before you go. http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=of063g67ea7kkhbjds18rjec14@group.calendar.google.com Atlanta Nightly Deals

I asked the following question on stackoverflow: "I have a source directory that includes a mix of different languages and files. Probably 100+ total files. I want to 'fork' that code and create a completely different version of the source. At this point, I will have version-1 of the code and version-2 of the code. I will not make that much development on version-1. I want to change the documentation headers and some other small changes. I will do a lot of development on version-2 and then come back a month or two later and merge version-2 with version-1 (set the latest version-2 to version-1). But, I don't want to lose any changes that I made to version-1 (say after months of small fixes)." Here is the response. --- Begin Quote --- git only creates A SINGLE .git directory. svn is the one that scatters .svn directories in EVERY directory. Your time would be far better spent learning useful git commands (such as git merge --squash). Use git, it will do exactly what...

Rest in Peace Man. "Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back." -- TMZ

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML "SGML was a major improvement on the markup languages that preceded it (including GML), which helped create better publishing systems and helped people think about information in much improved ways, but when the zealots forgot the publishing heritage and took the notion that information can be separated from presentation out of the world of publishing into general data representation because SGML had had some success in "database publishing", something went awry, not only superficially, but fundamentally. It is not unlike when a baby, whose mother satisfies its every need before it is even aware that it has been expressed, grows up to believe that the world in general is both influenced by and obliged to satisfy its whims. Even though nobody in their right mind would argue that babies should fend for themselves and earn their own living, at some point in the child's life, it must begin a progression towards indepen...