JBoss, a pioneer in the open source Java segment and now a division of Red Hat, recently held its annual event JBoss World showcasing its latest initiatives. This entry gathers numerous posts from the blogsphere discussing the event.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techtarget/tsscom/blogs/~3/240115162/thread.tss
Just a note to myself to do a braindump on all this Service Broker shiznit I have been playing with lately.
Potential discussion topics:
John Baez and Mike Stay are working on a book chapter titled “Categories in Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: a Rosetta Stone.” They previously asked for some help with the logic section, and now they’re looking for help with the computation section:
But now I really need comments from anyone who likes categories and theoretical computer science!
In fact, the final ‘computation’ section of the paper is still very rough. It introduces combinators but doesn’t really explain them well yet… and perhaps worse, it doesn’t say anything about the lambda calculus!
I plan to fix some of these deficiencies in the next week. But, I figure it’s best to get comments and criticism now, while there’s still time to take it into account.
This is already a great introductory paper, but the computation section is indeed quite rough. Obviously comments are welcome, but even if you don’t have anything to add, the first sections are sure to be enjoyable for many LtU readers. The paper does not assume any background in category theory, logic or physics and manages to be an excellent introduction to the surprising connections between these fields. If you have some background, it’s a very quick and fun read, and if you can offer fee
It’s hard to decide how afraid to be of something that is
really bad and really rare.
This problem is currently one of the most controversial
issues in the United States. Ever since September 11,
2001 , we have been wrestling with the question: How afraid of terrorism
should we be?
How afraid should we be?
This blog entry is not the place for me to take a stance on
any of these issues. For now I will simply say that I understand both
perspectives. This whole situation is simply the most obvious example of my
point, which was:
It’s hard to decide how afraid to be of something that is
really bad and really rare.
Issues like these are like an icy ski slope. Some people
stand at the top. Some people stand at the bottom. Very few people stand
anywhere else. It’s too slippery.
The NCAA is an organization that supposedly prides itself on making sure that athletes are students and attend college with the intent to be students. What the NCAA fails to understand, IMHO, is that often students attend college with a specific goal or dream in mind. It may be to graduate and become an accountant, a musician, an artist, a teacher and any number of other professions. Every student who goes to school, post high school is given every opportunity and encouraged to maximize their effort and optimize their resources to achieve their goals. Unless of course they happen to attend a school that is a member of the NCAA and their goal is to be a professional athlete. In those cases, the NCAA does everything it can to make sure that the athlete is not a typical or traditional student.
For these student athletes, rather than doing every thing possible to excel in their chosen field, they face rules and restrictions that are exceeded in quantity and complexity only by the US Tax Code.
One summer I visited Indiana and there were some players working out and playing on the Assembly Hall court. After watching a few minutes, I walked in the h (more…)
With almost 4 years of Blogs in the hopper, I decided to bring back some of my favorites and republish them… Here is the first:
Success and Motivation
I did it too. I drove by big houses and would wonder who lived there. What did they do for a living? How did they make their money? Someday, I would tell myself, I would live in a house like that. Every weekend I would do it.
I read books about successful people. In fact, I read every book or magazine I could get my hands on. I would tell myself 1 good idea would pay for the book and could make the difference between me making it or not.
I worked jobs I didn’t like. I worked jobs I loved, but had no chance of being a career. I worked jobs that barely paid the rent. I had so many jobs my parents wondered if I would be stable. Most of them aren’t on my resume anymore because I was there so short a time or they were so stupid I was embarrassed. You don’t want to write about selling powdered milk or selling franchises for TV repair shops. In every job, I would justify it in my mind � whether I loved it or hated it � that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.
If I ever grew up, I hoped to run my own business some day. It’s exactly what I told myself every day. In reality, I had as much doubt as confidence. I was just hoping the confidence would win over the doubt and it would all work out for the best.
I read a ton. Online, magazines, newspapers. I troll the newsstands for new magazines just trying to see if there is something out there Im missing.
I also get asked all the time what magazines that I do read. I’m not going to go through the list, but I’m going to list two that are must reading for anyone who has an interest in technology. Why ? Because they often cover in technical detail just how 99pct of the bandwidth available to the home is managed, planned and maintained.
It’s amazing to me how all the “internet pundits” truly have no understanding that 98pct of the bandwidth to most people’s homes is not allocated to the internet, its alloc
To help the uninformed, I decided to share my 2 faves:
Communications Technology
ScreenPlays
These are the 2 magazines that I save every issue of and that I get excited to learn something new.
check em out
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Wow - check it out… Aptana (the “other” IDE for web development) just got support for the Microsoft Ajax library. The Microsoft Ajax Library is that the core of ASP.NET AJAX, but does not require any Microsoft software on the server of client. And now, not even in the IDE.
Hanselman has all the details, including the com.ajax.ms.3.5.21022.8.jar that you just drop into Aptana’s plug in directory.
LINQ to SQL lets you write queries in C#, and it will turn them into SQL queries. This is not limited to the C# 3.0 query syntax – it also applies when you use LINQ through ordinary function call syntax. (This should come as no surprise, as the compiler transforms all query expressions into function calls.) For example, consider this code, running against the AdventureWorks example database:
MyDataContext ctx = new MyDataContext(); decimal maxPrice = ctx.Products.Max(product => product.ListPrice);
The aim here is to find out the highest list price of any product. (Not hugely useful, but I want to illustrate the use of aggregate functions such as Max.) Logically speaking, Max evaluates the function you pass it for each item in the source collection (the Products table in this case) and returns the highest result. Here we’ve used a lambda expression that picks out the ListPrice member of the Product class, so this example will get the highest ListPrice. The Product class was built by importing the Product table in Visual Studio 2008’s LINQ to SQL O/R designer, which created properties to represent the table’s columns, including ListPrice.
LINQ’s Max operation is an extension method, meaning that it’s not a member of the object returned by the Products property, despite how it looks. It’s a static method defined by LINQ’s Queryable class, so the call to Max is effectively doing this:
I just noticed the NBA All-Stars went with Silverlight for the update to their video site. Now you can watch all your favorite NBA clips in Silverlight!
If your boss asks, tell him you are doing a “technology evaluation” 
Check it out: http://www.nba.com/allstar2008/video/
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/02/17/the-nba-all-stars-go-silverlight.aspx
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