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Ξ November 20th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blog, GeekSpeak |

Infoworld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

Ξ November 17th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blog, GeekSpeak |

I don’t generally read a lot of the trade magazines because all the articles seem like paid advertisements from a technology company.  You see hugs ads for Oracle products, then .. oh my, an article singing the praises of Oracle’s latest and greatest products.  The articles are not even the slightest bit objective, so I generally don’t bother with the trade rags at all.

That being said, This article by Infoworld is dead on: Infoworld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

The Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium

Ξ November 16th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blog |

My wife and I headed to the The Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium out in suffolk county NY.  The Museum/Mansion was sensational, though the Planetarium left a little to be desired.  Perhaps it was the planetarium show that I saw; I’ll have to go back and check it out again.

GOOGLE GO

Ξ November 16th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blog |

Google released a new programming language about a week ago. I’ve become quite interested in this language for a few reasons. It’s written like a scripting language (think of Python and Perl), but it compiles like C/C++, so esentially an actual compiled scripting language MADE for systems programming.

D o I think that this will replace C/C++ .. no, however it will allow some systems programming to become faster in terms of development time. I CAN see it replacing Java/Perl/Python at some point in the future, simply because it fills that space with the best of everything.

What it’s lacking however is a software library repository like CPAN is for perl. Since the language is so new, I expect that there will be one set up in the near future.

here is the official documentation for the language.

http://golang.org/

So, who’s been working on this project?  Good question:

Ken Thompson, the winner of the 1983 Turing Award and 1998 National Medal of Technology, who, along with Dennis Ritchie, was an original creator of Unix. Thompson also came up with the B programming language that led to the widely used C from Ritchie.

• Rob Pike, a principal software engineer who was a member of Bell Labs’ Unix team and a later operating-system project called Plan 9. He’s worked with Thompson for years and with him created the widely used UTF-8 character-encoding scheme.

• Robert Griesemer, who helped write Java’s HotSpot compiler and V8, the Chrome browser’s JavaScript engine; Russ Cox, a Plan 9 developer; and Ian Taylor, who has worked on improving the widely used open-source GCC compiler.

Cigar List

Ξ November 10th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blog |

People have asked me about good cigars, here are some of my favs:

Sancho Panza

Hoyo De Monterrey

 Excalibur 1066

Punch Rare Corojo

If you’re buying cigars, you can’t go wrong with those

I said, do you speak-a my language? He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwhich.

Ξ November 10th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blog |

We had our first 20+ person party this past weekend.  All turned out well for our first time, but it will only get smoother from here.  Our plan was to head out to the vinyards, but enough guests wanted to stay at our place.  Oh well.  We had dinner catered and we made a few trips to the liquor store.

I had my mid-term tonight.  It was a difficult test, but I suppose I passed it.  I’m glad its over with.  I’m so tired of school all the time.  I can’t wait till the end of the semester.  I know that’s not a great attitude, but I just can’t help it.  I need a long break.   Between work, school and teaching, I’m just tired of being around computers.  That’s probably the #1 reason this blog hasn’t been as up to date as it normally is.  Bear with me dear readers.  I shall strive to do better.