Archives for the Month of November, 2007

Compact Inverted Calendar for Business Cards

Here’s a Compact Inverted Calendar for Business Cards, good for 2008 and 2009.

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The End Of Fear

It is far better to tell those fearful [of terrorists] that in a far away land, there are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who fear us, and some who even hate us, because of what their political leaders and religious leaders tell them about us. Some of them would even venture to our lands to [...]

Throwing dead cod back into the sea

There’s a story about fishermen being forced to throw excess cod into the sea because of fishing limits. Couldn’t the fisherman sell excess cod to those who have not caught enough? Or those fisherman who didn’t catch enough sell their quota to the fishermen who caught too many?

.Net Scripting / Hosting / Embedding

Note to readers: I apologize for this incorrigible post.  I’m just bookmarking these sites for future use.
Add VB.NET Scripting to .NET Apps
The .NET Framework contains classes (such as those in the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa namespace) that allow you to host a scripting engine in your application so that users can script your application. This article will show you [...]

CLRs tail opcode

Jomo Fisher demonstrates how tail call works in CLR using mutual recursion in F# as an example:

let rec f1 n =
f2 (n+1)
and f2 n =
f1 (n+1)

f1 1

.method public static !!T f1(int32 n) cil managed
{
.maxstack 4
L_0000: ldarg.0
[...]

A Better DateTime Library for Java

lshift writes about how difficult it is to use Java’s simple date parser to take into account daylight savings, and offers a workaround. Then refers us to joda, a better java date time library.
SimpleDateFormat assumes, if it’s not told, that what it’s parsing is in the system timezone, so in London the string from before [...]

Regaining the Google Mojo

What does a site do when they panic over lost PageRank after being caught selling text links?
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