In 40+ years of computing, there is bound to be software and tools that people are simply not aware of, or have forgotten about, or have moved from the forefront to behind the scenes—there are actually lots of these. One of the reasons that I watch Freshmeat for software releases is to constantly look for things [...]
Recently, I came upon Vala, the new programming language that has been created which is similar in nature to C#, but compiles to C (and thus to an efficient native executable). This is the kind of interesting thing that can come from research with managed code systems—and like any new technology that someone gets the [...]
Just a quick set of notes I accumulated earlier when I installed the new JRE on a couple of 64-bit (AMD64) Intrepid machines. Download the JRE or the JDK for 6u12 from Sun Microsystem’s Java download page. Select the bin option, NOT the RPM. Save the file to your home directory. When the download is [...]
Hrm. Not sure what I should do about this one. GUI systems programming is a concept that is new to me, at least in all of its low-level glory. Traditionally, I write things in C# because I really like that language. Eventually, I’d love to see the majority of the software out there using something [...]
Sometimes, I run into something so totally special that I am prompted to start thinking again. Does anyone else think that it’d be a good idea to segregate the core of the system and the application software into two separate bundles of packages? Say, for example, that the base system would comprise the absolute core [...]
Well, school is out. Forever. I turned in my final Final Projects last night. Of course, I have yet to receive the grades from them; that usually takes a little while even for the most responsive of teachers. I think that the computer systems that the grades are input to are probably mainframe computers that [...]
Wow, am I behind on my reader. Approximately 2,000 articles worth. Whoops. However, I got a lot done in Toledo. Went to two birthday parties, ate at a couple of new restaurants, and worked on a house up there that is an investment of ours and a friend’s. However, I got a little behind in [...]
