Nice page about Unicode, including history, points of contention and (most usefully) a large section about mappings and encodings, plus a few other useful or interesting matters. But it’s the Mappings and encodings section as well as some of the sidebar links I wish I’d known about years back (too many people don’t understand any [...]
Nice vid mixing Buffy and Smallville. Think “Buffy and AngelClark”. Well done.
Nice simple example how to load and invoke a script engine with the new Java API: package com.abien.javaee5patterns.fluidkernel.facade.scripting; import com.abien.javaee5patterns.fluidkernel.facade.Calculator; import java.util.logging.Logger; import javax.script.ScriptEngine; import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager; public class JSScripting implements Calculator{ private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(JSScripting.class.getName()); private static final String ENGINE_NAME = “JavaScript”; private ScriptEngine scriptEngine = null;; public JSScripting(){ ScriptEngineManager engineManager = [...]
The Complete Javascript Number Reference. There’s also one for Dates, Strings and more. Very nifty.
Microsoft released an ‘update’ of their Web ‘Core’ Fonts. The comparison PDF shows side-by-side examples of the new ones vs. the older models. I for one like Consolas. I never liked Courier ad Lucida Console has always been a tad heavy for my taste. Consolas looks like a nice middle ground. The others seem comparable [...]
They released a demo. Single-player, Blademaster and Marksman only but more than enough to get a taste of the game. why, yes, I have already tried it. More than once. How did you guess? Sadly, my brand new frakkin’ maching does NOT meet the recommmended hardware. Oh sure it’s a Core 2 Duo with 2GB [...]
Die ESB Die? Interesting. Interesting blog in general too. Think I’ll follow this one for a while.
A friend an I were comparing notes on SciFi/Fantasy reading material. Here’s the best of the best I recommend: David Gemmell (fantasy) Legend (the single best book I have ever read) Pretty much everything else he’s written The Stones of Power series was pretty impressive and interesting Druss (main character in Legend) appears in a [...]
What if the LOTR movies were made by directors other than Peter Jackson? Michael Bay, Michael Moore, George Lucas, Spike Lee and more.
My first doxygen bug! Logged as 485099. Something with the preprocessor worked great in 1.5.1 but gets confused in 1.5.3. See the link for details. Whee!
