- Android Gets Scripting Support with Python, Lua, Beanshell; Ruby planned
July 1, 2009 – Superb. Just as I get an Android phone it turns out that I may get to write Groovy code for it soon.
Jul
1
Jun
23
- Hemlock: Because immortality might not be such a good thing
- Genetically Modified Turbine-Powered Rabbit
- Project Coin Announces Second Candidate List
- Computers still struggling with sporting schedules
- Sonic lasers promise 1000 times faster PCs
June 22, 2009
June 18, 2009 – Brilliant.
June 18, 2009 – Lists some of the proposed changes to the Java language in Java 7. Some of the stuff looks very Groovy inspired – in particular the features dealing with collections. Looking forward to this one. Along with closures, it should be a good release to remove some of the pain-points.
June 18, 2009 – A real world application of the traveling salesman problem, with far more constraints than you could imagine. Who would have thought scheduling a league fixture was this hard?
June 18, 2009 – Cool.
Jun
20
It’s done! After three months of hard work to build up a set I am officially a stand-up comedian!
The video suffered some technical difficulties during recording. Basically all the really funny bits are missing. Honest! You should have been there! No, not really… It starts with “There was a guy at the train station asking for change…”
I came off stage and had no idea what just happened. Did any of it make sense? Did I miss whole paragraphs? Who knows, who cares. They laughed -- hard -- and that was all that mattered.
For anyone who wants to give it a bash, it’s one of the best extreme sports out there. The fear lasts for weeks beforehand. The pressure to not-choke up, the distinct possibility of public humiliation and the endless self-doubt -- “is that joke actually funny?”, “should I really say that?”, “does this shirt bring out my eyes?” -- all brings together the perfect storm of adrenaline. Awesome!
All the guys out on stage that night were doing it for the first time, and we were seriously buzzing afterwards.
I can’t wait till my next run out! The best fun I have had in a very long time.
“When I told my friends I wanted to be a comedian, they laughed. Well, they’re not laughing now!” -- Bob Monkhouse
Jun
16
- What Pair-Programing is Not
- Complete implementation of MS LINQ for Java released
- Oracle Coherence vs. GigaSpaces XAP
- Keynote: The Future of Java Innovation
- Expialidocious : Mary Poppins Electronica Remix
- Futurama is Back, Baby!
June 16, 2009 – Clear and simple explanation as to why pairing is a good idea. Easy to grasp when you do it, but not always as easy to explain to someone else.
June 12, 2009 – No environment’s an island, and we finally get a LINQ implementation on the JVM. Well worth kicking the tires on this one, even if the underlying providers aren’t fully complete.
June 12, 2009 – Having just gone through an exercise in comparing these two similar-but-different products, this is pretty handy.
June 11, 2009
June 11, 2009 – Remixing at its finest. Both video and soundtrack. Amazing.
June 11, 2009 – Awesome.
Jun
10
After 3 months of work from absolute scratch, I have just finished putting together my first stand-up routine. 5 minutes, no fat. Just in time too – the final practice session’s on tomorrow night, and then it’s time to take off the training wheels and face the crowd on stage on Sunday night. It’s amazing what you can come up with under pressure. I think it’s fair to say that I’m absolutely terrified, but at least I know that the material will get me through. Now all I have to do is memorize it, and then not forget it in a haze of public humiliation. No worries!
Jun
9
- Home taping didn’t kill music
June 8, 2009 – The music industry fudging numbers on piracy? No, it cannot be true. I love the idea that according to their download data, they’re losing £175 per person in the UK per week. That’s a whole lot of CDs 
Jun
2
- Microsoft’s Unveils New Awesome Wireless Controller: The Human Body
- Microsoft Bing: The Decision Engine
- Google Wave – Most Innovative Product of 2009?
- Microsoft’s Vision of the Future (Parody)
- Google Wave: Reinventing online communication
- Google to end trips to the meter cupboard
- Designated Drivers
June 2, 2009 – Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you can’t have missed this. Gaming without controllers! Makes the Wii look like a ball in a cup.
June 2, 2009 – So far so good. I’ve been playing with this, and it looks as though Google have some serious competition on their hands. Some of the features (such as decisions about when to buy flights) seem to be US specific, but nothing particularly new there. I’ll switch over for the week and see how it goes.
May 29, 2009 – Google Wave preview.
May 29, 2009 – Hilarious.
May 29, 2009 – Chat + email + documents + everything else crammed into one tool.
May 27, 2009 – Once upon a time I remember reading on Google’s “about” page that they did nothing but search. Back when I had just switched from AltaVista.
May 27, 2009 – Reminds me of my AI class.
May
26
- Joan Rivers: interview
May 26, 2009 – The one I’m going to take away is the story of a note from Lenny Bruce – “You’re right, they’re wrong.” Own the stage. For those 5 minutes – it’s yours.
May
22
My first stand-up show listing just went up on the net this week (http://amusedmoose.com/shows). You can book tickets online. Sunday the 14th at 7:30. Reality has just hit like a sock full of coins. I’m bricking it.
May
15
- Five Reasons To Be Excited About the Eclipse Ecosystem
- Picking Pockets, Wirelessly
- Five Minutes of Googlefail
- Hands on: WolframAlpha review
- Whither Sockets?
- The Big Agile Practices Survey
- Agile Architecture or Accidental Architecture
- Grids vs Clouds
- Flight of the Conchords: interview
- Exclusive: SecondLight explained: MS Surface on steroids
- Human brain helps crack computer challenges
May 15, 2009 – Good article covering some cool Eclipse tools.
May 15, 2009 – The final nail in the coffin for the smartcard behind the Oyster system (and a good number of security swipecards as well). Every time I read one of these things I can’t help but think what a huge waste of cash the RFID based id card scheme in the UK is. I give it about a year before someone works out how to copy and manipulate information on them.
May 15, 2009 – Maybe it’s time to find a backup search engine? I like http://cuil.com – it’s done by some ex-Google guys and tackles search from a slightly different perspective.
May 14, 2009 – More WA teasing. Bookmark next Monday as it launches to the public.
May 14, 2009 – Here’s an idea – are the low-level APIs that we use as a foundation for our apps limiting what we can do? Maybe it’s time to have a rethink.
May 13, 2009 – Makes for very interesting reading. Comparing what others think is important with what you’re doing is a great sanity check.
May 13, 2009 – Don’t feel bad if you’re doing Agile and want to do a few diagrams before coding.
May 13, 2009 – If you didn’t know, now you know.
May 13, 2009
May 11, 2009
May 12, 2009 – Human brain + computer = scary
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