Monday, May 27, 2002
Fighting to Live as the Towers Died
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
They began as calls for help, information, guidance. They quickly turned into soundings of desperation, and anger, and love. Now they are the remembered voices of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers...
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
They began as calls for help, information, guidance. They quickly turned into soundings of desperation, and anger, and love. Now they are the remembered voices of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers...
Saturday, May 25, 2002
developerWorks : Web services : Education : Tutorials - Building Web service applications with the Google API
by
Nicholas Chase
The Google search engine can now be accessed via a SOAP-based Web service. This means that developers can now embed Google search results and other information into their own applications. Google also took this project one step further, creating an API and Java toolkit for accessing the data. This tutorial is for developers who want to use Google information from within their Java applications...
by
Nicholas Chase
The Google search engine can now be accessed via a SOAP-based Web service. This means that developers can now embed Google search results and other information into their own applications. Google also took this project one step further, creating an API and Java toolkit for accessing the data. This tutorial is for developers who want to use Google information from within their Java applications...
Friday, May 24, 2002
Thursday, May 23, 2002
Saturday, May 18, 2002
Contains important Perl Golf information
No matter the language, programming is fun!
/!\ Caution: the following text contains material that can hurt your mental health. Read at your own risks!
No matter the language, programming is fun!
/!\ Caution: the following text contains material that can hurt your mental health. Read at your own risks!
Relevés de chorus
Page of jazz solo transcriptions, from Sonny Stitt to Art Pepper, Keith Jarrett...
Page of jazz solo transcriptions, from Sonny Stitt to Art Pepper, Keith Jarrett...
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Geophysical Alert Message
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2002 May 14 1507 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 13 May follow.
Solar flux 172 and mid-latitude A-index 10.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 14 May was 3 (38 nT).
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2002 May 14 1507 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 13 May follow.
Solar flux 172 and mid-latitude A-index 10.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 14 May was 3 (38 nT).
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.
Monday, May 13, 2002
XML.com: What is XSLT?
by G. Ken Holman
&qw; Now that we are successfully using XML to mark up our information according to our own vocabularies, we are taking control and responsibility for our information, instead of abdicating such control to product vendors. These vendors would rather lock our information into their proprietary schemes to keep us beholden to their solutions and technology....&qw;
by G. Ken Holman
&qw; Now that we are successfully using XML to mark up our information according to our own vocabularies, we are taking control and responsibility for our information, instead of abdicating such control to product vendors. These vendors would rather lock our information into their proprietary schemes to keep us beholden to their solutions and technology....&qw;
Wednesday, May 08, 2002
The really interesting web rides on the infrastructural back of the business web; as business adds interesting protocols, the human web will adopt (adapt) in strange and beautiful ways...
IBM developerWorks : Web services :The Tao of e-business services
by Steve Burbeck, Ph.D.
Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group
The concept of Web services is the beginning of a new service-oriented architecture in building better software applications. The change from an object-oriented system to a service-oriented one is an evolutionary idea that sublimated from the global Internet and Web system. To understand how to build Web Services into your computing architecture, you need to carefully understand the role they play. This article details the software engineering concepts behind the Web Services architecture, how it has evolved, how it is structured, and how it can be brought into your existing computing infrastructure
IBM developerWorks : Web services :The Tao of e-business services
by Steve Burbeck, Ph.D.
Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group
The concept of Web services is the beginning of a new service-oriented architecture in building better software applications. The change from an object-oriented system to a service-oriented one is an evolutionary idea that sublimated from the global Internet and Web system. To understand how to build Web Services into your computing architecture, you need to carefully understand the role they play. This article details the software engineering concepts behind the Web Services architecture, how it has evolved, how it is structured, and how it can be brought into your existing computing infrastructure
e-business services are loosely-coupled computing tasks communicating over the Internet that play a growing part in business-to-business (B2B) interactions. Companies are enclosing traditional computing tasks, such as database access or commercial transaction systems, in wrappers as software services to connect them to the Internet at a rapid pace. At the same time, companies are also introducing new tasks, such as computerized auctions and e-marketplaces, as business services. Simply put,
e-business will be based on a service-oriented model.
Tuesday, May 07, 2002
O'Reilly Network: Blogspace Under the Microscope
by Jon Udell
05/03/2002
The culture of blogspace is evolving in near-realtime. Last week, a new mutation brought backlinks into a more prominent role. At Disenchanted, inbound links were automatically reflected outward. Each article grew a tail of backlinks that pointed to pages referring back to it. Suddenly a new kind of feedback loop was created. With a twist of the lens, conversations that had been diffuse and indirect came sharply into focus. Almost immediately the meme replicated...
by Jon Udell
05/03/2002
The culture of blogspace is evolving in near-realtime. Last week, a new mutation brought backlinks into a more prominent role. At Disenchanted, inbound links were automatically reflected outward. Each article grew a tail of backlinks that pointed to pages referring back to it. Suddenly a new kind of feedback loop was created. With a twist of the lens, conversations that had been diffuse and indirect came sharply into focus. Almost immediately the meme replicated...
Sunday, May 05, 2002
The Atlantic | November 2001 | The Crash of EgyptAir 990
The Atlantic Monthly - November 2001
The Crash of EgyptAir 990
Two years afterward the U.S. and Egyptian governments are still quarreling over the cause?a clash that grows out of cultural division, not factual uncertainty. A look at the flight data from a pilot's perspective, with the help of simulations of the accident, points to what the Egyptians already know: the crash was caused not by any mechanical failure but by a pilot's intentional act
by William Langewiesche...
The Atlantic Monthly - November 2001
The Crash of EgyptAir 990
Two years afterward the U.S. and Egyptian governments are still quarreling over the cause?a clash that grows out of cultural division, not factual uncertainty. A look at the flight data from a pilot's perspective, with the help of simulations of the accident, points to what the Egyptians already know: the crash was caused not by any mechanical failure but by a pilot's intentional act
by William Langewiesche...
Saturday, May 04, 2002
Earthweb Networking and Communications: Standard Java Technology: The Essence of OOP Using Java, Polymorphism and the Object Class
by Richard G. Baldwin
Includes information on The Java Collections Framework
Java supports a framework, known as the Java Collections Framework, which you can read about in other tutorial lessons on the web site.
Without getting into a lot of detail, the framework provides several concrete implementations of interfaces with names like list, set, and map.
The classes that provide the implementations have names like LinkedList, TreeSet, ArrayList, Vector, and Hashtable. As you might recognize, the framework satisfies the requirements for what we might refer to as classical data structures...
by Richard G. Baldwin
Includes information on The Java Collections Framework
Java supports a framework, known as the Java Collections Framework, which you can read about in other tutorial lessons on the web site.
Without getting into a lot of detail, the framework provides several concrete implementations of interfaces with names like list, set, and map.
The classes that provide the implementations have names like LinkedList, TreeSet, ArrayList, Vector, and Hashtable. As you might recognize, the framework satisfies the requirements for what we might refer to as classical data structures...
Friday, May 03, 2002
BPMI.org: BPML
The Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) is a meta-language for the modeling of business processes, just as XML is a meta-language for the modeling of business data. BPML provides an abstracted execution model for collaborative & transactional business processes based on the concept of a transactional finite-state machine...
The Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) is a meta-language for the modeling of business processes, just as XML is a meta-language for the modeling of business data. BPML provides an abstracted execution model for collaborative & transactional business processes based on the concept of a transactional finite-state machine...
Unfazed by Defectors, Sun's Chief Charts Next Era (NYT requires free subscription)
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2
Under pressure to revive Sun Microsystems after the collapse of its two strongest markets, telecommunications and Internet commerce, Scott G. McNealy, the company's chairman and chief executive, made the rounds among his senior managers recently insisting that those who were not ready to sign up for the next five years, step aside.
On Wednesday morning, the departure of Sun's president and longtime second in command, Edward J. Zander ? the company's fifth major departure in two weeks ? provided new evidence that Mr. McNealy is intent on clearing the decks of a generation of Sun management as he begins a drive to regain the company's dominance in many aspects of corporate computing.
Mr. Zander has provided a calming, business- and sales-oriented counterpoint to Mr. McNealy's passionate and charismatic approach for almost 15 years. He said he waited to leave until the company's revenue began to rebound, and was doing so now because it was clear that Mr. McNealy would not be stepping aside anytime soon. Several Sun executives confirmed that Mr. Zander has repeatedly talked about leaving the company during the last five years.
But what is behind the recent run of senior departures, Sun executives say, is a new focus by Mr. McNealy on building his team for Sun's next era, an approach he adopted after joining General Electric's board and becoming deeply influenced by the succession-planning process of G.E.'s chairman, John F. Welch Jr...
"Scott realized that Sun didn't have anything equivalent in place," said John Gage, one of Sun's most visible executives, "and he began going around the company and telling people, `We need you to be committed for a period of time; I don't want any surprises.' "
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2
Under pressure to revive Sun Microsystems after the collapse of its two strongest markets, telecommunications and Internet commerce, Scott G. McNealy, the company's chairman and chief executive, made the rounds among his senior managers recently insisting that those who were not ready to sign up for the next five years, step aside.
On Wednesday morning, the departure of Sun's president and longtime second in command, Edward J. Zander ? the company's fifth major departure in two weeks ? provided new evidence that Mr. McNealy is intent on clearing the decks of a generation of Sun management as he begins a drive to regain the company's dominance in many aspects of corporate computing.
Mr. Zander has provided a calming, business- and sales-oriented counterpoint to Mr. McNealy's passionate and charismatic approach for almost 15 years. He said he waited to leave until the company's revenue began to rebound, and was doing so now because it was clear that Mr. McNealy would not be stepping aside anytime soon. Several Sun executives confirmed that Mr. Zander has repeatedly talked about leaving the company during the last five years.
But what is behind the recent run of senior departures, Sun executives say, is a new focus by Mr. McNealy on building his team for Sun's next era, an approach he adopted after joining General Electric's board and becoming deeply influenced by the succession-planning process of G.E.'s chairman, John F. Welch Jr...
"Scott realized that Sun didn't have anything equivalent in place," said John Gage, one of Sun's most visible executives, "and he began going around the company and telling people, `We need you to be committed for a period of time; I don't want any surprises.' "
