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December 28, 2008

My new book "Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java" is available in print and as a free PDF download

November 09, 2008

Don't repeat yourself: for code, sure, but how about for data?

November 07, 2008

Good Ruby support in IntelliJ 8.0

November 04, 2008

Bad news: I did not get to read "The Reasoned Schemer" this morning. Good news: no lines at my polling place today!

November 03, 2008

Cool: JetBrain's new RubyMine

November 01, 2008

Complaints about Ruby memory use: false?

October 31, 2008

My Merb DevX article is online

October 29, 2008

Charming and useful: Tim O'Reilly's conversation with Yossi Vardi

October 22, 2008

Cool: OS X version of Mono 2.0 released

October 22, 2008

I converted RubyPlanet.net to Ruby + Merb

October 19, 2008

Wow, Merb really is fast

October 14, 2008

MerbCamp 2008 wrapup

October 11, 2008

MerbCamp 2008

October 06, 2008

Swi-Prolog and the Semantic Web

October 03, 2008

Trying to find a single Java web application framework

October 01, 2008

Odd but fun: online avatars

September 25, 2008

Looking for reviewers for my book "Practical Artiﬁcial Intelligence Programming With Java"

September 24, 2008

Inspirational: David Heinemeier Hansson's keynote talk at RailsConf

September 21, 2008

Very cool: PracTex online magazine for LaTex users

September 20, 2008

Space4J: similar to Prevayler but takes advantage of Java 1.6 concurrent data access APIs

September 20, 2008

Extracting text from a documents

September 15, 2008

Distributed robust system for provenance and trust in Semantic Web Applications and Tim Berners-Lee's new World Wide Web Foundation

September 14, 2008

I'll be at MerbCamp in San Diego October 11-12

September 14, 2008

Rails, Trails, Lift, and Seaside

September 12, 2008

Very useful book: "LaTeX Graphics Companion, The (2nd Edition) (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting)"

September 06, 2008

Java arrays and primitive types should (perhaps) be deprecated

August 26, 2008

Just out: my DevX article on Semantic Web, Sesame with Java and JRuby

August 19, 2008

Wanted: authors for my 'virtual publishing' business

August 13, 2008

New version of my KBtextmaster NLP library is available

August 08, 2008

More use of Eclipse and Mylyn: new book project using Latex

August 02, 2008

Eclipse Mylyn: a show-changer?

July 29, 2008

New cuil.com search site and other alternative search engines

July 28, 2008

Open data sources like Metaweb, Wikipedia, and SEC Edgar database

July 24, 2008

Dynamic language 'goodness': comparing JRuby and Java Semantic Web example programs

July 17, 2008

Programming for small devices

July 13, 2008

I am evaluating Google's Protocol Buffers for my knowledgebooks.com KB_bundle product

July 12, 2008

OpenDS 1.0 LDAPv3 server

June 25, 2008

A trip down memory lane: Pascal development

June 23, 2008

Great tools: the Java advantage

June 20, 2008

Good news: Microsoft to support ODF as default Word file format

June 12, 2008

PLT Scheme v4.0 is released

June 01, 2008

Ruby on Rails 2.1 and the MagLev Ruby virtual machine

May 23, 2008

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull": Cate Blanchett steals the show

May 21, 2008

Packaging Java libraries to be "IDE friendly"

May 18, 2008

Scala and the Lift web applicaton framework

May 17, 2008

Book review: "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist"

May 10, 2008

Programming: sometimes simpler is better

May 06, 2008

I am back from 14 days of travelling in Northern Mexico

April 19, 2008

Using JSON for communicating between Ruby and Lisp or Scheme

April 08, 2008

New Google Web App Engine

April 06, 2008

National Public Radio: "Our Confusing Economy, Explained" - excellent!

April 04, 2008

Blu-ray and Java vs. DVDs

March 27, 2008

Book review: "Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6"

March 26, 2008

Minimum number of languages that a developer should master?

March 26, 2008

Advantages of open source: quickly working around problems

March 16, 2008

C++, taking a second look

March 15, 2008

Excellent video: Dan Ingalls demos Lively Kernel at Google

March 12, 2008

My Spanish4.us web portal

March 07, 2008

Ruby becoming a first class language on Mac OS X

February 29, 2008

Importance of understanding business and sales issues; dynamc languages

February 23, 2008

Ruby client code for accessing OpenCalais and Metaweb/Freebase web services

February 21, 2008

Heavy weight Javascript client applications vs. lighter weight AJAX

February 21, 2008

Microsoft live.com, Yahoo attempted buyout

February 15, 2008

My DevX article "Real-Life Rails: Develop with NetBeans, Deploy on Linux"

February 15, 2008

IBM's Project Zero

February 08, 2008

NetBeans 6.1 development build: almost there for my work

February 05, 2008

PostgreSQL 8.3 on OS X: I like the full text indexing/search features

February 04, 2008

Snowing in Sedona Arizona

February 04, 2008

XMPP (Jabber)

February 04, 2008

Getting Things Done: a perspective from a work at home programmer

January 30, 2008

I finally tried Ruby 1.9 (developer's release)

January 26, 2008

More TV/Internet convergence: Hulu.com

January 25, 2008

I updated CookingSpace.com - now shows nutrients for meals and daily meal plans

January 25, 2008