Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

links for 2008-04-01

• Geeking with Greg: Talk on disk as the new RAM
  (tags: cluster concurrency distributed google parallel performance disk memory)
• Man-made molecules reverse liver cirrhosis in rats - Yahoo! News
  (tags: liver cirrhosis hepatitis)
• A Prohibitionist having trouble with the truth
  (tags: drugs cannabis prohibition holland netherlands unodc)
• SonnyRadio.com :: Elephant Self Portrait
  (tags: art video animal elephant portrait painting)
• Py Zine - Threading the Global Interpreter Lock
  (tags: concurrency gil programming python threading threads)
• Python processing
  (tags: python concurrency threading threads pool parallel process)

WWDC 2008 Student Scholarship Program announced

Apple Developer Connection: Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 - Student Scholarship Program

Announced! Good stuff, Apple.

Hockey Day in Victoria

Today I coached two games in the morning, then went to watch Canada's Female Olympic Hockey team in the mid afternoon, then played a game at 7pm.

Now I'm watching the Oilers vs. Flames which started recording as my own game started.

Tomorrow I will coach a game at 10am. If we had won tonight I would have played at 4pm, but we didn't, so, while that sucks, at least I can work on homework tomorrow.

links for 2008-03-29

• THENSYS - Dataflow Programming
  (tags: programming dataflow python)

Privoxy domain scooped by ad spam

I use the Privoxy proxy server, and recently discovered that their domain (privoxy.org) has disappeared and replaced with one of those stupid ad sites.

Not sure if someone just forgot to renew it or what, but either way it's pretty disappointing.

Apple WWDC 2008 – No Students this year?

I've got a theory about the lack of student scholarship / ticket options for WWDC 2008 (thus far).

I think Apple is expecting so many new attendees for the event because of the iPhone SDK that they aren't sure there will be enough room. When you're running out of room and prioritizing, it's not hard to understand that free and cheap tickets are the last to be offered. I'm guessing they're looking at ticket sale trends and figuring out where they'll be by June. Chances are they won't have room to accomodate students this year.

If they're going to offer student scholarships, they'll need to get that process underway soon so that students can apply, find out if they're going and make travel arrangements.

The other theory... last year, students were mistreated during the keynote, they weren't allowed into the keynote because there were too many attendees, and worse yet they weren't brought into the auxilliary room until the keynote had already started. We were literally held in a corner until they were ready to let us upstairs. Quite a few people complained about the poor treatment, so maybe they just want to avoid issues like this by simply not having the students there.

links for 2008-03-25

• My Road to Erlang
  (tags: erlang programming)

links for 2008-03-20

• Parallel Python
  PP is a python module which provides mechanism for parallel execution of python code on SMP (systems with multiple processors or cores) and clusters (computers connected via network).
  (tags: concurrency parallel python programming cluster smp distributed)

links for 2008-03-18

• python-safethread - Google Code
  python-safethread is a large modification of CPython intended to provide safe, easy, and scalable concurrency mechanisms.
  (tags: python concurrency scalable programming threading gil deadlocks)
• Sports Club Stats: Edmonton Oilers Playoff Picture
  (tags: hockey oilers playoffs probability)
• The BNF Converter
  The BNF Converter is a compiler construction tool generating a compiler front-end from a Labelled BNF grammar. It is currently able to generate C, C++, C#, F#, Haskell, Java, and OCaml, as well as XML representations.
  (tags: parser compiler bnf grammar programming)
• Kahlua - run Lua on the Java VM
  (tags: java lua programming vm)

Apple WWDC 2008 – Students?

Apple Developer Connection: Worldwide Developers Conference 2008

Apple announced WWDC 2008 today, it's in June in San Francisco (again). I had no intentions of going this year, but the iPhone SDK announcements are sorta changing things. I'm seriously interested in developing applications for the iPhone, so obviously WWDC is the place to be this June.

I'm hoping I can get a student scholarship to the conference, as has been available in previous years, but I haven't found any information about it yet. If you know anything about student rates / scholarships this year, please let me know.

Of course, I would be even more excited if we could actually, oh I don't know, get the iPhone in Canada. I guess it's the price I pay for living in an undeveloped country like Canada instead of a technology haven like Ireland.