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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

JPR 2009: Mon

After beginning the day with Camp 4 Coffee
, we tacked at the Posse House to plunk into a day of coding dojos on alternate JVM languages. Assorted groupings separated forth to different suites and houses to discourse Scala
JavaFX
Groovy
and Grails
, and Jython
The progrgram for the day likewise included a treatment of Fan
; that session was deferred to the afternoon when Fred Simon
( of AlphaCSP
and JFrog
) seed an unexpected travelling postponement.

You 'd believe that the gate agent would conceive to wake a kip rider, alternatively of merely releasing last call and founding the aircraft!

I begined at the Posse House in the Scala session. Hawkshaw Wall was interested in attempting to implement linq
Similar functionality in Scala. Dianne reexamined the first component of Bill Wagner's article
and I recapped the generic variety we worked out last yr. Hawkshaw exhibited some sample codification that demoed several Scala techniques for nice, clean, concise codification.

It was n't equally formal as that may sound; it was more conversation than presentation.

After a dejeuner interruption, I attended Chestnut House where Measure Venners encountered with some Possee attendees to work on his ScalaTest
undertaking.

After supper many early-arrivers re-convened at the Posse House for a series of informal wrap-up dialogues which summarise the activities of the assorted meetings for everyone. It was a great style to defeat the defeat of not being everyplace at once.

Monday, April 20, 2009

`` Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah '' Middle Eastern Children 's Books '' Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah '' Center Eastern Children 's Books

Mrs. Laura Shrub was a bibliothec and proceeds to be a strong advocator for furnishing books to immature educatees that will expand their savvy of the macrocosm around them. In the geezerhood since 9/11, it appears especially important that we get an accurate icon of the creations of Muslimism and the Mideast. One fashion to make that is to give our tiddlers accession to books that will open these civilisation to our tykes.

Lesson Plan

Sunday, April 19, 2009

LET 's Get This Party Commenced

Work on Fri endwise a perfect ( synth ) note because we chance Tommy Toemie.

The joyousness of working but off Clapham Main street lies in walking past the rubble store run by the sun-worshipping alky. This affects their regular as clockwork salutations of `` Awright dahlin '' and my feeling enviousness of the carefree populates the detritus store owner and his mates hold, which normally affects sitting about on the paving with tins of beer listening to music.

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On Friday I saw that amongst the usual heap of marathon waistcoats and 2nd mitt shoes was a white automaton standing at about the size of a nestling. It was love at first glance. Not cognise who or what he maked, I eyeball upwards the 80s prickers on the small cuss and saw that he was a Scooter 2000 ( because the twelvemonth 2000 is so futurist ) and it was plenty for me to desire him. And that is how I land up with Tommy Toemie in my ownership.

On the web I see that he is an old robot
and is wireless commanded. Mine accompanied some batteries that maked not work and no radiocommunication control. But verily, I make n't anticipate him to make much except to sit there and smile. I 'd play him some Kraftwerk
and let's get this party started

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Nigh On Deuce Feet Of Brownness

Jim was n't losing out either with a nice brownness of his ain around 17 pursued Tues with a great 18 1/2 brownness. Jim was besides absolutely buried by an unobserved monster brownness ( by behavior and attitude ) underneath an ill-famed deadfall midmost of the river. That was a fish we desired bad.

Jim with a beautiful White River brown. Look at those spots

Jim with a beautiful White brownness. Look at those places

The boys besides slammed a cluster of squealer rainbows over the two years. Some of these fish were merely round, bellies dilate, stuffed full of shad. Hawkshaw, a dry fly nut like myself, really caught a couple top, large solid returns. But essentially we were angle deeply, under Thingamabobbers. Gigue forms, Bathroom Barr 's Meat Whistling, and Zonkers maked the trick.

Yesterday was a different tale as we commenced at the Dike but were blown off the H2O by a monumental shad killing. At the start the fish get on the bite, and we were looking for even better fish. But the absolute volume of shad left our flies unmolested by the trout. We could hold run downstream early in the `` hatching '' to remain before of the shad `` pestilence ''.But we were banking on areduction in flowing and shad likehad been the form on the old years. So we drew out and trailered downward watercourse.

One of 5 last afternoon brownnesses for Hawkshaw

This was where Gumshoe 's hot manus paid awaily, completing with 5 brownnesses for the afternoon, the best that 23 animal which holded everyone gulled as a log. This fish was so strong then tough it was unbelievable. It literally would not come forth the undersurface.

The Brute

Some really great memories and great company hombres. Cum back again.

Friday, April 17, 2009

iPhone 2.

iPhone2.1 is here (2.0 for some clip ) and still some `` indispensable '' features are not inward. I suppose everybody will do their ownwishlist but this issomethingI ca n't bump ground why is not implemented.

1. Cut, Transcript, Paste

I ca n't recall since when Nokia holded this in their frameworks. For God interest, iPhone is build upon OSX ( UNIX ) and Clipboard is something that isaroundus for decennaries. Perchance developers in Apple ca n't do it because they ca n't chance `` UserFriendlyWay ''!

2. Millimeter

Anothernonsense. 3G Telephone with BEST Browser, rich E-mail and no MMS. That Holds not so difficult. Realy.

3. Samariums

Sm ( Text Messaging ) is maked in from start. But how? You ca n't forward your message, you ca n't direct to somebody if is not in your Reference Book. That is REALY easy to make.

4. Bluetooth

Again no `` sensible '' account why Bluetooth iscrippled. Top-of-the-class telephone with GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G/WiFi/GPS and no Bluetooth!!!!!

Sometimes people will value thing 's that are not there to a higher degree thing 's that are there. Multi Touchscreen, Screen Quality, Cyberspace Connectivity are best in family. Endeavour features now in2.0 are competitory with RIM 's.

I simply desire that following version will restore some if not all those `` easy '' features.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Momma Needs Assistance at Zero in Austin Texas

Acquisition WHEN Mum NEEDSHELP At Zero in Austin

A home member 's narrative:

It was n't until my mother was in her mid 70 Holds that I commenced to inquire if it was safe for her to be populating solely. While I cognized this day would come at some point, I holded n't worried overmuchly about her when my begetter was still live; once they retired they fall under a routine that worked from them to negociate their day-by-day obligations and staying safe and healthy.

My sis and Ibegan to observe a modification in my mother after the decease of my begetter a couple of geezerhood before; naturally for a period she receded from many of her societal activities and commenced to drop her diet and the care of her menage to get through the bereavement period.

Webecame refered, when after a few geezerhood, it maked n't look like things were consulting for her; she still was n't assay to take back control of her life. My mother holded e'er been so disturbed about holding her place spotless, I can retrieve as a tike being berate if one decoration was posed inapposite, or if I maked n't do my bed first thing in the morn.

So it was such a drastic modification to see bungled nutrient sitting in the fridge, dust assemblage on shelves and counters, and mags and books cache under the furniture. I got to halt by her house more oftentimes to seek and give her a paw; I make a point that she holded a well-stocked fridge of nutritive nutrients, and occasionally straighten out the place.

Being at her spot more ofttimes too letted me to watch things, and I recognise she holded been overlooking more that I initially considered; I checked the dates on her medicaments and compared them to the figure of pills in the bottles, unfortunately I encountered that she was n't taking them on docket.

I too bumped a stack of unopened mail on her counter under a mound of throwaways and catalogs; it looked like some of it holded been there for hebdomads, intending she might not hold been paying her measures not delayed. I cognise it was clip to get mortal to assist my mother around the house and maintain course of things, since it was getting to be bay for her. I was still working full clip and could n't fuck on my ain, so I named inwards reinforcements.

A friend holded urged Home Instead Senior Care
, so I reached them. They assisted mammy during the hebdomad and I would come across on the weekends when I was n't working. Now I can rest insured that her house is clean; she Holds getting regular, healthy repasts; her mail is being opened and her measures paid; and most importantly, she holds somebody to remind her to take her medicines. These years my mother is more but getting by, she Holds goodly cared for, healthy and contented.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

What difference make cupping laboratories in source brand?

Closely ten eld ago, Paul Katzeff, Gouge Hoskyns, Byron Corrales and Doctor Christoper Bacon maked an enterprisingness to make cupping laboratories for husbandman in Nicaragua, to permit the manufacturers to savour their javas for defects and profile, which would furnish them with a different sense of ownership and pridefulness, increasing productiveness and promoting developmental and agricultural modification and ontogenesis. Katzeff stated his end was to give the powerfulness to the sodbusters by taking them to the U.S. to encounter with roasters and cuppas here, and to present them to the cupping procedure. `` So I stated, I hold the money, you say me if you desire to make the laboratories. ' ''

This morn 's panel was some a timeline and jubilation of these four visionaries ' early accomplishments, instead than a shop on how to launch similar laboratories elsewhere, though I desire there are seminars to it consequence being developed for the Atlanta symposium.

Byron Corrales, the first to mouth about the impact from the manufacturers ' point of position, holds java agriculture in his blood: he is a third-generation sodbuster who saw the impact of the cupping laboratories on his house farm firsthand.

Dent Hoskyns and Dr. Christopher Bacon furnished their ain penetrations into the labor. Bacon, a investigator and reader on sustainability at UC Santa Cruz, discourse the success of the cupping laboratories you bet they transformed the Nicaraguan java community. `` We are speaking about something that altered our lives and modified the lives of the people we 're working with, '' he stated. Hoskyns, the laminitis of the Ethical Trade and Investment firm, verbalise about forming cooperatives and giving the manufacturers the powerfulness. `` With the new relationship javas, the powerfulness of the importer and the exporter, whose applied to wine and dine each other, holds dispel. ''

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Paul Katzeff, a fable among java professionals and a innovator in her own right ( he was presented a life accomplishment awarding last dark; I 'm sure we 'll hold picture of that upward afterwards today ), verbalise about the generation of the Nicaragua programthe firstly in a three-part beginning cupping-lab go-ahead.

`` I 've been working with this panel for eight geezerhood. I was giving a address in Nicaragua about organic java. It was n't constituent of my address, but I enquire them how many of them holded savour their ain java, '' he told. `` Cypher raised their mitt. I inquired again, I conceived perhaps they were being diffident. But still nonentity raised their mitt. While the following somebody was verbalise, I indited a four-page, $ 400, 000 proposal on xanthous legal paper with no transcripts. A yr afterwards I got a call telling, Supposition what... ' ''

Paul Katzeff

Katzeff stated that the most important component in launching this cupping relationship with the Nicaraguan husbandman ( and afterward with manufacturers in Ruanda and Uganda ), was to permit them do their ain picks. `` Let the turn ' or no spell ' determination to be done by the people who are attending be making all the work, '' he stated. `` Hold a program, work on making a timeline that everyone understands. Ever recollect that people gravitate toward complexness if given that chance. ''