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February 5, 2010
speak2Originally uploaded by gwennie2006Nothing makes people so
worthy of compliments as receiving them.One is more delightful
for being told one is delightful -- just as one isangrier for
being told one is angry.Katherine F. Gerould
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by Matthew O. Smith on February 5, 2010 08:31 AM
February 3, 2010
Valentine's Day Gift Deals - Exclusive Offers and Discounts
Deal - Best Price Cheap Sale Items Review Wholesale Sale
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that special someone? Valentine's Day deals have been rolling
in and we will continue to update as more become available.
Techbargains has many exclusive coupons and offers on jewelry,
travel, flowers and more: Flowers,
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by Matthew O. Smith on February 3, 2010 02:57 PM
February 2, 2010
Justice league under new management..Originally uploaded by
Gaks DesignsTry a Google Search for "Find Chuck Norris" and
Press "I'm Feeling Lucky"
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by Matthew O. Smith on February 2, 2010 03:16 PM
February 1, 2010
Romance Your Sweetheart with the $99 Valentine's Day Package
Surprise your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day with the Utah
Shakespearean Festival Romance Package. This romantic summer
getaway includes tickets to the Festival’s production of Jane
Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” and a certificate for dinner at
the Garden House of Cedar City. All packages will be shipped
free of charge with a special
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by Matthew O. Smith on February 1, 2010 07:48 AM
January 21, 2010
I came across this article on flirting with your sweeite. Well
worth a read.Flirt With the One You Love -- Why You Should
Flirt With Your Spouse: "One of the things the two of you did
when you first met and started dating was to flirt with one
another. You were able to convey your intentions in a playful
and romantic way through your flirting with each other."
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by Matthew O. Smith on January 21, 2010 12:49 PM
January 20, 2010
The Six Steps In Any Project - Visual FoxPro Wiki: "The Six
Steps In Any Project1) Unbounded enthusiasm2) Total
disillusionment3) PANIC!!4) Frantic search for the guilty5)
Punishment of the innocent6) Promotion of the uninvolved"
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by Matthew O. Smith on January 20, 2010 02:25 PM
January 19, 2010
Classes - Utah Marriage - utahmarriage.org: "'Love is in the
Air ' A Northern Utah Marriage CelebrationDate: 02 12 2010Time:
4:00 PM - 9:30 PMLocation: Weber State University Shepherd
Union Building Join us for an evening featuring workshops from
marriage and family professionals entertainment by Greg Simpson
and keynote speaker Dr. John Lund. Tickets are $25 couple of
$15 single if
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by Matthew O. Smith on January 19, 2010 03:07 PM
January 17, 2010
Rainbow LemonsOriginally uploaded by CoorianderThe woman
applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far
too qualified for the job.The foreman frowned and said, "I have
to ask you this:"Have you had any actual experience in picking
lemons?""Well, as a matter of fact, I have! I've been divorced
three times, owned 2 Plymouths and I voted for Obama."
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by Matthew O. Smith on January 17, 2010 10:09 AM
January 13, 2010
OhGizmo! � Archive � [CES 2010] RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests
Electricity From WiFi Signals: "This little box has, inside it,
some kind of circuitry that harvests WiFi energy out of the air
and converts it into electricity. This has been done before,
but the Airnergy is able to harvest electricity with a high
enough efficiency to make it practically useful: on the CES
floor, they were able to
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by Matthew O. Smith on January 13, 2010 09:55 AM
January 12, 2010
Google Chrome has an outstanding issue that I hope gets
resolved: Issue 31482 - chromium - Huge amount of goats
teleportedHas the government looked into this goat
transportation issue yet? Is it part of health care reform
package? Will we ever find the goats? What is google going to
do with all those goats anyway?
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by Matthew O. Smith on January 12, 2010 01:35 PM
January 2, 2010
How do you feel today?Originally uploaded by sapahoA while back
a wife posted of how she felt neglected by the time her husband
spent on the computer and most particular on the social
networking sites. Time passes and the shoe is on the other
foot. Now the husband is feeling neglected by her computer use.
Her response: now you know how it feels.Now were going to play
a little game. It is
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by Matthew O. Smith on January 2, 2010 08:48 AM
December 19, 2009
Sunset roadOriginally uploaded by Tambako the JaguarHe who
chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leadsto.
It is the means that determine the end.Harry Emerson
Fosdick(1878-1969, American minister)
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by Matthew O. Smith on December 19, 2009 10:36 AM
November 24, 2009
November 18, 2009
According to recovery.gov, the 2nd congressional district of
Utah has received $802,465,348 from the federal government in
stimulus money and has saved 2,240.3 jobs. Doing the simple
math with big numbers, that gives us $358,243.46 for each job.
Those are some big numbers that pose lots of questions:How do
you save 3/10 of a job?How do they know so precisely how many
jobs were saved?How much
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by
Matthew O. Smith on November 18, 2009 07:22 PM
October 23, 2009
September 8, 2009
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of
receivinganything in return.-- Peace Pigrim
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by Matthew O. Smith on September 8, 2009 10:12 AM
September 1, 2009
Wireless Electricity, Explained | Design & Innovation |
Fast Company: "Last month, Eric Giler, the CEO of
WiTricity--the most technically advanced and ambitious company
in the bunch--took the stage at TED Global to demonstrate the
technology. The video has just been posted to the web, and it's
amazing stuff. Watch as Giler walks through the magnectic field
conveying the energy without getting
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by Matthew O. Smith on September 1, 2009 03:02 PM
August 31, 2009
August 25, 2009
My daughters have a hard time finding swim wear. This is a good
place to look.Modest Swimwear - Juniors - Size 13: "Simply the
best fabric on the market! Nice 'beefy' weight and phenomenal
color absorption. Neck, back, and armholes cut a bit higher.
Ties in the back. A very comfortable suit. Tops and bottoms
sold separately. Choose print or solid."
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by Matthew O. Smith on August 25, 2009 08:15 PM
I saw an article about an elephant that had fallen into a
pit:Elephant rescue: "Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 we received
an urgent call from a nearby farm, Embori that borders the Mt.
Kenya Forest Reserve, reporting an elephant that had fallen
into a pit latrine and was totally stuck. The exhausted
elephant was surrounded by local community farmers, who were
threatening to kill the animal for meat
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by Matthew O. Smith on August 25, 2009 07:25 AM
July 22, 2009
Massive quake moves NZealand closer to Australia - Yahoo!
News: "A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has
moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists
said Wednesday."
by Matthew O. Smith on July 22, 2009 06:25 AM
July 14, 2009
It is true, things do come in threes. Yesterday I had three
code review related experiences.
1 - What was I thinking
I created a code review in
Crucible to share with my team. when it came time to do the
code review, Crucible hung. Strange. It has always been a good
product, why should it have problems now? Answer: 768 files is
probably not a reasonable code review. At just 10 minutes per
file that would be 128 hours for the entire review.
Lesson learned: Keep the code review to a reasonable size both
for the software and the people.
2 - Free book in the mail
I got a free book on code
reviews in the mail.
Best
Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review is a compilation of 10
practical essays from industry experts giving specific
techniques for effective peer code review. It is short but
looks like a good read.
3 - 5.0 for 5 users for $5 for 5 days deal
While I am a big fan of Crucible, it is not free software,
unless you work for a non-profit, like I do. It which case you
can use it for free. A competitor of Crucible,
CodeReviewer by
Smart Bear Software is running a deal where you can get a 5
user license for $5.00. It has some interesting features.
This comes from a conversation with a person at Smart
Bear:
From a big-picture perspective, the two tools are similar:
they automate the peer code review process. The biggest
difference is the level of support for what we refer to here
at Smart Bear as "pre-commit review." Both tools have good
support for doing "post-commit" code review; in other words,
creating a code review based on file revisions that have
already been checked in to version control. From what we've
seen in our customer base (over 20,000 licensed seats across
Code Collaborator and Code Reviewer combined), about half of
developers prefer to do pre-commit review and the other half
do post-commit review.
Crucible supports pre-commit review, but not nearly as
thoroughly as Code Reviewer. A key reason for that is that
Crucible does *not* include a client-side application, with
the exception of plugins that they do provide for the Eclipse
and IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environments. Please
note, however, that the current version of their Eclipse
plugin does not provide any support for creating pre-commit
reviews (and further, it only supports Subversion).
In contrast, Code Reviewer's client side tools consist of: a
cross-platform GUI, a cross-platform command-line utility, an
Eclipse plugin, and a p4v plugin (for Perforce users). These
tools automate the creation of pre-commit reviews by using
the developer's version control tools to figure out what
files have changed in the developer's local working copy and
then Code Reviewer packages up the necessary local changes
and creates the review accordingly. For a pre-commit review,
Crucible makes you do all of that manually (with the
exception of when you are using their IntelliJ IDEA plugin):
you have to create your own diffs, etc.
So that's the biggest single difference between the two
tools. Some additional points to note:
1. The list of supported version control systems is similar,
but not identical. Both tools can, in theory, work with *any*
version control system that can produce diffs. Crucible
provides specific support for post-commit review creation
with CVS, Perforce, Subversion, Git, and ClearCase. Code
Reviewer provides specific support for pre-commit and
post-commit review creation with CVS, Perforce, Subversion,
Git, Vault, and Mercurial (as a side note, Code Collaborator
provides specific support for 14 different version control
systems).
2. Support for iterative review. Code Reviewer has always
supported iterative review: the ability to upload multiple
revisions of a file(s) and make it easy for users to see the
most recent changes only (or all changes) and to keep it
straight which comments/defects were entered on which lines
of code, even as those lines of code move around because of
insertions/deletions across the different revisions.
Historically, this is not something that Crucible supported,
but they are claiming support for this in their just released
v2.0. Note, however, that it appears to only work with
post-commit reviews, unlike in Code Reviewer where it works
with both pre-commit and post-commit reviews. I haven't
tested it enough to figure out if their 2.0 release can
accurately move comments/defects with lines of code through
multiple revisions of a file.
3. Real time chat. The Crucible user interface for entering
comments/defects works well, but it is not real-time. If
someone else enters a comment/defect in the same file that
you are working in, you won't see that comment/defect until
you refresh your browser page. In Code Reviewer, this works
automatically. I realize this might not be useful in a "code
buddy" environment, but we do have many customers who use
this facility as essentially an IM-client in order to chat
about the code in real time.
Can't hardly go wrong for 5 bucks.
>Summary
by Matthew O. Smith on July 14, 2009 05:06 AM
July 22, 2008
Three times a day,
Cleverly puts the 42nd page of a
book up. There is a wide variety of subjects and a single page
can be enough to completely catch you attention. Check out a
sample:
Wisdom
from the 42nd Page: Holes
by Matthew O. Smith on July 22, 2008 08:01 AM
May 15, 2008
PortletWork: Testing Portlets with Jetty, Pluto and
JWebUnit: "After my last two entries, I've gotten some
questions about using pluto embedded in jetty to create
automated integration tests for JSR 168 portlets. Using the
maven-jetty-plugin for running the portlets is great for fast,
iterative development. But it can't be used to run automated
integration tests. Remembering an excellent article from
Johannes Brodwall's blog about integration testing with Jetty
and JWebUnit, I wanted to extend his approach to use the
embedded jetty-pluto setup I have created. This turned out to
be to be quite easy."
by Matthew O. Smith on May 15, 2008 10:36 AM
December 11, 2007
27.SEP.07Bryan Alan Baird 27.SEP.07Claudia A. Pope
27.SEP.07Duane Hymas Hansen 27.SEP.07Glen Johnson Behling
27.SEP.07Marie Moss Peacock 27.SEP.07Tina Sherlin Fuller Webb
25.SEP.07Glenn Eugene Ray 25.SEP.07Mary Hogge Blackhurst
25.SEP.07Mary Rae Kelvington Selin 25.SEP.07Melvin Hess
Pederson 25.SEP.07Ronald K. Devereaux 25.SEP.07Scott Reid
20.SEP.07Paul D. Seiger 20.SEP.07Kay Rich Butters 18.
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by Matt on December 11, 2007 04:56 AM
April 10, 2007
March 16, 2007
From a recent game I had against Tim, comes this board
position. I was white and not in a very enviable position with
Queen, Bishop and Knight all being under attack. Turns out to
be a nice White to move and mate in two puzzle.
Post in the comments your answer. Remember,
no
cheating.
by Matt on March 16, 2007 07:19 AM
February 6, 2007
2 Therefore let us go up; let us be strong like unto Moses;
for he truly spake unto the waters of the Red Sea and they
divided hither and thither, and our fathers came through, out
of captivity, on dry ground, and the armies of Pharaoh did
follow and were drowned in the waters of the Red Sea.
Nephi continues to encourage his brothers by reminding of the
story of Moses and the parting of the Red Sea. The story
illustrates several points that directly relate to Nephi and
his brothers returning to Jerusalem to get the brass plates
from Laban.
First, that God was able to defeat the army of Pharaoh. Laman
and Lemuel were justifiably frightened of Laban's guards. They
were just 4 young men against trained soldiers. They really
would not stand a chance of overcoming by force. Laban had also
proved that he was greedy and bloodthirsty and had no problem
ordering their death.
In many ways Laban's actions paralleled those of Pharaoh. Both
were greedy, bloodthirsty and had little regard for human life.
Both commanded an overwhelming army. Both were acting against
the will of the Lord. Both armies were defeated without a sword
needing to be raised. God did the fighting.
The story reminded the brothers that God will fight the battles
of his servants.
Second, God commands the elements. Laban was able to command
many men, but he had no control over the elements. Laban might
command an army, yet god could destroy that army. The arm of
God is mightier than the arm of man. We should put out trust in
the arm of God.
Lastly, that they should have faith.
by Matt on February 6, 2007 09:00 AM
November 6, 2006
Since we are using the
GenealogyJ
GEDCOM importer, might as well integrate the rest of the
project so we can have all the cool views. This will require
examining the source code of the
GenealogyJ
project and determine how to map the
Topoged
Database to the data format expected by
GenealogyJ
by
Matt on November 6, 2006 06:38 AM
October 26, 2006
January 16, 2006
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by Matt on January 16, 2006 11:39 AM
November 10, 2005
As sewer is starting out in Tcl, I've included a link to the
Tcl Chatroom for getting
help in developing sewer.
Also on Usenet, the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup. One of the most
exceedingly helpful & friendly newsgroups on all of
Usenet.
by
Matt on November 10, 2005 08:34 AM
