Elias TorresI'm working on a tagline. I promise.On Paul Graham- March 25, 2008 If you haven't read Paul Graham's "boss" essay, please make sure you do. Jeff Atwood describes it as a perfect example of participatory narcissism, but I think it'd be more useful to highlight the never dying natural instinct of telling everyone around you that if they are not doing what ...http://torrez.us/archives/2008/03/25/564/ The Web FTW- March 11, 2008 If you ever sat down with TimBL and got him going on a good discussion (most likely it had to be about Semantic Web nowadays) you'll know that not much has changed. The vision hasn't changed much. The man hasn't changed much. The Web still does the same. It's just ...http://torrez.us/archives/2008/03/10/563/ COM and ATL Books: Free, just pay for shipping.- March 8, 2008 Back in the day my programming was mostly Windows, specifically COM and ATL. I really enjoyed it because most of that was used to create Sash, a platform for building "weblications." Much of that is long gone and we now have Web 2.0, jQuery and much more. Hence, books I ...http://torrez.us/archives/2008/03/08/562/ Blueprint and Prince XML- March 8, 2008 I'm not sure if this ever happens to you, but I have now volunteered twice to turn very manual processes at my Church into almost fully automatic Web applications. The first was a scheduling application of many different activities and their respective leaders and helpers to make sure there were ...http://torrez.us/archives/2008/03/08/561/ Initializing Java Maps- March 8, 2008 Last week as I was performing a code review when I stumbled upon a little gem. I use Java almost everyday but I had never seen a concise way to initialize a Map in Java. For arrays I do: String allowed = new String "texthtml", "textjson"; But what about Maps import java.util.; ...http://torrez.us/archives/2008/03/08/560/ Chinese Visa- March 5, 2008 One of the most important steps in getting ready for my www2008 session this year is my visa. I already registered for the conference and made my hotel reservations, but before I get the plane tickets, I better get my Chinese visa. The last time I had visa problems was ...http://torrez.us/archives/2008/03/04/559/ |