Patrick Lightbody: Technology

FreeRoller acting up?

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:06:08 GMT

Maybe it's just me, put are all the blogs that are using FreeRoller totally screwing up with their RSS feeds? I get the strangest RSS behavior from folks like Rickard, Ara, and Anthony. Makes it hard to see what's new and what is from October. I believe Mike just commented on a FreeRoller post from October, maybe he is having the same trouble?

Jumping on the bandwagon

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:37:08 GMT

Look at Nanning. Nice one!

[Joe's Jelly]

OK, I guess it's time I too hop on the AOP bandwagon. Basically, I know nothing about AOP save a few of Rickard's ramblings I've read and a couple web pages I read back when AspectJ was being heavily promoted (I hear AspectJ is dead now, is that right? A professor of mine worked on AspectJ when he was at Xerox Parc, maybe I should talk to him about all this AOP magic).

Petriwhat?

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:33:40 GMT

Petri Net Reading. The Application of Petri Nets to Workflow Management - van der Aalst (ResearchIndex) is probably what I'd call the starting-point in your journey through CiteSeer to accumulate knowledge of Petri nets. Brett Morgan had asked that I produce references to the papers I read to go from zero to Petri in 2 days. Overall, W.M.P. van der Aalst seems to be the shinig light in the world of Petri nets for workflow systems. For what it's worth, petridish supports coloured petrinets, but werkflow does not take advantage of them. Werkflow has exactly one colour of token flowing through the network:... [bob mcwhirter]

Man, I really should go read up on this stuff when I get a chance, though I'm sure most of it will be well over my head :)

OpenSymphony Guideline Document

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:51:25 GMT

A long time ago I promised I'd get a "guideline" document for "OpenSymphony". Well that item is still on my task list and it doesn't appear to be getting done. But I think I'm going to actually focus on getting this done. Joe Ottinger is also going to be helping me out, so hopefully in the not-too-distant future a concrete guideline covering everything from a high mission statement to low level details like logging and third party libraries will be covered.

Bye-bye RAID

Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:37:40 GMT

Oh... and about Battlefield. I finally got everything fixed when I discovered that the RAID configuration I was using is known to screw up multimedia performance on VIA chipsets. So bye-bye RAID. Wasn't really that useful anyway.

Battlefield 1942

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:22:35 GMT

So I bought Battlefield 1942 today to run on my new Athlon XP 2200 and Geforce4 Ti4200 upgrade. Pretty sweet game, except that it doesn't run that great on this setup, which is amazing, since my setup is almost as good as it comes. For example, the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo benchmarks at 157 FPS at 1024x768 with highest details. In 1942 sometimes gets down to 10FPS when the action gets heavy... gimme a break! OK, enough fun and games, I need to get back to work... this 24 hour long computer upgrade has wasted too much time as it!

Radio Rules Again

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:34:46 GMT

What's Up With Radio. Something is going on with almost all of the Radio weblogs I usually read (including rebolutionary and James Strachan's Weblog) - JavaScript errors out the wazoo! Someone over at Radio screwed up and should fix this immediately as it makes Radio sites a real pain in the arse to read. [All Things Java]

Yup, I noticed this too... once again Radio "impresses" me. Why can't people just make good, simple software?