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My own rugby "career" kind of petered out when I got to university due to indolence and crappy arthritis ridden joints have meant I've long given thoughts of playing again. That's still a source of disappointment to em. As a schoolboy I played as hooker, unlikely as that seems, and we enjoyed a fantastic run. We arrived one winter's night at the Norwich Rugby Club ground, to contest the final of the Norfolk Under-16s Rugby schools cup (or something like that anyway) almost without realising. Up to that point we'd never been in any danger of losing, not because the teams we'd played had been especially bad, but because we really were pretty good. Not unnaturally, we were pretty teed up for the game, and we had a lot of support especially from the other school teams. At one point a girl (I forget who) shouted, as enjoyed my sole moment of running rugby, "Come On Higgy, you're wearing my shirt". I don't know if the school really was so poor that the girl hockey team shared shirts with boys football and rugby, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Anyway, we lost. We went behind early on, and sort of fell apart in the second half. I still remember the feeling coming off park at the end of that game. It's why I always, win or lose, cry like a baby at the end of important games like today's against Ireland.
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public static java.util.Iterator TransformIterator(java.util.Iterator iterator, UnaryFunction transform)
A TransformIterator applies a UnaryFunction to each element in the sequence, returning the function result at each step.
Say you have a list of some complex type, and you want to find on by name. You could (caution! trivial example follows)
Iterator i = list.iterator();
while(i.hasNext()) {
MyComplexObject mco = (MyComplexObject)i.next();
if(mco.GetName().equals(theSearchName))
.. do something
}
// did I find it or not?
// might have to check a state variable here to work it out
// anyway - do whatever the right thing is here
or you could
MyComplexObject mco = (MyComplexObject)Mango.find(
Mango.TransformIterator(list.iterator(),
Adapt.ArgumentMethod("GetName"),
theSearchName);
if(mco != null)
... found!
else
... not
Of course, you could also use Mango.findIf with a Predicate if that looks nicer to you. Or any one of a dozen other ways. I grant that (MyComplexObject)find(Mango.TransformIterator(list.iterator(), Adapt.ArgumentMethod("GetName"), theSearchName); looks like a mouthful, and doesn't appear especially Javay. However, the real power of this stuff isn't in contrived little examples like this, it's in the ability to build Predicate and UnaryFunction stacks are runtime. Lets say you want to search your MyComplexObject space on several variables. You could do it the conventional way, with lots of loops and if ladders and what not. Or you build a single Predicate object at runtime which combines all the tests together using Mango.And, Mango.Or and friends. Then apply Mango.findIf or whatever, and it all comes down to almost no code at all. And then your boss wants a new search term. Predicates make that easy as pie.[Add a comment]
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kal: aye
kal: we is different
kal: we rock
jez: we r00l
kal: they all suck
kal: we is l33t
kal: is that right ?
jez: word
jez: or whatever it is the kidz say these days
kal: is that word 11 ?
jez: oh, do the hip kids say openoffice now then
jez: "ain't that the truth"
jez: "openoffice, brother, openoffice"
Related: a new kind of punctuation.
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I've used other bits of Boost in other things, and it is a top bit of work. Check all of it out, not just Spirit (although Spirit does rock - have a look at this for instance, Wave: a Standard conformant C++ preprocessor library).
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I want Writer to generate correct markup - that's why it's in the SAX directory, not in examples. It can then acts as both an exemplar Filter implementation, as well as a useful filter in its own right. Writer is implemented as a filter, rather than as an end SAX event consumer, so it can be added at any point in a SAX pipeline. Say you were building some complex pipeline which does all kinds of clever transformation. You could slip a Writer in at each stage, each directing its output to a different file and so capture the XML at every stage. What a rocking debug tool that would be :)
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I've also verified, on Windows using VC++.Net at least, that Arabica works with the latest parser releases - that's Expat 1.95.6, libxml 2.5.4. and Xerces 2.2.0. With VC++.Net, Xerces actually puts itself into its own namespace, so there are fixes for that in CVS. The other things worked fine. Maybe tomorrow I'll have time to build it under Linux.
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"According to mycomicspage.com, the entirety of Bloom County will be re-published on their site, starting St. Paddy's day, and at a "highly accelerated" rate of one week every two days, until the entire strip is up. In addition -- an extra-special bonus for us Berke Breathed fans -- his college predecessor, Academic Waltz, will also be run. One caveat: it's subscription-based. However, for $10, I'd call it a huge bargain. I'm signing up."
Me too. Bloom County is absolutely my favourite newspaper strip - in fact it's one of my favourite comics full stop. It ran in The Guardian for several years, and it's successor Outland ran in The Sunday Times, although it was stuck in the kiddies section where it didn't really belong. $10 is an utter, utter bargain. Do it.
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This is bizarre. A fish speaks and it still gets killed and chopped up. How amazing does a miracle have to be these days?
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The sparkies start the rewiring this morning. After that it's floors, roof, tearing down walls and jiggling the bathroom. Looking forward to it so much it hurts.
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Swapping clubcards with your mates is mildly subversive - "What the? we had him tagged as a vegan and now he's buying tons of red meat" - but this is just fantastic. Fight the power (while still enjoying a small discount)!
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Leaned that early on in my what I laughing call my career - always, always be polite and pleasant with the secretarial and admin staff. Never be sarky, pushy, rude or try to get in their pants. They know how a place works, and if they like you, you'll never get stuck.
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Back at the OU, I attended a seminar on Martian geology. In reference to a surface feature that looked remarkably like silt run out from flooding, the woman speaking (who's name escapes me) said something like we're not really sure what causes these, it could be this or that "or, God forbid, surface water".
I've got to say that the BBC set a new highwater mark of science reporting in this article.
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So, what was in the box? [added 14th Mar 2003]
It rattled. [added 14th Mar 2003]
The JezUK Network Ops Centre consists of
an 8-port 3Com OfficeConnect hub (used to use 2 when Nat's PC was in another room),
a Linksys Router/Hub (used a normal router until it died, then PCWorld only had this in stock),
a Netgear ME102 Wireless AP, and
a SURFboard cable modem as supplied by Telewest.
The cable modem is ace. It just works.
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I'd been thinking about using some of my copious free time to take the luggable for a stroll around the city centre, to see what I could see.
Just grabbed NetStumbler. The docs say it knows nothing about NetGear stuff, but it seems to be picking up the right stuff from my little AP. Perhaps it's worth a go.
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The doorbell rings, and I trot downstairs expecting to see the postie. I open the door and see a man and a woman. The woman has a clipboard - maybe a market researcher I think. Then the bloke flashes his badge like he's on NYPD Blue. Argh! It's the filth! The first thing they say is it's nothing to worry about.
Our address had been given to them as somewhere where a girl they were looking for might be living. I said it wasn't, they said it's nothing to worry about again, then left. They seemed in a bit of a hurry. I went back to reviewing Kal's paper for XMLEurope. It's not quite as exciting.
jez_higgins: no
jez_higgins: they were wearing t-shirts and stuff
jez_higgins: kind of Next cataloguey [added 13th Mar 2003]
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Rock and Roll!
Alien Life Search Inches Forward - more at Wired.
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- The first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity.
- The threat of war in Iraq is driving increasing numbers of Americans to British and international news web sites in search of the broader picture.
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Really, can work get any more exciting?!?!?!?!?
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Phil and Eddie is named for Phil Elliott and Eddie Campbell, two comics artists who have been significant influences on my own meagre work. Together with Glenn Dakin, they are (in no particular order) my own little comics holy trinity.
My initial idea was to draw Phil in the style of Phil Elliott and Eddie in the style of Eddie Campbell. I quickly realised that I wasn't anywhere near good enough with the pen to do this, and it was, in any case, a stupid idea that just wouldn't work. I do like to think, though, that the tone of the strip would, just about, fit into a Gimbley or an Alec strip. At a push. Maybe.
In the comic, Phil's speech was patterned on my then works-chum Phil Bland. Eddie's speech is mine.
We never really had this conversation. Not quite.
The axe swinging pose, and the sound effects are taken from Thrud the Barbarian, while the tongues-out-eyes-as-crosses thing comes from Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe
All this in a comic nine panels long. I didn't have an original thought in my head.
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And this is nothing like targetted advertising.
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P.S. Care to explain that particular handle?
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- http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/xml/story/0,10801,78957,00.html
- http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/cl/Bma-versim-altova.RqOQ_DFS.html
- http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,909669,00.asp
- http://www.codingtheweb.com/projects/newslog/portal/15_1.htm
- http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030228/285043_1.html
- http://www.bindingpoint.com/
- http://www.perfectxml.com/
- http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/cb_headline.cgi?
&story_file=bw.022803/230595043&directory=/google&header_file=header.htm&footer_file= - http://www.altova.de/press/2003-02-28_versim.pdf (kind of obvious these two)
- http://www.altova.com/press/2003-02-28_versim.pdf
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