#Stop the madness
Marv said Yikes, it's horrible! [added 30th Aug 2005]
mattb said is that "fan art"??
[added 30th Aug 2005] Pete Ashton said It's the eyes. The eyes are just wrong.
[added 30th Aug 2005] anonymous said IM ya ma ahahaha [added 26th Feb 2008]
JacobC. [e] said No that is barney humpin a kid!!
[added 26th Mar 2008] anonymous said leave Barney alone, he's cool... [added 14th Apr 2008]
He's not cool, he's an evil menace to society. [added 14th Apr 2008]
anonymous said Cut off barney's head [added 20th May 2008]
anonymous said what is this?
michael jackson in disguise!! [added 24th Jun 2008]
mango said does the kid actually LIKE it??? [added 24th Jun 2008]
anonymous said hey i was that kid [added 24th Jun 2008]
anonymous said he is way out of your leage [added 24th Jun 2008]
barney said leave me alone. just coz im purple... [added 24th Jun 2008]
Luiza said Fuck you with your stupid comments! can't you appreciate the idea of going back to childhood when you want to 'Stop the madness'?!? [added 4th Sep 2008]
Demonictorment [e] said Kids does not need a stupid dino but kids need learn with happy thiings.. sodomized by barney yes they are. The inventors of that ironic sadness are on the seas of money, haha
[added 4th Dec 2008] Habano Anarquisto [e] said Why can't we teach our children about the difference between right and wrong earlier and on our own and not leave it to some fluttering purple FAGGOT. Oh, I know! YOU'RE PANSIES THAT'S WHY!
[added 6th Jan 2009] Habano Anarquisto [e] said If we leave our children to be brainwashed by these people so early in life, they will end up being corperate puppets!
[added 6th Jan 2009] ??? [e] said oh no you are all idiots its a cartoon kids like it so just accept it
[added 16th Feb 2009] barny said do i look fat??? [added 5th May 2009]
Anony fish said Guys, your being immature. It's a kids cartoon. My two-year-old brother likes it. 'JacobC.- no that is barney humpin a kid' get a grip, is that all you do in your spare time? Poke fun at a CARTOON ANIMAL! I agree that Barney is mad, and I lolled a t 'stop this madness' but Jacob.C's comment was going to far. [added 18th May 2009]
Margret Thatcher [e] said Hey Look Yeh It Is Quite Odd But I'm 14 and i can't hardly remember anything Barney Told Me. BRING BACK REAL CARTOONS OF TOM AND JERRY AND SHIZ WHERE THEY CAN WHACK EACH OTHER ON THE HEAD!!!
[added 8th Jun 2009] chloe said your al mother fuckers leave the painting alone i think it looks alright [added 3rd Oct 2009]
anonymous said Touchy Touchy Feely Feely
poor kid XD [added 30th Oct 2009]
anonymous said wtf [added 17th Dec 2009]
Kedvax 17 [e] said Wow here I am reading this in 2010 and her you are reading my comment and now you are probably thinking "Wow" what a random thing the internet is... (I was looking for pictures on Google images of "madness" when I found this)
[added 15th Mar 2010] Dalila [e] said kedvax I agree. This stupid post is form 2005, and now five years later we're here
[added 23rd Apr 2010] emily [e] [w] said i know cant u belive it :} dunbos stop bein drama queens (lol)
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ugga [e] said wata piece of wierd crap
[added 8th Jun 2010] anonymous said barney is a dinasour with ne imagination stuck is finga up is bum and died of constipatoion lol [added 5th Oct 2010]
Haley [e] [w] said Creappy
[added 14th Oct 2010] anonymous said Mr Mercer ....... [added 4th Nov 2010]
anonymous said i dont know who to feel moast sorry fore [added 1st Feb 2011]
ghj [e] [w] said echt BÄHH!!!!!!!!!!
[added 9th Feb 2011]
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#[Arabica]DOM/Text node fixes
Terris Linenbach wrote:
> Creating Text from a Node:
>
> explicit Text(const Node
& rhs) :
CharacterData(rhs)
> {
> if(dynamic_cast*>(rhs.impl()) == 0)
> throw std::bad_cast("Cannot cast Node to Text");
> } // Text
>
> c:\source\arabica\src\DOM\Text.h(26) : error C2039: 'impl' : is not a
> member of 'DOM::Node'
>
> By the way, instead of requiring dynamic_cast you could use getNodeType() ..
... which is what I've done elsewhere. I have no idea why this didn't
get fixed back then - probably because I didn't have tests for it. Now
I do :)
Fixes committed DOM/Text.h r1.2, DOM/CharacterData.h r1.2 and
DOM/Simple/CharacterDataImpl.h r1.5. Possibly more to follow.Also
DOM/CDATASection.h r1.3
DOM/Test.h r1.4
DOM/CharacterData.h r1.3 [added 30th Aug 2005]
terris [e] [w] said Thanks Jez! Arabica is great! I just switched from MSXML to libxml2 with no issues!
[added 1st Sep 2005] anonymous said I just noticed that NodeImpl.h uses dynamic_cast quite a lot. [added 21st Sep 2005]
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# Linux/Unix e-mail flaw leaves system wide open - Elm is one of the oldest email clients for Unix-like operating systems (including Linux), having gained popularity in the early 1990s. The application is a predecessor of such command-line e-mail clients as Mutt and Pine. Its users tend to be experienced Unix hands - the kind who run large, important systems, according to industry observers.
Industry observer? Next time I'll keep my gob shut.
mattb said Har har! I thought that would amuse you. I put it in my pitch and the editor said 'be sure to go big on that side of it!'
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# Finally got around to uploading the slides from our stream-a-poloza presentation back in April. The slides have the speakers' notes included, and frankly there's tons more information there (and jokes) than on the slides themselves. Once I sort a nice way of doing this in HTML, I'll get them online properly.
[
Oo.o v2 |
PowerPoint |
Oo.o v1]
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#[Arabica]DOM/utils/stream.h
Committed big changes to fix blatent bug in streaming namespace prefix declarations. It's still not perfect but it's vastly improved. It'll now make best efforts to declare namespaces as required. This is particularly useful if you serialising a subtree rather than a whole document. It's also useful if you've constructed the DOM by hand, rather than from a file.
terris [e] [w] said This was a huge fix for us. Many thanks. The thing I like about well-run open source projects like Arabica is that things that the project is lightning-responsive to its users' needs.
[added 1st Sep 2005]
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#[Arabica] Sometime you turn up a bug in a piece of code, and it makes you think am I so weird and what I'm doing so outrageous, that no one in the world has ever done this before? I've hit bugs in both the Crimson and Xerces parsers and in Ant's XSLT task, for instance, that seemed to so blatent and obvious it made me doubt me own sanity. Surely they couldn't have overlooked what I was seeing.
So apologies to Terris, who's wasted two hours on a bug it took me 30 seconds to fix. Committed a fix to Utils/convert_adator.h.
terris [e] [w] said I'm famous!
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#Why does Barney keep hugging the children?
I find a lot of kids' telly slightly unsettling (I've mentioned my fear of The Flumps before). Often the settings have no context and have a strange internal logic that I just don't get. The Bean, being a kid, clearly doesn't. The whacked-out weirdness of Boohbah is, for him, a source of entertainment, the trapped-in-a-world-they-didn't-create adventures of The Fimbles and their tingly feelings are simple amusements.
Not so Barney. He unsettles even the Bean. Recently, we suffered through one of his interminable programmes while waiting for Dora. I voiced my dislike and he agreed, "I don't like Barney either. Why does he keep hugging the children?"
I had no answer, because there is no answer. Why does Barney keep hugging the children?
Pete Ashton said Barney still exists?
I think we need t-shirts, bumper stickers, posters, the works. "Why does Barney keep hugging the children?" indeed. [added 22nd Aug 2005]
Not only does Barney exist, he's an instrument of torture : "In training, they forced me to listen to the Barney 'I Love You' song for 45 minutes. I never want to go through that again," one US operative told the magazine. [added 22nd Aug 2005]
Marc said Lock him up, he's clearly a child molestor. [added 22nd Aug 2005]
Gevs said If you think Barney is weird check out Big Cook Little Cook - probably the campest pair on CBeebies!
[added 23rd Aug 2005] Big Cook, Little Cook is top if indeed slightly camp. Although I guess we'd all be a bit camp if our cafe only ever served characters from nursery rhymes. They don't unsettle the Bean though.
Only Barney and his obsessive hugging of any child within his reach does that. I ask again, why does Barney keep hugging the children? [added 24th Aug 2005]
Gevs said because they are squashy????
[added 24th Aug 2005] They are by the time he's finished with them. [added 25th Aug 2005]
planetcutie said I think hus are the fuel that power American social society. I find all hugs creepy and unsettling, though, having only had one in my life.
[added 25th Aug 2005] planetcutie said for 'hus' read 'hugs'. And no, I'm not drunk. Yet.
[added 25th Aug 2005] But a few minutes spent contemplating an unbidden hug from a large furry purple dinosaur will send you screaming to the bottle. [added 25th Aug 2005]
Pete Ashton said I hugged Matthew once and can confirm his aversion.
[added 25th Aug 2005] Gevs said Oh God, I came in from the kitchen this morning to see my son with his arms wrapped around the TV screen in a futile attempt to hug.......Barney!!
[added 29th Sep 2006] CJ said I grew up watching Barney and I still can't get enough of it.
Barney hugs because he's a lovable dinosaur! Some kids need hugs... [added 30th Apr 2007]
anonymous said barney sucks [added 1st May 2007]
Don't hate [e] said Barney is adorable! If every child got hugs on a daily basis, letting them know that someone really cares about them, we wouldn't constantly lose them to suicide, gangs, identity issues, drugs, etc. Many children don't get love at home, so they search for it outside of the home.
[added 15th Aug 2007] bob mcanouymous said to the contrary,
i think Barney (and other such nonsensical tv) is the reason so many amrican and british children theese days have low i.q and attitude problems- it gives them a false sense of reality where everyone is happy and never has to work- a world were every- body seem druged up/manicly happy...
surely you are not suggestting that this is not dammaging at all- especilly when dump our two year olds in front of tv to watch a big green and purple dinosuar or a mole that rolls uphill and talks... (fimbles are another pet hate of mine along with teletubbies)- and then ignore them as we cook dinner!
i agree that it is troubleing the amount of children who do not get any attention or love- but barney is not the way.
in awnser to the origanal question i would say that he's probably trying to get cose enough to eat them. [added 7th Jan 2008]
Russ L said Would it be too glib to suggest that the simple solution to that is to NOT "dump out two year olds in front of TV... and then ignore them"?
[added 7th Jan 2008] tabitha and jordan [e] said haahh yeaa me and jordie think barneys' gay and that was funny about the planetcutie comment hahahlol
[added 15th Dec 2008] nadineeee :D [e] said okies well hi ^.^
BARNEY FREAKIN EATS KIDDDS!!!!!
STAY AWAY FRM THAT RASPIST!
HE'S FREAKIN MICHEAL JACKSON!
AND DOES ANY ONE BUT ME NOTICE FOR A KID'S PROGRAMME HE DOES NOT WEAR CLOTHES!!! FREAKIN NUDIST!!! :O [added 8th May 2009]
Leanna [e] said Barney is the reason why some kids have anxiety issues and engage in self injurious behaviors. Some of the have died as a result of depression caused by Barney. He has a negative impact on their fragile nervous systems.
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# From Birmingham Freecycle this morning:
Offering a talking barney THE purple dinosaur. Also OU course books
K260 Death and Dying.
bctruckin said I am looking for a Stedman's Drug Book. Preferably a 2006 or 2007 edition. I am doing medical transcription from home but I do not have a current drug book.
[added 30th Dec 2007] Ajao O A [e] said I Ajao is looking for a desktop computer and fax machine also a nitendo game.
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#[Arabica] Bizarrely, following the recent changes Arabica builds and the tests all run on Cygwin using gcc 4.0.1, resolving
my mysterious hang. It's good news though. On my main dev box, building the XPath test suite takes about a minute and a half. On my woefully under-powered-but-chugging-on-regardless Linux box, it takes several hours.
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#Because people expect a certain level of professionalism
Despite
what I once said, I like to make a point of always putting on trousers before going on the clock.
smellygit said What about a tie?
[added 22nd Aug 2005] "a certain level" ... there are limits, and a tie is waaaaay over the edge [added 22nd Aug 2005]
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#[Arabica] Got the latest changes going in gcc 4.0.1. It's fussier than VC7.1, but you feel better for using it.
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#[Arabica] I've parameterised all the headers (I think) anyway, which means for the next release the XPath engine will be headers-only, and should support -arbitrary string types. There's something cool about headers-only libraries.
Something I've never really done is really shake out Arabica with strings other than std::string and std::wstring. Now I have the XPath testsuite though, I have something large to work with. I'm going to write a really stupid and awkward string class (that doesn't have any public member functions, say) and then get everything to compile and work. Any std::string-isms in Arabica (perhaps a call to find, or iteration using begin and end) will be flushed out and can be picked up the string_adaptor class. Chances are it'll make no difference to anyone anyway, but I'll feel happier knowing I've had a go.
anonymous said It is difficult to impossible to have headerfile libraries when there are circular dependencies. It's very cool but it only works when your classes are fairly insulated from each other. This is probably a bad idea, but in these rare cases I have a single .cpp file that includes all of the .cpp files, and require that this .cpp file is added to a project.
I do this so that additional .cpp files can be added later without the need to modify a project.
Libraries are such a pain to deal with, on any platform. [added 19th Aug 2005]
terris [e] [w] said Arabica really handles templatized string types very well. We c++ programmers want to templatize the string type in our own classes but we instantly run into problems with "hard-coding" strings as default values and such.
template
class DateFormatter
{
public:
void formatDate( const StringT& = constDateFormat )
{
}
StringT& constDateFormat;
DateFormatter()
{
constDateFormat = "abcd";
}
}
Everything looks great until that last line of code. For wstrings, it needs to be L"abcd", not "abcd".
Arabica has a string_adaptor class that can convert from 8-bit C strings to any type of string with the correct conversion (utf8 to ucs2 for example).
The code looks something like...
typedef SAX::default_string_adaptor string_adaptorT;
constDateFormat = string_adaptorT().makeStringT("abcd");
Arabica isn't just an XML library! It provides a framework for working with various string classes and character encodings. Wish I could say more but I've got to get back to work. [added 19th Aug 2005]
If you've got circular dependencies that you can't solve with more than a forward declaration then you've got problems. Big problems.
Headers only libraries are nice because a) they don't need building seperately and b) only the bits you really, absolutely need get compiled into your application. [added 21st Aug 2005]
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#And windows ...
The rustle of binbags flapping in the wind is my companion no more.
Pete Ashton said I'm amazed they lasted that long. Do hope the parcel tape hasn't buggered up your paintwork too much...
[added 19th Aug 2005] It hasn't at all as far as I can tell. In any case, a bit of paint here and there is pretty small beer. We're getting large parts of the house redecorated actually, because there are scuffs and scratches and outright bloody great gouges in a lot of places. In the kitched, opposite the back door there are pieces of slate and glass stuck in the wall. [added 20th Aug 2005]
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#[Arabica] Three header files left to go, and I'm not even sure one of them needs any work.
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#We have scaffolding.
For some reason our scaffolders are quieter than everyone else's have been. No radios playing. No pole clanging about. I only know they're here because I could, if I wanted, climb out of my attic window and wander around without fear of plummetting to my death. Bonus.
Now it's up it won't be long before we have windows back upstairs, and Craig can get too relaying the roof.
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#[Arabica] EighteenTwenty out of twenty four XPath engine header files now parameterised on string type.
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#[Arabica] Cracking on with parameterising the XPath engine. It's going well and quickly, which is good. Interface to existing code should be minimal to none.
terris [e] [w] said Thank you. I appreciate this very much. Everyone who codes in modern C++ needs Arabica for more than just XML processing. My job is to do the education.
[added 24th Aug 2005]
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#[Arabica]Release updates
- If you want to pull the current release from CVS, pull on tag AUGUST2005
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/arabica login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/arabica co -P -r AUGUST2005 src
- There's a small bug in the example_xgrep project in the VC++ solution. It needs ..\..\ added to the Additional Include Directories setting on the Configuration Properties\C/C++\General page.
- Freshmeat announcement
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#[Arabica]Arabica Aug-05 known good builds
I have built Arabica Aug-05 using
- gcc 3.3.3 on Cygwin
- gcc 4.0.1 on Linux
- Visual C++.NET 2003 on Windows XP Professional
If you can add anymore to the list, please
let me know.
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#[Arabica]Arabica Aug-05 Release
First release for a while, with a big new feature - Arabica now includes an XPath engine. It implements all of the XPath 1.0 recommendation with the exception of the id(o) and lang(s) functions. This initial release only supports DOM::Node<std::string>.
There are assorted smaller bug fixes:
SAX: libxml2 declHandler is zero intialised
DOM: hasNamespaceURI/getNamespaceURI fixed
Assorted compliance fixes and fiddles to ensure clean builds using gcc 3.3.3 and gcc 4.x
Source tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabica/arabica-2005-august.tar.bz2?download
Source tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabica/arabica-2005-august.tar.gz?download
Source zip
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabica/arabica-2005-august.zip?download
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#[Arabica] Just committed some late changes.
- Added
setFeature and getFeature member functions to SAX2DOM::Parser. It's pretty obvious now that they should have been there from the beginning, but since I never needed them I didn't even notice they were missing.
- The MSXML wrapper now tries harder to instantiate an MSXML COM object. First it tries with for a
Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.4.0 object, then it tries for a Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.3.0 object and finally falls back to the (so called) version independent ID. In the event that it can't find any vestige of MSXML it throws a SAXException, rather than calling exit.
- MSXML wrapper destructor releases the COM object properly. Ages ago this was a bit of an issue, and not releasing was the lesser of two evils. Now it isn't, so I've fixed it.
- XPath doesn't need to define BOOST_SPIRIT_DEBUG any more. It now defines BOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE.
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#For future reference
- Taxi from Worcester Shrub Hill Station to Moseley, via Longbridge costs under forty pounds*
- When catching the last train attempt to be two minutes early, rather than two minutes late
*Given a taxi from New Street to my house is 6 pounds, that actually seems like very good value.Ken [e] said I think Frederick had an additional fee to pay at the fag end of the journey. Obviously bad planning to expect a Worcester taxi maestro to have the Brum knowledge, and also to leave a foreign visitor as Last Man Standing.
Mike and I have begun to form a concensus that the train was actually early, thus easily sidestepping guilt and feelings of letting the side down. I should have eaten quicker... [added 15th Aug 2005]
We could have looped the other way, but that would have really rung up the meter. Maybe we should have abandon the Worcester cab in Moseley and got a fresh new one? Ah well, we'll know for next year(!)
I think the train might have been a bit early too. If we'd only just missed it, we would have heard it go through as we hoofed up Shrub Hill Road. And it wasn't the speed of the eating, it was the waiter dawdling through the bill paying procedures ... [added 15th Aug 2005]
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#[Arabica] Terris and I have been kicking a couple of little configuration things about. If Sourceforge hadn't just taken cvs offline for a hardware change, I'd get it all done and dusted now. As it is, I'll have to wait.
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#Enjoy the Film - at the UGC
Chum Stephen writes
Sit down to watch War of the Worlds
Nokia title comes up
Dave "Weren't you in that?"
Steve "Errr , yeah."
Some films screen while Steve gets very nervous.
Dave "Isn't that your film?"
Steve "Errr, yeah."
Dave "What's going on?"
Steve "Err, yeah."
As part of their promotions for Nokia Shorts 2005, Enjoy The Film is one of five of the 2004 finalists are being shown at selected UGC screens across the country until Thursday 11th August. So if you are out at the cinema this week, you might be able to catch it. I was surprised myself to see it right before War of The Worlds last night. Personally I find it amusing that my film is now being screened just a few minutes before the FACT adverts I was satirising.
You can also watch it on Nokia's irritatingly Flashed up website. Choose 2004 Finalists and it's the fourth box in the top row.
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#It's funnier if I skip straight to the punchline.
Last night, I was locked out of the house and, still being quite drunk, decided my only course of action was to sleep on the shed floor, all 4 foot by 2 foot of it.
smellygit said I thought that there were loads of holes in your house at the moment - none Jez sized?
[added 9th Aug 2005] One, maybe, above the back door. I considered it, but I would have had to stand on a wobbly pile of garden furniture to reach it. Had I managed that, I'd probably have cut myself on the leftover bits of glass as I squeezed through. Assuming I wasn't impaled on anything I'd have certain landed on my head on the way down. I was drunk, but I wasn't that drunk :) [added 9th Aug 2005]
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#[Arabica]XPath builds and runs using GCC 4.0.1
Built and run on Linux this very morning. My Cygwin set up is clearly borked in some fashion.
Off for a work outing to London today. Hope to package and release this evening if I'm back at a reasonable time.
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# The ACCU Conference call for papers has just arrived. I'd really like to speak again (not least because you get your accomodation subbed), but haven't got a clue what to talk about. Bugger.
The ACCU Conference 2006 will take place in Oxford on the 19th-22nd April. We would like to invite you to propose a session or sessions at this leading software development conference. The full call for participation, and further details, are available at www.accu.org/conference.
Sessions are generally 90 minutes long, though we also plan to
run some 45 minute sessions; these may be attractive to less experienced
speakers. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in
sessions covering the following topics:
- C++ (beginners to advanced)
- C#
- Java
- Python
- scripting/dynamic languages: Ruby, Smalltalk, Perl
- XML
- Generative/Functional Programming
- Design and Analysis
- Development Process
- Patterns
- Distributed collaboration
If you would like to propose a session please contact us on
accu2006@accu.org by the 30th September at the latest. Full proposals
are most welcome - these should consist of:
- Title
- Duration (45/90 min)
- Speaker name(s)
- Speaker biography (max 150 words)
- Description (approx 250 words)
- Intended audience
Alternatively, you can just indicate that you would like to present a
session, and if possible we may discuss topics that would best fit your
experience/expertise and the programme.
There might be something in the XML malarkey, perhaps talking about implementing XPath. Kal, I think you should submit something too, maybe about your C# and Sharepoint adventures.
allan@allankelly.net said Why change the habbit of a life-time?
- Not having a clue what to speak about has never stopped you before :)
(Sorry, that was too good an opportunity to pass up) [added 23rd Aug 2005]
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#[Arabica]XPath builds and runs using GCC 3.3.3
Hush my mouth! It wasn't a problem with libstdc++ at all, rather with the parameters being passed to it. VC7 gives 0 div 0 as infinity, while gcc gives NaN. Both seem to me to be valid results, so SubstringFn now accounts for it and the tests pass. Yay.
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#[Arabica] Reproduced my gcc 3.3.3 results on a Linux box. One of the failures was the result of a typo I'd introduced. The others are, I think, related to bugs in the Standard Library, although I haven't chased them quite down yet.
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#[Arabica] Something strange is happening. I updated my Cygwin installation, and now the XPath tests run a bit then hang. It's entirely reproducable, and extremely annoying.
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#[Arabica] There go the makefiles. Realised that I don't need to do VC6 project files. In fact I can't, because the XPath engine uses Boost.Spirit 1.8.0, available as part of Boost 1.32, which VC6 can't build. It might work with 1.6.* I suppose, but I haven't checked it.
Built through with gcc 3.3.3 on Cygwin. Made about half a dozen minor, minor fixes to silence its warnings, mainly adding default cases to switch statements to stop it complaining about unhandled enum values. I'm getting 3 errors and 4 failures out of 388 tests. Haven't looked at it yet, but it looks like something to do with std::string::substr.
Built with gcc 4.0.1 on Cygwin, currently with a number of warnings. Tests fail in a spectacular core-dumping way. Too late to do anything tonight though, it's bed time for hackers.
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#[Arabica]Moving toward a release
Prompted by Terris' comments below, I found sometime this evening to start getting the release ready. All the XPath development code is now in the main cvs module, src. The xpath-dev-sandbox module is now dead and I'll no longer be using.
Right now there are solution and project files for VC++ 2003. I need to whip up VC6 project files and some makefiles, and I'll be good to go.
Something I don't think I've explicitly mentioned before - this initial release of the XPath engine only supports DOM::Node<std::string>. I'll loosen this to support DOM::Node<whatever> in due course.
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# Doesn't matter how many times you see it, but watching a skip being hoisted onto the back of lorry always fascinates.
anonymous said So much so I wonder why there isn't a Sky channel dedicated to it [added 4th Aug 2005]
You tell me John, you have more channels than I do :) [added 4th Aug 2005]
Pete Ashton said Even better is watching a skip being loaded in an enclosed space, like an overcrowded warehouse. The danger! The thrills!
[added 5th Aug 2005]
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# At about 7:30 this morning our road was closed, apparently to allow DANGEROUS REPAIR WORK ON ROOFS AND BUILDING STRUCTURES to be carried out. Apart from a couple of scaffolders, nothing much seems to be happening. Perhaps the chaps manning the barriers (one who doesn't speak english, the other of whom is Dutch or possibly Polish) are being a little over-zealous?
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#Dogger might be cured. Hurrah.
After various ultrasound scans, the Badger's oncologist has declared him tumour free. That doesn't mean he's completely in the clear yet, but it's looking good. He has to be checked again for the next two months, than haul back over to Newmarket for another scan. If he comes up clear again, then he's deemed to be ok. If not, well, then that would be bad.
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# Car has been written off. Arse.
smellygit said It didn't look too bad in the picture - what was wrong with it?
[added 3rd Aug 2005] This and this and this and this and this, plus sundry other dents, bashes and scratches. Three and half thousand against a book value of 2,300. [added 3rd Aug 2005]
JohnH [e] said Just found out about the storm (perils of being an expat). Glad to hear you, Nat and the kids are OK.
[added 3rd Aug 2005] anonymous said Oh well, I spose you get to get a new one though? [added 4th Aug 2005]
No such luck. We get the Glass's Guide value, which is going to be somewhat shy of the cost of replacing it. We also lose our no-claims bonus because it was, in their terms anyway, a fault claim. I said arse and I meant it :) [added 4th Aug 2005]
smellygit said Bet you could get a good bike for that
[added 4th Aug 2005] I have on already :) I think we've pretty much decided to take the money, sit on it and see if we really need to get another car or not. Hopefully we won't. [added 4th Aug 2005]
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#It's not a garden, it's an adventure playground
This picture was taken just outside our backdoor, looking toward the end fence. At the bottom of the picture you can see one of Natalie's pots. The orange coloured thing in the middle is a ridge tile from our roof.
The tree fell from a neighbouring garden, almost exactly filling our garden. It reached right up to our end wall, covering the outhouse, flattening fences, crushing Shabana's brickbuilt shed on one side and putting in Margaret's lavvy window on the other.
We had a lot of spontaneous help from some of Natalie's Moseley in Bloom friends to clear it. As we cut away, more of the garden was revealed and her spirits lifted as each new plant was uncovered. By the end of Sunday we'd gone as far as we could without the aid of proper chainsaws and a genuine willingness to be crushed by large lumps of tree.
A gang of blokes with said tools and attitude arrived this morning and set about it, to Harry's fascinated delight. They're slicing up the last of it now.
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# Scaffolding. Hi-abs. Chainsaws. Chippers.
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# Everybody has their own tornado story. Mohammed, next door, is wheelchairbound: a slate smashed through his double-glazing and he was covered in glass, but was unhurt. The lady next along was asleep in her attic bedroom when the roof and part of the wall were ripped off - she tried to get out, but couldn't get the door open. On the other side, a woman has pieces of slate embedded in the furniture. On again the whole roof has been ripped off, but directly opposite all Nick's pot plants and hanging baskets are untouched and as immaculate as ever. It mindbogglingly unbelievable that so few people were hurt.
smellygit said Glad to hear you aren't homeless, when I saw the reports I wondered if you were affected, but my hazy Brum geography didn't narrow it down enough for me.
[added 2nd Aug 2005] Thank you so much for that. Get lost. [added 14th Aug 2005]
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# Up and down the road there are people who've lost roofs, chimneys, cars and more. Further down from us, toward Sparkbrook, I can see houses with their roofs completely ripped off, some with collapsed walls as well. On Queenswood Road, there are houses are being demolished. The local housing association has thirty families that need rehoming.
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# We've been very lucky, and bin bags taped over windows aside are pretty much back to normal. The roof, while still attached, will need relaying, there's a large tree fallen into the garden, the car's probably written off, and
as Pete said, there are several windows broken. And that's it. We've cleared up, and moved as much of the tree as we can. All around the tree gangs have had chippers going pretty much non-stop, and last night a council crew came through with a JCB and tipper lorry to scoop up the piles of debris in the road. Things look almost back to normal.
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# In the end, the Bean didn't know whether he was more upset by what we might find or the fact the he was losing two days of his holiday.
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