Ever had to work with regular expressions and cursed the one who invented this crazy stuff? Well, I had to, and if I had knowledge of The RegEx-Coach at that time, it wouldn’t have been such a pain in the a**.
With this tool you can try and evaluate every possible regular expression with every string and follow the evaluation in real time.
Dear Love, we are now together for 18 months. I want to tell you that this time has been the best time for my life so far and that I want to extend this period of time as long as I can think.
I love you, Kosi
He claims that this is caused by general industry weakness and the effort to expand our markets to EMEA and ASPAC blah blah…
Take gods message to mankind, bastard. :/
Had you ever have a bad feeling about genetically modified food and wanted to know more? Well, there is not that much research data available, because research is mostly suppressed by Biotech companies.
Anyway, I found this half-official publication.
Want to know what the US really wants to do in our world? What really happened in Afghanistan and Iraq? At John Pilgers page the work of this Australian journalist and military correspondent reveals some dark corners in the American leadership.
Yesterday we got mail concerning our "mail"-computers which are still absent: They won’t arrive. Instead it has been decided that the access to the VPN will be established with VPN-clients on our regular machines. Hasn’t it been said that such connections from non-migrated computers are not allowed? Anyway, clever developers have found out the possibility of connecting via VPN-client quite a while ago…
Legally at last 🙂
Hm, some work is coming up the road. We have to translate all our inline documented errors from German to English. Lots of work ‘coz many many error messages 😉 Bad news were that Freecraft has been shut down by Blizzard. Everything away, no website anymore, no SourceForge webpage, nothing. Perhaps there is much going on on interactive channels like IRC and so on, but I’m not that involved there. The only rumor I found is that a Freecraft-based project called ‘Project Inferno’ has been started. No website yet, but I’m curious if this can continue the path of Freecraft…
Update: The ‘Project Inferno’ webpage is at http://www.shadowconflict.com/projectinferno/
Last week some of my co-workers were sent to Romania to do some tests with Ciscos telephony solution and our product. Cisco got everything they needed in advance, papers, required configurations etc. but when the developer-teams met, Ciscos people had not the slightest clue, what to do and how. Seems the world-connecting company has large problems with its internal communications and knowledge-exchange. I don’t want to blame the people they sent there, but there was something terribly wrong in the whole process. This is stuff which must not happen in such a company…
Well, last week didn’t bring many news: Tuesday I had a talk with my "performance manager" (why do all American companies have such silly titles?) about the goals I’ve reached in the last year personally and in my job and made up new goals for the future. For the past I think I’ve met the expectations but my PM thinks I’ve exceeded them. 🙂 (Not too hard, if I’m the last remaining real developer in my team) For the future I’ve told him that I’d like it if I could get in touch with developers from our partner-companies and work on cross-company-projects.
Anyone out there who likes to work on a carrier-grade telephone-solution with me?
Anyway, the rest of the week was not that interesting, I’ve been still trying to optimize our system for SMP environment (AIX, Solaris) in a cross-platform manner. Still too much slowdown on massive parallel access if same heap is used for all threads (possibly false sharing?). Also began organizing the next iteration meeting which was initially set on Thursday but moved to next Monday…
Created a new blog to throw in some of the ideas which cross my mind every day, something like an Idea fountain.