Reflex

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

One of my favorite techy-geeky subjects is about meta type stuff i.e. issues dealing with reflection, AOP, etc.
Reflex was developed as part of PhD thesis. To quote its creator:
“Reflex is an efficient and flexible reflective system for Java that I developed during my PhD thesis (which is about to end). It is evolving [...]

Here we go again

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

These storms are getting to be a real drag. It is really annoying to have to call my family in Florida just to ask if they are swimming in their living rooms. This all reminds that I forgot to mention one very important app used by FPL in their dealings with these storms. FGMS [...]

Smalltalk is my day job

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Yesterday, I commemorated the half way point in my life or possibly the 2/3 rd point , my family runs that spectrum. I feel like I am rushing to a finish line in a race that I should not want to finish. Life is just flying by. It was only yesterday that I was looking [...]

Vmware on my Alienware

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

They say that boys like toys and I am no exception. There are two toys that I still find myself talking and smiling about. Those are my Alienware Area 51 notebook and VmWare a virtual computing environment.

I was first turned on to Alienware notebooks by Dave Anderson of Smalltalk MT. Dave in into “desktop [...]

Big Blue

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

Just yesterday I received an email that from a Smalltalker out at a utility in the midwest. A utility which I never had heard of before using Smalltalk. He told me that after seeing my post in c.l.s regarding FPL and its Smalltalk systems and that he contacted a colleague over there and was told [...]

When trouble means trouble

Monday, September 6th, 2004

Here I go again, this is my second blog entry but this time I am blogging via James’s BottomFeeder which supposedly guarantees safe passage, we shall see.
Hurricane Frances was of special concern to me since I have family in both Miami and Ft. Lauderdale and know first hand from Hurricane Andrew how destructive these things [...]