:: grepninjalog ::

:: Monday, April 14, 2008 ::

For anyone who may still use this old weblog of mine, I just want you to know that it looks like Blogger finally *did* recover my archives and that this weblog does pretty well consolidate Grepninja's musings from March 2000 through early 2004. My current technical weblog is Tobler.SoftwareArchitecture(). I have a few other weblogs on other topics. Be healthy! Be happy! Be creative!

:: John Tobler 4/14/2008 02:33:00 PM [+] ::

Python beginners, try A Byte of Python. This new tutorial is available for free download in several formats (I recommend the color PDF version). Python is fun and free!

:: John Tobler 8/24/2004 04:08:00 PM [+] ::

Red Robin - Jython is an Eclipse plugin that "aims to provide most development facilities expected by a Jython developer."

:: John Tobler 6/10/2004 11:03:00 AM [+] ::

Plone is an Open Source content management system (CMS) built using Zope and Python. Plone can be used as a portal server, a groupware tool, a document publishing system, and other things.

:: John Tobler 6/10/2004 09:18:00 AM [+] ::

XML.com: What's New in WSDL 2.0 [May. 20, 2004]

:: John Tobler 6/09/2004 11:30:00 AM [+] ::

GrepNinjaLog is now reactivated! Blogger.com has implemented many changes and, as of today, I was able to republish my missing archives. It appears that the archive files from 2/28/2001 to 2/13/2003 have been restored and are now available. CSharpener's Weblog is still my main technical weblog but now that Blogger.com has restored the missing files, I will continue to post some information here. I have been able to implement a very convenient search capability on GrepNinjaLog, thanks to a free Atomz Express Search account provided by Atomz.com. You can perform basic search using the [::..Atomz Standard Search..::] box in the top left area of the page. Power users can use the [::..Atomz Advanced Search..::] at the bottom of the page. These tools are useful for finding things in the archives.

:: John Tobler 6/09/2004 08:39:00 AM [+] ::

Please go to CSharpener's Blog, my new technical weblog. This weblog is now closed.

:: John Tobler 3/13/2003 09:54:00 AM [+] ::

Sadly, I am closing GrepNinjaLog as of today. Why? Because the Blogger.com service has become crufty and blecherous. Blogger.com has apparently lost or trashed my archives from 2/28/2001 to the present and I have been unable to contact any human being at Blogger.com who will respond to, much less care about, the blogging tragedy they have caused for me. I have started a new technical weblog, CSharpener's Blog. You are welcome to follow my technical ramblings there!

:: John Tobler 2/13/2003 09:38:00 AM [+] ::

The Mock Objects Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology offesr some useful ideas and tools for your test-first development efforts.

:: John Tobler 1/09/2003 09:40:00 AM [+] ::

Interesting article: Usability and Open Source Software

:: John Tobler 12/23/2002 03:30:00 PM [+] ::

Alias now makes the Maya Personal Learning Edition now available for Maya Complete 5 available for non-commercial use.

:: John Tobler 12/12/2002 10:38:00 AM [+] ::

:: John Tobler 12/06/2002 02:46:00 PM [+] ::

The Cover Pages provides a very useful Core Standards document: Cover Pages: Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL).

:: John Tobler 12/06/2002 01:26:00 PM [+] ::

The CoverPages

:: John Tobler 12/06/2002 12:02:00 PM [+] ::

Cover Pages: XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)

:: John Tobler 12/06/2002 11:57:00 AM [+] ::

Really Slick Screensavers

:: John Tobler 12/04/2002 08:33:00 AM [+] ::

ConTEXT - Programmers editor

:: John Tobler 11/25/2002 01:58:00 PM [+] ::

Xtreme Simplicity

:: John Tobler 11/22/2002 01:23:00 PM [+] ::

Design Patterns

:: John Tobler 11/22/2002 10:52:00 AM [+] ::

The Tcl'ers Wiki

:: John Tobler 11/22/2002 10:25:00 AM [+] ::

Unistellar Industries -- an apparently free space simulator game.

:: John Tobler 11/22/2002 10:07:00 AM [+] ::

elYsiun.com :: Render Your Imagination

:: John Tobler 11/18/2002 04:22:00 PM [+] ::

Distributed Transactions in Visual Basic .NET

:: John Tobler 11/18/2002 02:08:00 PM [+] ::

OpenOffice.org

:: John Tobler 11/18/2002 09:40:00 AM [+] ::

WebBrain.com - The smartest way to see the web!

:: John Tobler 11/12/2002 10:39:00 AM [+] ::

TheBrain Technologies Corporation

:: John Tobler 11/12/2002 10:37:00 AM [+] ::

Radiant Thinking

:: John Tobler 11/12/2002 09:51:00 AM [+] ::

Open Directory - Science: Astronomy: Software: Space Simulation

:: John Tobler 11/11/2002 08:36:00 PM [+] ::

Project1.home -- The beginnings of a game engine for an Open Source space simulator game. They are in early development hut do have some working code.

:: John Tobler 11/11/2002 08:32:00 PM [+] ::

It looks like all of my archive files betweeh February 2001 and present have been lost. This is very disturbing, indeed!

:: John Tobler 11/10/2002 10:59:00 AM [+] ::

101 things you can do in Mozilla -- perhaps a bit over-enthusiastic but good to look over.

:: John Tobler 11/10/2002 10:24:00 AM [+] ::

David Fox, a member of the exobox, Inc., team, is probably the person most responsible for the Magic Lens idea (see Composing Magic Lenses). David previously worked with Ken Perlin on Pad, which became Pad++, then Jazz, and is now turning into Piccolo (see the previous note on this. You can review David's impressive resume. AFAIK, David now works at Lindows.

:: John Tobler 11/08/2002 09:46:00 PM [+] ::

MKS:Software and Web Application Development Solutions -- Unix-like toolkits for Windows. Caution: these are commercial products and are not free. In particular, have a look at the NuTCRACKER service. You may see it, from time to time, when you look at services or processes on some machines you work on because one of your software vendors might be using it.

:: John Tobler 11/08/2002 10:30:00 AM [+] ::

Smalltalk WebRing: -- but WATCH OUT for all the advertisements, etc.

:: John Tobler 11/07/2002 10:16:00 PM [+] ::

GemStone Systems, Real-Time Performance Software

:: John Tobler 11/07/2002 10:13:00 PM [+] ::

PRIVARIA Secure Networking Suite - An Open-Source, Firewall-Friendly Platform for Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Networking

:: John Tobler 11/07/2002 05:25:00 PM [+] ::

Home PC Firewall Guide

:: John Tobler 11/07/2002 05:12:00 PM [+] ::

The Shared Source CLI Beta Refresh -- "ROTOR".

:: John Tobler 11/07/2002 03:25:00 PM [+] ::

XWT -- The XML Windowing Toolkit

:: John Tobler 11/07/2002 03:14:00 PM [+] ::

Anti-Trojan Online-Check

:: John Tobler 11/06/2002 07:59:00 PM [+] ::

Trend Micro - Free online virus Scan

:: John Tobler 11/06/2002 07:58:00 PM [+] ::

EMSL: Spotlight - Collaboratory

:: John Tobler 11/06/2002 07:21:00 PM [+] ::

Pad++ has given way to Jazz which is, in turn, evolving into Piccolo.

:: John Tobler 11/06/2002 04:44:00 PM [+] ::

More on electronic notebooks:

• EMSL Collaboratory
• EMSL: Spotlight - Collaboratory
• Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association (CENSA)
• Electronic Design Notebook
• Research Notebooks
• Electronic Notebooks for Scientific Collaborative Work
• Demonstrating the Electronic Cocktail Napkin
• The Electronic Cocktail Napkin Project
• EMSL has an electronic notebook
• Electronic Notebooks -- Richard Zippel (Cornell)
• OSELN: An Open Source Electronic Lab Notebook:
  • Amphora Research Systems Release Announcement
  • The Opensourceeln.org Site
  • CENSML.org -- "CENSML.org is the home of CENSML (Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Markup Language), an XML-based format for representing the information stored in Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs). CENSML can be used to import/export data between ELNs, as a long term data storage format, or as an integration mechanism."

:: John Tobler 11/06/2002 04:08:00 PM [+] ::

Watch What I Do: Table of Contents

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 10:00:00 PM [+] ::

Lambda the Ultimate Research Papers -- programming languages

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 09:57:00 PM [+] ::

The Icon Implementation Book

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 09:54:00 PM [+] ::

Lambda the Ultimate -- "The Programming Languages Weblog ".

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 09:27:00 PM [+] ::

Harvest: A Distributed Search System

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 07:32:00 PM [+] ::

Screenshots of Applications created with Squeak -- including exobox.

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 06:35:00 PM [+] ::

Exobox -- overview

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 06:35:00 PM [+] ::

Nate Robins - OpenGL - GLUT for Win32

:: John Tobler 11/04/2002 03:49:00 PM [+] ::

Pocket Smalltalk

:: John Tobler 11/01/2002 12:31:00 PM [+] ::

www.ardiri.com -- PilRC v2.9

:: John Tobler 11/01/2002 12:09:00 PM [+] ::

Let's not forget: OSDN.com: The Open Source Development Network!

:: John Tobler 11/01/2002 12:04:00 AM [+] ::

comp.lang.functional Frequently Asked Questions (monthly posting)

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:55:00 PM [+] ::

Internet FAQ Archives

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:53:00 PM [+] ::

Cryptography FAQ Index

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:53:00 PM [+] ::

Usenet FAQs By Category

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:53:00 PM [+] ::

Neal Stephenson at The Well

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:49:00 PM [+] ::

Counterpane Labs: Crypto-Links

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:45:00 PM [+] ::

Counterpane Labs: Index of Crypto Papers Available Online

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:45:00 PM [+] ::

Counterpane Labs: Solitaire

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:41:00 PM [+] ::

Cyphernomicon

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:38:00 PM [+] ::

Cryptonomicon cypher-FAQ

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:35:00 PM [+] ::

Handbook of Applied Cryptography -- CRC Press has generously made all chapters available for free download! Pate Williams has also publicised many if not most of his algorithms. Bravo!

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:32:00 PM [+] ::

Cryptonomicon.Net

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 11:15:00 PM [+] ::

OpenGL Tutorials & Courses

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 10:53:00 PM [+] ::

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 10:01:00 PM [+] ::

Ken Perlin's homepage

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 10:01:00 PM [+] ::

MAXcode.com - Your PERSONAL Resource - Game Programming in C @MAXcode.com - PART ONE

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 09:03:00 PM [+] ::

MAXcode.com - Your Personal Resource !

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 09:02:00 PM [+] ::

angryCoder - Speak your mind...

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 08:17:00 PM [+] ::

devCity.NET - article - Demystifying Microsoft Intermediate Language. Part 3 - Debugging

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 08:12:00 PM [+] ::

devCity.NET - article - Demystifying Microsoft Intermediate Language. Part 2 - A Short Description of .NET Application

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 08:12:00 PM [+] ::

devCity.NET - article - Demystifying Microsoft Intermediate Language. Part 1 - Introduction

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 08:11:00 PM [+] ::

.NET CLR Profiling Services: Track Your Managed Components to Boost Application Performance -- MSDN Magazine, November 2001

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:53:00 PM [+] ::

CLR Debugging: Improve Your Understanding of .NET Internals by Building a Debugger for Managed Code

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:51:00 PM [+] ::

O'Reilly Network: System.Drawing with C# [May. 20, 2002]

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:46:00 PM [+] ::

ONDotnet.com -- O'Reilly jumps into the .NET fray.

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:44:00 PM [+] ::

.netWire Home - The Source For Microsoft .NET News

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:43:00 PM [+] ::

Planet Source Code -- a public source code database.

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:41:00 PM [+] ::

Intrafoundation Software - Game Development Links

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:32:00 PM [+] ::

.NET 247 : Guide - Windows Forms:Graphics & GDI

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:26:00 PM [+] ::

Rent A Coder:How Software Gets Done

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 07:02:00 PM [+] ::

Squeak GUI Building Tools

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 01:16:00 PM [+] ::

Bookpool

:: John Tobler 10/31/2002 12:02:00 PM [+] ::

SMIX - Smalltalk Interchnage Format in XML

:: John Tobler 10/28/2002 09:35:00 PM [+] ::

XML.Smalltalk.org Main Page

:: John Tobler 10/28/2002 09:34:00 PM [+] ::

Successful Lisp - Contents -- an online Lisp tutorial book.

:: John Tobler 10/27/2002 12:56:00 AM [+] ::

Google Search: CLisp documentation string group:comp.lang.lisp.*

:: John Tobler 10/27/2002 12:40:00 AM [+] ::

Platform SDK Update

:: John Tobler 10/26/2002 07:39:00 PM [+] ::

Windows IT Library

:: John Tobler 10/26/2002 07:30:00 PM [+] ::

Snort.org -- Snort is billed as "The Open Source Network Intrusion Detection System." Cost = free. Gotta' love the Pig!

:: John Tobler 10/26/2002 07:04:00 PM [+] ::

richmac.org: Windows Installer - reading installer logs

:: John Tobler 10/26/2002 06:53:00 PM [+] ::

TopCoder Home

:: John Tobler 10/26/2002 12:12:00 AM [+] ::

Introduction to NUnit (for C#) -- C# Tutorial - CSharpFriends.com

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 11:59:00 PM [+] ::

Simple Singleton Pattern in C# -- C# Tutorial - CSharpFriends.com

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 11:57:00 PM [+] ::

GDI+ Drawing out side the lines -- C# Tutorial - CSharpFriends.com

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 11:50:00 PM [+] ::

CSharpFriends.com

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 11:47:00 PM [+] ::

C# Syntax Reference Card -- a Must Have from CSharpFriends.com.

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 11:30:00 PM [+] ::

C# Corner: C# and .NET Developer's Network Tutorial: GDI Tutorial for Beginners

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 10:51:00 PM [+] ::

C# Corner: C# and .NET Developer's Network Working with GDI Pens and Fonts

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 10:47:00 PM [+] ::

C# Corner: C# and .NET Developer's Network BattleShips Game

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 10:44:00 PM [+] ::

C# Corner: Creating Graphics with XML

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 10:43:00 PM [+] ::

C# Corner: Space Breakout

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 10:41:00 PM [+] ::

C# Corner: C# and .NET Developer's Network -- Graphics -- GDI+

:: John Tobler 10/25/2002 10:37:00 PM [+] ::

Spyonit.com (on hiatus)

:: John Tobler 10/24/2002 11:25:00 AM [+] ::

The Haskell School of Expression

:: John Tobler 10/23/2002 01:35:00 PM [+] ::

Cellular Automata - Digital Worlds Tutorial

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 09:16:00 PM [+] ::

Isle Ex: Transmusic: Cellular Automaton Music

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 09:09:00 PM [+] ::

Generate Cellular Automaton

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 09:07:00 PM [+] ::

Cellular Automata and the Edge of Chaos

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 08:38:00 PM [+] ::

Evolution project page

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 08:22:00 PM [+] ::

The Temple of Alife

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 08:18:00 PM [+] ::

International Society for Artificial Life

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 08:06:00 PM [+] ::

StarLogo on the Web

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 07:58:00 PM [+] ::

The Epistemology and Learning Group

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 07:52:00 PM [+] ::

MIT Media Lab - Lifelong Kindergarten Group

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 07:52:00 PM [+] ::

Exploring Emergence

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 07:39:00 PM [+] ::

Cellular automata

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 07:38:00 PM [+] ::

Discrete Dynamics Lab

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 05:15:00 PM [+] ::

3D Game of Life

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 04:06:00 PM [+] ::

Artificial Life by Jpr : Cellular automata, genetic algorithms, biomorphs...

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 04:03:00 PM [+] ::

Cellab: Getting Started

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 03:45:00 PM [+] ::

cage: a "fairly generic and complete cellular automaton simulation engine in Python."

1D & 2D automata, rules, agents.

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 01:04:00 PM [+] ::

Cafun

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 11:51:00 AM [+] ::

cabrowser

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 11:45:00 AM [+] ::

Open Directory - Science: Math: Chaos and Fractals

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 11:24:00 AM [+] ::

Open Directory - Computers: Artificial Life: Cellular Automata

:: John Tobler 10/21/2002 11:23:00 AM [+] ::