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Entries from September 2006

Google == Power == Savings

September 28th, 2006 · No Comments

At the Intel Developer’s Forum 2 guys from Google presented a paper on how to save energy in PCs. A little snippet:
The Google white paper argues that the opportunity for power savings is immense - deploying new power supplies in 100 million desktop PCs running eight hours a day, it says, would make it […]

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Tags: Computing

Rails for Java

September 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Grails is a Rails-like framework for Groovy, which runs atop Java.
It uses Ant to take care of code generation. I haven’t played with it yet, just read through some of the tutorials. It seems pretty interesting. Maybe I will re-implement the Radar in Grails.

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Tags: Computing · Java · Software

Teach TDD Course

September 20th, 2006 · No Comments

I will be in Cambridge, MA 9/20/2006 - 9/22/2006 to teach a course on Test Driven Development.
I hop on a plane out of Detroit around 17:00 and arrive in Cambridge around 20:00. The course will be taught Thursday and Friday, after which I fly back home

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Tags: TDD · Event · Software

Fuel Cell technology on the go…

September 18th, 2006 · No Comments

UltraCell is a company attempting to take fuel cell technology to the common consumer. They are boasting a fuel cell battery for laptop computing that will give you 14 hours of uninterrupted power.

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Tags: Computing

Classical YouTube?

September 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Though I have seen some funny and cool things on YouTube, I haven’t ever seen anything as good as this. Go Cambry!

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Tags: Classical Music