Monthly Archives: January 2007

Overheard at Brixx

Posted on January 25, 2007 by xan

Overheard from the table behind me at Brixx (great pizza, btw): “Tomorrow I’ll take you to Raleigh, because that’s our biiiiig city. So what’s France like?”

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NC Science Blogging Conference

Posted on January 23, 2007 by xan

Bonnie and I attended the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference last week-end, and this photo shows WillR and me at the pre-conference dinner. I was really impressed with the variety of attendees and the work everyone was doing. Many of … Continue reading →

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Java 7 Wish List Item: Static Analysis Optimizations

Posted on January 8, 2007 by xan

Shortly after Java 6 came out last year, there were a number of Java 7 wish lists floating around (example). Most wishes are for syntax improvements. I don’t use Java as much as I used to, and I only have … Continue reading →

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First Place at Project Euler

Posted on January 1, 2007 by xan

Project Euler hosts a growing collection of math programming problems that I started participating in earlier this year while it was on the mathschallenge.net web site. Typically, you have to write a program to solve a math problem and then … Continue reading →

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