stlplaceLast Updated on October 19, 2011 by omaha
Saw it at dealsea. This is a good deal, if one does not plan to travel Southwest using the points soon.
They offer wide variety of giftcards (not limited to Amazon). I got some Wal-mart gift cards instead, per my wife’s suggestion 🙂
(image credit: onlinegiftcardsblog.com)
Last Updated on October 11, 2011 by stlplace
The following was written more than a year ago…
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Got opportunity to work on those two technologies recently due to job change. Had some gotchas as I transform from C++, CAD programming to this new program paradigm.
Data problem vs. coding error
In CAD world, sometimes there is problem with the data (CAD file) itself. But most of the time I focus my effort debugging the coding error in my own code, not trying to debugging the data itself. In Oracle/Database world, I found it more often that the data itself could complicate problem. Because the relational database has relationship between table, sometimes we can not add/delete/update table at will due to dependencies (data integrity). This also bring about the second topic I want to discuss.
C++ vs. Java
Java is not as flexible as C++. For instance, how to pass data back from a function, so far I found one way: using the return data. In C++, I used the pointer and reference quite a bit. The wiring of inheritance and interface (implementation) could also got a bit complicated: basically one needs to draw the relationships on a paper to better understand all those.
Eclipse vs. Visual Studio
Eclipse (the free Java IDE) is quite powerful, actually. It’s also highly configurable, with so many plug-ins, e.g., this subclipse integrates Eclipse with Subversion. I remember I could not do such things inside Visual Studio (for Perforce).
Last Updated on October 7, 2011 by stlplace
Stanford commencement speech (2005)
Macintosh 1984 commercial
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1983 Apple event
My other post on Steve Jobs.