Let's begin with an apology to the Mayan's. There's not a whit of verified historical evidence that the ancient Mayans predicted the end of the world or that they were any more upset about cycles in their calendars than we are in ours. Modern Mayans repeatedly pointed this out but arguing with new age morons, … Continue reading Apocalypse Never or I Told You So Day
King Hobbit Kong
The pre-Hobbit hum was not harmonious. It started with the interminable legal battle over who would direct the Hobbit and how to split any spoils. After Peter Jackson's cinematic Lord of the Rings triumph people assumed he would be The Hobbit guy but an envious and embittered clique of Tolkien's heirs felt the weren't getting … Continue reading King Hobbit Kong
More about JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
I have resolved my DHTMLX standard edition row data extraction problem. The standard edition does not serialize grids or track user cell changes. You have to pay for such luxuries. Because I'm a foul software Grinch and this is just an exploratory hack I had to roll my own. I am posting the relevant JavaScript … Continue reading More about JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
Grids are the most important GUI user object. It's hard to think of a user-friendly data munching application that doesn't have a grid beating at its heart. Consequently, any serious GUI interface contender must support grids. My previous post showed how to use MathJax with JHS. MathJax is an impressive and important JavaScript library; it … Continue reading JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
JHS meets MathJax
With the release of J 7.01 Jsoftware "deprecated" COM. J 6.02 can run as a COM automation server but J 7.01 cannot.3 Throwing COM under the bus is hardly radical. Microsoft, COM's creator, has been holding COM's head underwater for years. Many .Net programmers cringe when they hear the word "COM" and the greater nonwindows1 … Continue reading JHS meets MathJax
Git me a Hub’bery
Sometime ago I crossed my machine synchronization threshold. I routinely work on four operating systems, three laptops, a few servers, a bunch of phones and so on. I synchronized the directories I cared about while forming deep and rewarding relationships with file sharing services like Dropbox. Dropbox is great but its success has attracted the … Continue reading Git me a Hub’bery
Election Reflections
About the only surprise coming out of the recent US election was Puerto Rico's foolish vote to seek statehood. People, you don't board the Titanic after it has hit the iceberg. In time Puerto Ricans will learn what Quebec separatists have already painfully absorbed. If fence-sitting is your main tactic for extorting favors from larger … Continue reading Election Reflections
Semi-Literate JOD
Click to view jodliterate.pdf Despite seven decades of programming experience documenting software remains a challenge. There are many reasons for this sorry state of affairs with the most important being that programmers simply do not agree on the need for documentation. As pathetic as this sounds it's not without merit. It all depends on what … Continue reading Semi-Literate JOD
Pandoc based J Syntax Highlighting
John MacFarlane's excellent command line utility Pandoc is a Haskell program that converts to and from various text markup languages. Pandoc's help option lists its supported input and output formats. The following examples are Linux bash shell commands. Windows shell commands are identical. $ pandoc --help pandoc [OPTIONS] [FILES] Input formats: native, json, markdown, markdown+lhs, … Continue reading Pandoc based J Syntax Highlighting
Faith a guilty pleasure
Faith Korean TV It’s a quiet Labor Day weekend in the drivel dome1 and your fearless reporter is a tad bored. I could help with the housework or get out and exercise but I have better things to do. Last night while trolling the intertubes for something to watch on Hulu I came across a … Continue reading Faith a guilty pleasure
