Purposive without Foresight

Among many plugins of the desktop manager Compiz Fusion, “Tile” is not the flashiest but one of the most useful plugins. I’m one of the programmers who need to look up API documentations/Wikis or cookbook/example repositories from time to time. I have a 22′ wide screen, fire Tile’s “Vertical Tile” command, API documentation and [...]

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Today I arrived at this page when I was checking out information about the MySql Falcon engine:
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon
Below is the part I found amusing:

Falcon is NOT
…
Jim (Starkey) ’s been at this for a long time, there have been some changes since he wrote his first database at DEC:

Uni-processors to multi-core
CPU performance from 1.7 to 42000 MPS
Address [...]

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Download the pdf keymap: eclipse-ganymede-keymap.pdf
In office I work with IDEA and Microsoft Visual Studio C++ on Windows. At home I use Eclipse on Debian Lenny/Sid (Desktops managed by Compiz-fusion B-) ). These programs have very different key bindings, I want cheatsheets for quick look-ups. IDEA ships with a pdf keymap. There are keymaps for Visual [...]

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Most of the time, I work with various APIs. The quality of the API documentation significantly influence my efficiency. My favourite is the cookbook-ish API doc always with some quintessential examples showing how to use the API calls to accomplish a certain task. A cookbook-ish User-Howto plus API reference listing the UMLs of the API [...]

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The puzzle
The participation rules
First of all, many thanks to the participants, all the people who are interested and I apologize for the delay of result delivery. A lot of things has happened in my life during last several months. My daily job has very little to do with Java or Rete-based rule engines now, and [...]

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My graduate thesis EatSmart: A Personal Nutrition Management System Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Methodology can be downloaded here. Keyword: combinatorial optimization, dynamic string-matching, fuzzy string-matching, knowledge based systems, Rete-based rule engine, Java Enterprise Edition. Copyright Ning Zhao. Any constructive critics and/or comments are most welcome. Please write to ellen_zhao@web.de. Thanks!
Days ago I passed the theoretical exam [...]

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Last week Dirk attended the 15th ACM Multimedia Conference in Augsburg. I went with him and was in some sessions too. The complete program can be found here.
I’m going to blog what I’ve seen and experienced in the open programs. This blog entry might be updated in the future. Some pictures I took [...]

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The original puzzle
Participation Rules
The rule in the first sentence of the old man is obvious. The mathematician cannot decide the solution after he was told the second condition. This indicates that there are more than one triple of numbers whose products are 36 and sums are the same. The third condition tells that the [...]

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Drools Puzzles is a periodic puzzle-solving contest. Anybody can compete in a round except the puzzle poster himself. For now a problem-solving cycle is about 2 weeks. Puzzles are posted by the winner of last round. A participator can post her solution to
mailto:droolspuzzle@gmail.com
All solutions are evaluated after the deadline of a round, on a [...]

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I have encountered questions like how to use rules in a typical JEE application in Seam forum. And there are some other questions on general application design too. I have been using Seam and Drools together and figured out a way which ties the business logic to entities in an ultimately flexible manner and this [...]

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