"Java in a Nutshell" weighs in at 1264 pages. Matt Croyden, sez:

[Y]our programming language just might be complicated when you have trouble telling the difference between its Nutshell book and a telephone book.

[via James Robertson]

This is somewhat unfair, as the bulk of "JiaN" is a library …

According to "How UML Is Used," an article in the May 2006 issue of CACM, the UML diagrams that most commonly "provide new info" above-and-beyond use-case narratives are:

1. Class diagrams
2. Statechart diagrams
3. Sequence diagrams

Interestingly, "usage rates are not well explained by how much new information is provided." Statecharts, the …

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According to an article in the May 2006 CACM?quoting Peter Drucker, "no more than one in 100 patents earn enough to pay back its development costs and patent fees, and no more than one in 500 recover all its expenses."

With all my AI posts lately, I'm sorry I hadn't realized that the May 2006 issue of the CACM had a theme on the language-action perspective, a critique by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores that dates from 1986 whose essential point the CACM summarizes neatly:

[S]killful action always occurs …

I tried to add one of those "action bars" under my posts -- you know "email it! | digg it! | del.icio.us it!" but couldn't get the dasBlog template to work. The \<%permalink%> macro expands, not to a URI, but to HTML.

Update:

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Exploring Artificial Intelligence is an exciting prospect for non-professional programming (it's a quite rare part of professional programming). Rather than criticize others for being On Intelligence) Architecture on Tic-Tac-Toe

Naturally Speaking 8 ), the underlying processing is still realtime (and, last time I checked, single threaded). This is foolish! I would …

Apparently the North Koreans aimed their Taepodong towards Hawaii . I'll bet anything that our congressmen will demand an anti-missile base now. Sigh.

So I decided to register a piece of shareware, but when I went to the publisher's site, their domain had expired. Well, thinks I, I reckon that's a situation for which "cracking" the protection is reasonable. So I open the assembly in Reflector and...

So this is what I want …

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