tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55827832011-08-01T18:28:56.352-07:00Nifty Keen StuffHenry Minsky's Notes About Nifty Keen StuffHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-51058212193363816072011-06-14T07:37:00.000-07:002011-06-14T07:51:16.097-07:00I have been trying to learn how, in the various JSON libraries for Scala, how to modify valuesI've looked at jerkson, a wrapper around the Java Jackson JSON parser, and the lift-json package.In both cases, you get immutable structures returned. In order to update a JSON value, there's some juggling involved.If I have a JSON which contains a Map, and and entry from a key to a ListmyJSON = """{"a":Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-74227720821270096682011-01-28T14:55:00.000-08:002011-01-28T15:22:48.711-08:00We've been developing a video/audio player component for OpenLaszlo which works across HTML5 and Flash runtimes. We picked the jPlayer project to use as a base for this component, to leverage on their cross-platform support. jPlayer can be configured to prefer to instantiate a native HTML5 media element, and fall back to a Flash embedded object.Safari's HTML5 media API on iOS restricts the andHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-66251402659521303072010-09-13T07:39:00.000-07:002010-09-13T07:55:26.943-07:00How To Undelete Text Messages from an iPhoneI wanted to recover some deleted text messages from my iPhone. It turns out this ismarginally possible in some cases. The text messaging system in the iPhone uses the SQLitedatabase library, and keeps text messages in a SQL table. When you delete rows, the storagein the database file will often retain at least some of the deleted message, though it willHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-22681359461750394182010-08-21T06:27:00.000-07:002010-08-21T06:36:25.089-07:00The anti-aliasing of device fonts in the Flash player seems to have changed, and not for the better. Some of our OpenLaszlo developers are complaining that when they port their apps to Flash 10, the rendering of device fonts does not look as good as it did in Flash 8.Indeed when we look at how the same text renders, in a SWF8 and SWF10 app, in the same Flash player, they are rendered Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-32391409596208800322009-05-08T04:24:00.000-07:002009-05-08T06:26:48.540-07:00I went to back up my Mac using Time Machine for the first time in a year, and it keeps failing. The Time Machine control panel gives no info whatsoever on what is failing, just said it got an error. I guess they figure that the users are too dumb to do anything about it, so they don't bother even indicating where to find more information. I looked took a wild guess and looked in in /var/log/Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1149825153381065592006-06-08T20:52:00.000-07:002006-06-08T20:52:33.386-07:00Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1149825118019040292006-06-08T20:51:00.000-07:002006-06-08T20:51:58.030-07:00Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1130438546373529662005-10-27T11:42:00.000-07:002005-10-27T12:05:51.716-07:00Better Simplex RepeatersI was reading about "simplex repeaters" which record a chunk of speech and then repeat it on the same frequency. It occurred to me that if people used radios that could handle digital data a little bit better, you could build a much more useful "realtime" simplex repeater.The idea would be that as you speak, your radio collects up the audio for about, say, 300 millisecondsHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734179357438162005-03-01T19:29:00.002-08:002005-03-01T19:29:39.356-08:00Eng. meeting Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734164822999562005-03-01T19:29:00.001-08:002005-03-01T19:29:24.823-08:00Adjourn to the conference room Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734150625409002005-03-01T19:29:00.000-08:002005-03-01T19:29:10.626-08:00The corporate cafeteria Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734135725713022005-03-01T19:28:00.004-08:002005-03-01T19:28:55.726-08:00Working Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734124612776712005-03-01T19:28:00.003-08:002005-03-01T19:28:44.613-08:00The Boston office (minus jrs) Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734111849911812005-03-01T19:28:00.002-08:002005-03-01T19:28:31.850-08:00Henry's desk Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734102213919122005-03-01T19:28:00.001-08:002005-03-01T19:28:22.213-08:00Our servers Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734084937525642005-03-01T19:28:00.000-08:002005-03-01T19:28:04.936-08:00Bagels Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734066964972272005-03-01T19:27:00.001-08:002005-03-01T19:27:46.963-08:00Front desk Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109734040034742272005-03-01T19:27:00.000-08:002005-03-01T19:27:20.033-08:00The Boston office Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1109733553546995002005-03-01T19:19:00.000-08:002005-03-01T19:19:13.546-08:00Commonwealth Ave, Boston University Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1066352656724322832003-10-16T18:41:00.000-07:002005-03-01T19:35:31.756-08:00The cultural divide and the Internet's future |CNET.comBelow are comments I have on an interview with the CEO of Verislime. The greater issue here is that of people poisoning standards for their own short term gain. This guy is either a cynical liar or incompetent to be in charge of the root DNS for .com. I am almost certain that it is the former. After a couple of weeks on the hot seat, VeriSignHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1058330824559104292003-07-15T21:47:00.000-07:002003-07-15T21:47:04.616-07:00Newport | Photonics | Fiber Optics and Accessories | Tutorial |
Get some cool stuff here.Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1058306981612736692003-07-15T15:09:00.000-07:002003-07-15T15:09:41.673-07:00Google Toolbar
The cool new Google Toolbar allows you to click a single button to make a blog entry with the current URL of the page you are viewing.Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16208839315660807152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582783.post-1058306776177208392003-07-15T15:06:00.000-07:002003-07-15T15:07:58.690-07:00SCIFI.COM | MST3000: The Brains
Mike Nelson is the brains behind Mystery Science Theater 3000
I highly recommend his books "Mike Nelson's MegaCheese", a highly funny collection of reviews of some of the cheesiest movies ever made,
and "Mind Over Matters", a collection of humorous essays.
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