Boomerang a bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc, textual data.

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/

Boomerang is a programming language for writing lenses—well-behaved bidirectional transformations—that operate on ad-hoc, textual data formats. Every lens program, when read from left to right, describes a function that maps an input to an output; when read from right to left, the very same program describes a "backwards" function that maps a modified output, together with the original input, back to a modified input.

Lenses have been used to solve problems across a wide range of areas in computing including: in data converters and synchronizers, in parsers and pretty printers, in picklers and unpicklers, in structure editors, in constraint maintainers for user interfaces, in software model transformations, in schema evolution, in tools for managing system configuration files, and in databases where they provide updatable views.

ToRead:
http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Voice-Making-Singer/dp/0670033510

The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer (Hardcover)

TechTip.Weblogic: class ...jaxws... "could not be found"

It's one of those issues when seemingly simple code gets disproportionally hard to run. Try to get something like

@WebService(serviceName="helloworldservice")

public class HelloWorldImpl {
public String sayHelloWorld(String message) {
return "Here is the message: '" + message + "'"; }
}

deployed in wls10 and get wierd error message...

then look for the problme on the Google and fund a bunch of frustrated comrades that also are buffled by it, leaving a trail of un-answered threads until someone gets it solved.

duh!

the laurels this time goes to Mr. cretz

http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=190547

the answer is:
@SOAPBinding(parameterStyle=ParameterStyle.BARE) or wrapping element.

TechTip.Weblogic: Testing Web Services with the Test Client

Testing Web Services with the Test Client

http://edocs.bea.com/wlw/docs101/guide/webservices/conTestingWebServices.html

ToRead:
http://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Software-Development-Best-Practices/dp/0735623198
Dynamics of Software Development (Best Practices) (Paperback)by Jim McCarthy (Author)

accompanied by:
http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3108351

IYV: Chateauneuf du Baps, anyone?

Improve Your Vocabulary Department

Metro, Wed, Feb 6, 2008, p8

A new bra supports breasts and booze by turning women from a size A to a double D... and acting as a secret drinking flask.

The crafty lingerie, called the Wine Rack, has a special boob-enhancing polyutrethane bladder that can be filled with alcohol.

...
A spokeswoman for online retailer Firebox said: "Secretly guzzling from your gazongas means no more queuing up and forking out for overpriced drinks at festivals and pubs."

Top 20 geek novels -- the results!

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/top_20_geek_novels_the_results.html

November 9, 2005 6:14 AM

So far, 132 people have voted for the best geek novels written in English since 1932, in spite of Survey Monkey's rubric saying free polls were limited to 100 responses. The top 20 is therefore as follows, with the numbers in brackets showing the number of votes.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainbow-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140188592

In ToRead list.