tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168120822024-02-28T07:01:19.149-08:00Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1150064077179921982006-06-11T14:46:00.000-07:002006-06-11T15:16:33.910-07:00<table><br /><tr><td><br /><a href="http://static.flickr.com/69/165176358_d321cc6542_o.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/69/165176358_d321cc6542_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></td></tr></table><br />Due to the Memorial Holiday, I gave notice 3 weeks in advance, taking the week after JavaOne off for a vacation on "The Big Island" of Hawaii. The photo is a night time image of glowing lava I took with my Nikon D-50. There were three glowing spots and I was using a 300 MM zoom lens without a tripod which resulted in the squiggles. <br /><br />The first week at Apple has been insanely great!Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1146618747547369412006-05-02T18:06:00.000-07:002006-05-02T18:14:55.176-07:00I thought I'd try an experiment to see how useful I could make a <a href="http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/techart/2/ajax_buy_now.html">podcast</a> with screenshots. It turned out to be a reasonably good format for a demo, though you have to plan for a somewhat limited display area. I used Garage Band to build the mpeg 4 file. It even runs on my iPod Nano, but of course you generally can't see much on the Nano's tiny screen.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1141598148440807892006-03-05T14:12:00.000-08:002006-03-05T14:41:15.766-08:00<a href="http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/mission/images/rover1_detail_500.jpg"><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/mission/images/rover1_detail_500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Highly recommended. <a href="http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/rovingmars/">Roving Mars</a> does a good job capturing the project's engineering challenges.<br /><br />Also, take a look at the <a href="http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/index.html">NASA site</a>. The panoramic pictures in the press releases section are amazing.<br /><br />It looked like everyone in the JPL mission control center had Sun desktop workstations. Sun is fairly dominant in the "scientific computing" space. It's all about rock solid Fortran libraries for numeric computation.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1138206864783594042006-01-25T08:27:00.000-08:002006-01-25T08:40:07.266-08:00<a href="http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/index.jsp">And it's free</a><br /><br />Also, check out the <a href="http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/techart/index.html">Ajax articles</a> I wrote with Beth Stearns.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1137869709908466082006-01-21T10:50:00.000-08:002006-01-21T10:55:09.916-08:00Insanely Great!<br /><br />Here's the <a href="http://macworld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/mw/index.html">video</a><br /><br />My iMac with the Intel Duo is due to arrive at the end of the month.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1136397420896913982006-01-04T09:54:00.000-08:002006-01-04T09:58:06.656-08:00Of course, "Coffee" likes Java tools...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1901684,00.asp">Creator Best of 2005</a>...a few paragraphs down you will find Peter's thoughts.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1136339173409603242006-01-03T17:39:00.000-08:002006-01-25T08:38:56.216-08:00Update (1/25), <br />The <a href="http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/techart/index.html">Ajax articles</a> I wrote with Beth Stearns are now online as part of our release of a major update.<br /><br /><br />Here is a recent article published on the portal for our product.<br /><br />The article details the use of a 3rd party component within the Creator IDE.<br /><br />This article served to address functional limitations in the component sets provided with early versions of Creator. The work also helped create synergy between two companies and their respective customers.<br /><br />The leader of our content team mentioned that weblog analysis showed this was one of the top articles for pulling new traffic into our site. She's been asking for an encore and now that our release is headed out the door I will aim to please.<br /><br /><a href="http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/techart/jscape.html">Using JScape's WebGalileo Tree Component</a>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1135490195546802032005-12-24T21:55:00.000-08:002005-12-29T00:28:24.973-08:00As part of my vacation "fun" I've setup feedburner.com and the associated new "standard" feed icon on my blog template. Enjoy!Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1134982552624037682005-12-19T00:55:00.000-08:002005-12-19T01:06:45.176-08:00To use flickr for my profile photo I simply "blogged" the photo from flickr and then grabbed the static html link flickr generated in my blog posting. This is easily done using the blogger "Edit Html" tab. I found it to be:<br /><p><br />http://static.flickr.com/40/75125395_8e594a0012_m.jpg</p><br />Which I then copy/pasted into my profile photo url entry field.<br /><p><br />Blogger seems to shink the images quite a bit, which is reasonable.<br />I really need to go with a headshot, so I'll try my hand at some cropping<br />with Picasa shortly.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1134978566880599442005-12-18T22:57:00.000-08:002005-12-29T00:25:14.776-08:00<span><br />Patents issued to me are listed below. At IBM I achieved the 5th level inventors achievement award. Each sequential level includes a significant monetary award and a framed certificate.<br /></span><br /><p><br /><a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5392389.pdf">Graphical method for creating an object </a><br /><b> 5,392,389 - 22 citations currently</b><br /></p><p><br /><a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5422993.pdf">Method and system for performing direct manipulation operations in a computer system</a><br /><b> 5,422,993 - 38 citations!</b><br /></p><p><br /><a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5550969.pdf">Graphical method of indicating the position of and performing an operation on a plurality of selected objects in a computer system</a><br /><b>5,550,969 - with co-inventor Bob Torres, 20 citations</b><br /></p><p><br /><a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5664210.pdf">Method and system of providing multiple selections in text on a computer display</a><br /><b>5,550,210 - with co-inventor Bob Torres, 6 citations</b><br /></p><p><br /><a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5953710.pdf">Children's credit or debit card system</a><br /><b>5,953,710 - 16 citations currently</b><br />I independently filed this patent while developing www.trademark-search.com, funding and working directly with a patent attorney at one of the top IPL firms. The other patents are from UI work I did at IBM.</p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16812082.post-1126897500323918882005-09-16T12:02:00.000-07:002005-09-16T12:05:00.326-07:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Sunshine </span>at lastStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373768992717933342noreply@blogger.com0