"gequirlte zahnspangen?" she asked.
"[...] I found it interesting that you proposed that they could be used in place of the Algol 'begin' and 'end' keywords, which is exactly how they were later used in the C language." – bob bemer: The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase.
"JoSQL (SQL for Java Objects) provides the ability for a developer to apply a SQL statement to a collection of Java Objects. JoSQL provides the ability to search, order and group ANY Java objects and should be applied when you want to perform SQL-like queries on a collection of Java Objects."
For example, to find all the HTML files that have been modified in December 2004:
SELECT * FROM java.io.File WHERE name $LIKE "%.html" AND lastModified BETWEEN toDate('01-12-2004') AND toDate('31-12-2004')
via o'reilly's code zoo.
cloße, but no ßigar.
the text-transform: upper; css definition is very nice. however, it's not very well supported for special cases (like the german ß ligature) by neither iexplorer nor firefox, for example:
firefox is großartig!
firefox is großartig!*
* internet explorer will display "FIREFOX IS GROßARTIG" and firefox itself will drop the last character and show "FIREFOX IS GROSSARTI"
fortunately, a simple additional space will fix the ß-tranformation at least for firefox:
firefox is großartig !
related: i18n tests: text-transform.
regarding the current opera buffo austriae one might think that 2005 is not the year of the austrian republic'S anniversary but rather the year of its teething troubles or even its demise. almost incredible.
and, as usual, the silence ("talkin' loud and sayin' nuttin') of the conservative lambs is hardly to stand.
as if the death of the pope and, in consequence, the proclamation of the austrian theocracy yesterday was not enough already.
mmmh, antville in the news again: one of the rare austrian coverages about blogging which does not forget to mention our "notorious" little piece of software. thanks, derstandard.at, it feels great!
better than prophane.
bhutan. the last place on the roof of the world aiming for gross national happiness. and the first nonsmoking nation.
poor .us
Your Privacy at Stake: Decision Made to Disallow Private Registrations for .US Domain Names.
"The effect of this decision is to disallow new private domain name registrations on .US domain names. In addition, if you already own a private .US domain name registration, you will be forced to forfeit your privacy no later than January 26, 2006. By that time, you will need to choose between either making your personal information available to anyone who wants to see it, or giving up your right to that domain name." – bob parsons.