I read an interesting article in the SMH a few days ago about a technique for preparing children to learn to read by increasing their ‘phonemic awareness’.
The first thing I think when I read about any innovation is “does it really work?” — the evidence was addressed by a single paragraph:
After 13 weeks [...]
I suppose Watergate is the archetypal example of the consequences of the cover up being worse than the original offence, but you see it all the time.
The example I have in mind has less geopolitical significance, but will probably be more interesting for most readers.
A company named PopCap Games publish a nice little game called [...]
From the lifestyle section:
USING a solarium increases a person’s risk of developing melanoma by 15 per cent and the risk rises to 75 per cent for those who used them when they were younger than 30, a major review has found.
I suspect that the melanoma rate among under 30s sunbed users isn’t 75%, and what [...]
I’ve integrated CAL with a variety of Java based frameworks/environments: Tapestry, GWT and Google AppEngine for instance.
Recently someone asked on the CAL Google Group whether CAL programs could run on Android mobile devices. Android doesn’t use a standard JVM, it uses Dalvik, and it provides a subset of the normal JRE library.
I have put together [...]
From an article in today’s SMH:
The State Transit Authority’s own figures show the number of people travelling without a ticket or with the incorrect ticket has shot up by more than 40 per cent in the past year.
Is this true? Unfortunately it’s contradicted by the very next paragraph:
From March 1 to May 31, 2008, officers [...]
Since writing my set of function combinators for matching HTTP requests I’ve realised that there are better approaches.
While the combinators read nicely, once you start extracting attributes from the request things become messy, due to the hAnd combinator composing results as nested pairs.
Here’s an example:
skitchPutHandler = let [...]
Introduction
My implementation of Hangman has only very simple data storage requirements, so my CAL module Datastore doesn’t cover the entire capabilities of Bigtable.
All the application needs is to be able to save a Game instance, put the key of that instance into a cookie in the user’s browser, and then retrieve and update that instance [...]
This post describes a simple implementation of the game ‘Hangman’, written in CAL for Google Appengine.
Introduction
Hangman is a simple word guessing game — the computer chooses a word, telling you only how many letters it has. You that it contains a particular letter. Correct guesses fill in those letters in the word, until you have [...]
I’ve always hoped that Java would be the next Google App Engine language. Google have provided a solid platform with a ‘real’ JVM and few restrictions.
I deployed the sample application created with the Eclipse plugins a few minutes after my account was upgraded to support Java, and then I went on to deploy an application [...]
From an ABC report:
The Australian Hotels Association (AHA) says people should be forced to forfeit some of their annual leave if they do not take enough holidays. The association says Australians are saving up too much money, while the tourism industry is floundering. AHA chief executive Bill [...]