Sitemap - 2004 - Mark Watson’s Artificial Intelligence Books and Blog
Combining Java with other languages
Lisp vs. Java products, ant build process
Cut down the trees: payoff to political cronies
I may be Java developer, but...
Oh, the crap they try to feed us
Open file formats and AbiWord 2.2.2 for OS X
Great! a web site for home/amateur movies
Lisp world: the old and the new
Supporting infrastructure for nurturing creativity
Why should the USA have to be a net importer of food? And, starving children.
NetBeans 4. Free vs. commercial development tools.
I think that I will buy a PlayStation Portable (when available in the US)
Too cool: a 'Comic Book' to teach you Lisp (online web site)
Most productive programming languages and platforms
How much productivity is lost due to Microsoft software?
I really appreciate Google Adsense ads
Authoring plain web pages vs. Semantic web pages
Weird: so now Alan Greenspan and I are in agreement?
Magnolia v2 Java-based Content Management System
Dumping on our kids and grandchildren: raising the national debt limit
Semantic Web: replace RDF storage with relational database?
My free advice to Steve Jobs: movie equivalent for iTunes music store
Simplified EJB 3.0 specification: still not sure how much I will use it
Using Firefox client, server side Java for a standard platform
Excellent summary of Bush economic policy
A great software demo; tools for creating demo movies
Hypertext and Knowledge Management: personal history
Ongoing education: something a little different
100,000 Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths Since War
Cool: free music CD in November WiRED Magazine
OpenCroquet improvements: coming fast
Visiting San Diego - I just saw a large screen iMac
Why doesn't Alan Greenspan level with us about the economy?
Write once, compile and run everywhere
Good book: The Definitive Guide to Plone; my AI products
I visited the Arcosanti archology last night
the intellectual exercise of figuring out the world
OpenCroquet announcement and paradigm shifts
Waiting for free software releases
GMail is getting better and I am really enjoying Clusty
Second brilliant thing I have seen today: Rich Hickey's Lisplets
Brilliant: article about database wrappers in Python
My email to Microsoft requesting OOo file format support as a standard feature for Word
A great article by Senator John McCain on courage and social responsibility
Small and nimble: small but valuable companies in the future
Automatically sorting out "Java blog entries" from "non Java blog entries"
Major update to one of the best AI programming languages and platforms: Swi-Prolog
Good thing: European OSCE commision to monitor U.S. elections in November
Use the right tools for a job: platform choice vs. available open source projects
Why don't we call 'tax cuts' 'tax deferments'?
One of my favorite things about Java: packaging both code and data in JAR files
Amazon's A9.com search portal is cool
Being an OS X user I forgot about the hassles of Windows and Linux
Demand for U.S. Treasury Notes by foreign banks at a historic low
AI research at Microsoft: question answering system
Budget deficit is $422 billion - or $571 billion counting borrowing from social security
Kerry and Bush: keeping fairly quiet about urgent economic problems
Why do I have to read foreign news to get accurate information on my country's economy?
Tailoring web apps to use FireFox; comments on Open Source
Why Open Source will win in the Knowledge Management and Document Management space
Sometimes I change my mind: Dave Pollard on free trade
Automatic add-on module installs with PLT Scheme, Squeak, etc.
Google file system, large scale architectures, Smalltalk Open Croquet
Outsourcing (Slashdot), and why we will hopefully not have food shortages in the U.S.
What is up with people setting CLASSPATH?
Slashdot: Why is Java un-cool?
Tomcat as an application platform: enjoy the simplicity
Calling 'return' in a JSP, avoiding sendRedirect(...) problems
Using GMail to keep track of competition
Archiving data (semantic web, business, etc.) in XML
I am back from traveling to my niece's wedding
3D graphics with Squeak Smalltalk and LispWorks Common Lisp
Software patents: eventually giving the edge to the third world?
Why it is OK for Republicans to vote for Kerry
PDF files should be offered in two formats for 'laptop viewing'
I prefer writing server side web apps - that is why I like Java
Corporate owned news media has voted: Bush wins!
OpenOffice 1.1.2 available for Mac OS X
Building gcc-3.4.1 from source: Java gcj
Fahrenheit 9/11: skillfully done: I recommend it to both Democrats and Republicans
Outsourcing time zone advantages, reverse outsourcing
Trying the NetBeans 4.0 developer build
Sun's Java Studio Creator, other web app development tools
Sun's Java Studio Creator for Mac OS X
OpenOffice batch Microsoft Office document converter
Computers: low power better than faster?
The bad effects of the news business
Sometimes you just need commercial software development tools
Squeak Smalltalk: almost as good as Lisp for experimental programming
Using Java applets for UIs for Lisp applications, and web apps in general
The death of an Open Source Project
Web apps, Microsoft, Mozilla/Firefox
If you only read one news article for the rest of this year
No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda, 9/11 Panel Says
My flat screen monitor: the parrot perch
High value of informal code inspections, even for single developers
Google News, 'real paper' newspapers
Why I love Java: somethings are so easy to do...
Very cool: Loom Knowledge Representation System is open sourced
Free J2EE 1.4 stack: JOnAS 4.1
More on commodity hardware and software
My Slashdot posts on being interviewed at Google
Complexity of Java code for reading OpenOffice.org documents vs. Microsoft documents
Open document formats: anyway to force Microsoft to use unencumbered formats?
Best hack award: NeoOffice/J: using Java to get OpenOffice.org running without X11
Could be the best editorial of 2004 (so far)
Fed has increased money in circulation (M3) by levels usually only used in a dire crisis
Server side Java: less is more?
How to increase our national security
cheap hardware and free software: disruptive technologies
I turned off my old blog service at knowledgebooks.com
I am appreciating JavaScript more
Economy: short term view is mandated by politics
UPI: Amnesty International Report: really sad
Writing custom JSP tag libraries: yeah, like cleaning out the garage
New Springer-Verlag catalog: 9 new books on the Semantic Web
MSNBC: "General is said to have urged use of dogs"
Still loving the Prevayler Java object persistence framework
Microsoft's Office and web services plan; risks of proprietary formats
New version of Protégé Ontology editor, and other semantic web tools