Maiar's Vault

And then there was cusp! It will probably have better appeal for people who like gui's for their lisp development. http://www.paragent.com/lisp/cusp/cusp.htm

To redirect standard error and output to different files, you can use grouping: % (cat myfile > myout) >& myerror

Going to Las Vegas today .... Yahooooo

I have been pretty busy and haven't been able to update my blog in a while but. The good news is that I have started a new job at Yahoo in Burbank

FUNCTION unixtimestampToDate( in_Date IN number ) RETURN DATE IS BEGIN RETURN to_date('01-jan-1970', 'dd-mon-yyyy')+ (in_Date / ( 60*60*24) - (5/24)) ; END ; FUNCTION DateToUNIXTimestamp( in_Date IN DATE ) RETURN NUMBER IS BEGIN RETURN TRUNC( ( in_Date - TO_DATE( '01-jan-1970', 'dd-mon-yyyy' )) * 60 * 60 * 24 +(5/24) * 60 * 60 * 24) ; END ;

I have tried many things and I can't figure out how to dynamically include my adsense code into my web pages only using javascript. I have gotten close but my web pages go blank. I'll pay $20 to anyone who can show me how to do it successfully Steve

I have been doing research on Programming Lanuage Theory or PL Theory. Been reading a lot on Paul Graham's Site and Lambda the Ultimate. So far so good but there is a lot more reading to do. I see a lot of promise in Arc, if it's ever completed . I have big concerns about an appropriate launch and set up of Arc with a community. Also see a great need for appropriate introduction of a very good alternative option formate for Arc. Sexp are dangerous and always have been, it's not their inherent power but human consumption that is a problem. What is Arc? It's a language being developed by Paul Graham Who is Paul Graham? A popular tech essayist, entrepreneur and lisp evangelist

Reasons you should learn other languages like lisp, scheme and haskell continuations,macros,monads and method pattern matching .... just to name a few

Here is how to create a sequence and two of the most popular functions to use on a sequence. CREATE SEQUENCE <seq_name> INCREMENT BY <integer> START WITH <integer> seq_name.NEXTVAL seq_name.CURRVAL Example: CREATE SEQUENCE MySeq INCREMENTED BY 1 START WITH 1

I can't wait to see Laurie, fall is my favorite time of year and miss when I don't spend it with Laurie

Another day is going by, traffic was brutal 2 hours to get to the train station to pick up my friend and coworker brent. Today I am working on data warehousing. Last night I spoke with Laurie I am so proud of her because she is working so hard studying for finals. Down side today I have a dentist appointment and am having a filling replaced with a mold.

I'm back. Took the standard red eye back into NY. Arrived early like 7:20 am my parents were nice enough to pick me up then I went sleep promptly at 10am. Woke up like 5pm and that was my sunday. On the upside spoke to my friend arizona.

Well, I am telecommuting in Southern California again, and am being quite productive with work and Laurie is staying up very late every night to fit more studying in. I am usually in bed before her for work in the morning. My arm has been bothering me again so I have been hitting the pool before work and after work. This is the first time I have been able to do this since the community pool just opened up. Evening have been okay filled with lots or reading and eating dinner with Laurie. On the reading chopping block have been Atmel AVR Programming, Assembly Language and .net Mobile Programming. Little bit diverse I guess but all embedded programming a lot more embedded than I am used to.

Resources - Great Place to start finding information http://www.avrfreaks.net/AVRGCC/ From what I am told the best c library and environment to use with AVR's, Also been told that WinAVR is used in conjunction with AVR Libc WinAVR http://winavr.sourceforge.net/ AVR Libc http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/ http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avr-libc/

If you need a lisp IDE you have 3 good choices 1) Emacs -> lots of programmers use it. 2) Slime -> recommended, live interaction with lisp run time. 3) Allegro CL IDE - Commercial Lisp Product

I enjoyed this weekend and celebrated my mom's birthday. I went to Manhattan to treat my Mom and Dad to brunch at the boat house. Then walked around the city with my parents and friend Brent. Saw the Top of the Rock ( Much better view than Empire State Building with no lines). Other than that spent some time relaxing, watching Underworld Revolution and Studying atmel programming working on a Atmega8 Schematic. Now on to the wonderful work week

Well today Laurie has to do a Fetotomy in school and now am learning something new. A Fetotomy is when you have to remove a dead baby cafe from the mother cow surgically.

Me and Laurie were getting back from San Francisco and was about 4am the day Steve Irwin Died, Laurie room mate pointed it out to us. At that moment it didn't bother me very much because I was so tired. But it hit me the next day and since them has really bothered me. I am not sure if it's because he has little kids or such a giving person to the world through his conservation and teaching efforts. Either way the world lost a great man, and I wonder who will carry on his legacy. http://www.crocodilehunter.com/ The family wants people to give to his charity Wild Life Warriors if you want to give in his memory. http://www.wildlifewarriors.org.au/ RIP Steve Irwin you were a good man!

Think my cold has stableized and isn't getting worse I think that it's a good thing. But getting better is slow work.

I love it every time I get to visit Laurie in SoCal. This time started off good, Spent time studying with Laurie. Then right after I arrived I caught a cold, I feel like dirt right now. It's so much harder being sick and telecommuting for work than being sick in the office especially because your under the gun to produce and all I want to do is crawl under a rock and die. On a brighter note, this past weekend I got to hang with an old SigEp Buddy of mine Craig Reiser I am hoping my luck will change by the end of the week Peace Steve