WOW!

Impressive new technique to resize an image without altering the overall impression. Don’t just spot the first few seconds, see further to learn how it works.

http://francisoud.blogspot.com/2007/08/impressive-image-reduction-technique.html

Media Chart – The Rules

The chart rules are:

1. This is my opinion and this blog is the place I’ve chose to express it.
2. Visitor can express his/her own opinion by adding a comment to the related post. You can join me or try to convince me that I’m wrong, or whatever you want (see next rule).
3. Since this is my blog, I’ll monitor, from time to time, visitors’ comments and in case of my extreme disagreement with the content it is possible that I’ll remove a visitor comment. In this case I’ll try to ask the person who left the comment to post it somewhere else and I’ll consider leaving only the link to that place.

Media Chart – Kick off

I’m starting new project that will be published in this blog named “Media Chart” or “מצעד תקשורת” in Hebrew.

The concept is to have a place to express my personal opinion about different media elements such as: TV shows, writers, reporters, journalists, news shows, news papers, books etc. I think that the media knows how to criticize almost everything but itself. This is the situation now in Israel and I guess not only here (I like watching and comparing news from US, UK and Russia, yes, I speak Russian too). Well, the problem is probably interests. All have different interests and the media is not an exception. I don’t believe they can manage by themselves, so here we are, writing critique on the journalist, making good examples shine, asking for stopping real-tv shows where people loose wait by crying out for another sandwich after the gym (you can guess what will be in the Worst List, right?).

“Why here? There are regulators, forums, talk-backs etc. What’s new?” – Valid question. First of all, let’s discuss it. For now, I didn’t find any site that provides one central place to put a visitor opinion about a media or “a mediator”. Second, about the means: propose different alternatives, I’m open for your ideas!

The best way I think I can start this, is by organizing several charts: Best List, Worst List and Watch List (this one is for the topics I’m still not sure about). The subjects in the charts will be linked to the sources of the neutral information about them or official sites. I hope, I will find enough time and provide exact explanation why I put each and everyone in the place it belongs in my charts. The visitors of this site are invited to comment with their own opinion about the subjects so, you can influence my opinion and the place will be changed or even moved to the opposite chart. I’m not denying also another possibility that I’ll simply change my mind and move items across the charts. Again, I’ll try to explain why it’s happening.

When can JMX notifications be lost?

The JMX Best Practices guide says notifications can sometimes be lost. Why is that? When might it happen? Some answers.

 

By Eamonn McManus which is the technical lead of the JMX team at Sun Microsystems. As such he heads the technical work on JSR 255 (JMX API 2.0) and JSR 262 (Web Services Connector for JMX Agents).

 

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/2007/08/when_can_jmx_no.html

 

Java call stack - from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture

Call stack (including PDF printable picture) and huge but interesting talback log discussing the Java manners.

http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/java-call-stack-from-http-upto-jdbc-as-a-picture

ראיון עם בועז בערוץ 10

ראיון עם בועז בערוץ 10 על דברי ברק ה"נלחם בתופעת ההשתמטות מצה"ל "
http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=504213&pid=1

Introduction to Eclipse Plugin Architecture

Nice post with introduction to Eclipse Plugin Architecture

Includes examples for veiw, menu, preferences etc.

 

http://www.javabeat.net/articles/eclipse/2007/07/eclipse-plugin-architecture/