NetLogo – A programmable modeling environment

Earth’s Hum – Earth’s Hum is explained by scientists as being caused by waves in the oceans. If you haven’t heard Earth’s hum, well, that is because you can’t. Only the most sensitive seismometers can detect them.

Science vs. Faith

The Multiverse – Parallel Universes as explained by Professor Max Tegmark of MIT.

public string Caption
{
    get {return mCaption;}
    set {  }
}

This “pattern” was repeated on multiple properties in the class and on multiple classes in the assembly, so I knew that it wasn’t a mistake. So examining my simple code:

item.Caption = "Account Name";

item.Caption was never getting set and the code did not generate a compiler error. Had the Caption property not had the set { } line, my code would have thrown a compile error and I would have saved a good chunk of time debugging such a simple task.

In addition the the example above, there were a few other variations of a mis-implemented read only property, most curious was the following one, which does not make the ModifiedDate property read only, despite the presence of the [ReadOnly(true)] attribute, even though in this case, the property should probably should be a read only.

[ReadOnly(true)]
public DateTime CreatedDate
{
    get { return mCreatedDate; }
    set { mCreatedDate = value; }
}

Now, if you really wanted to make the Caption property read only, please, PLEASE, don’t write a setter, and don’t use attributes.

public string Caption
{
    get { return mCaption; }
}

0 = 4 – 4 + 4 – 4
1 = ( 4 + 4 ) / ( 4 + 4 )
2 = ( 4 * 4 ) / ( 4 + 4 )
…

There are also solvers out there in C# and also in Python.

The i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1); is the most curious part of the function, and apparently is has to do with Newton’s Method, which is an efficient way to approximate the roots of a function.

( via Slashdot )

Hawkeye — Edit .NET UI’s at runtime!

LogMeIn Hamachi — LogMeIn Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application.
Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. Its core version is also free.

Update…
I had to modify the original script for Myth 0.20. You can find my updated script here. (Right click and choose Save As…)

Too bad I will be back up into the double digits come tomorrow.

• Luke Ravenstahl – Pittsburg’s new 26 year old mayor.
• Magic Numbers – A history and a list of a few common Magic Numbers. Links uses 0xFEE1DEAD in it’s reboot() kernel call
• Changing VS.NET colors – A nice discussion ( with screenshots ) about what people have done to tweak what their VS.NET environments look like.
• VSStyler – Allows Visual Studio .NET 2003 to load and save font and color settings. (via Infinaties Loop)
• DotNetKicks.com – A Digg-like site for .NET information.
• Vibrant Ink – A black theme for Visual Studio 2005 based off of a TextMate theme of the same name,
• Typed Collection Wizard – A nice little wizard to create Typed-collections for those not fortunate enough to be running .NET 2.0

Other comics I visit regularly:

• Penny Arcade
• Dinosaur Comics
• Homestar Runner

What, if anything, do you all read?