jamin on February 25th, 2003

My friend, Max, was interested in writing an IRC bot. I suggested he either write it in Perl or C#, listing advantages of each. Click below to see my very simple examples of about the most basic bot possible. Both bots don’t really do anything other than connect to an IRC server, [...]

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jamin on February 20th, 2003

Boy, I haven’t written one of these journal entries in a while. I guess the most important bit of news in my life is that I have to move out of my apartment by April 1st. I’m looking for a house or apartment to rent, possibly with as many as two other guys (Ryan, [...]

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jamin on February 20th, 2003

In Part I I listed some code to create a server and client for .NET remoting. The client requests an object from the server and then can work with that object. In this example I have some code that works similarly except we take an existing object and publish it for a client [...]

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jamin on February 19th, 2003

Well it’s not WebServices, but I was playing around with remotinglast night and found it works quite well in mono, at least for mysimple test. I started to look at remoting after a discussion withAdam and another friend online about how to expose an API of an existingprocess to external processes. The example [...]

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jamin on February 17th, 2003

Need a gift basket for any occasion? Check out our friend’s new business at Buckton Gifts.

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jamin on February 17th, 2003

Amy was playing around with photoshop last night and created some humorous pictures of me:
I’m an angelWith an incredible capacity for beerand cigarettes

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jamin on February 14th, 2003

Anonymous writes: Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard [...]

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jamin on February 14th, 2003

Anonymous writes:
A is for academics, B is for beer. One of those reasons is why we’re not here. So leave a message
Very fast:) Hi, this is 904-4344. If you want to leave a message, please wait for the tone. If you want to leave your name and number, please press pound, press 3, [...]

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jamin on February 13th, 2003

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In celebration of Valentine’s Day Once upon a time… In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, [...]

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jamin on February 11th, 2003

Well, GNOME 2.2 is out. It’s definitely the best GNOME release to date. GNOME is moving in the direction of making things work and work well, right out of the box. There’s still a lot of work to be done, and some people will complain about missing features, but GNOME 2.2 is [...]

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