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About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

I want this now….

Posted on September 23, 2004 by James McParlane

mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msnse/0409/23062/Gavin_Bierman/gavinbierman_0001_56K_110K_300K.wmv

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The Powder Of Sympathy

Posted on September 22, 2004 by James McParlane

Around 1700 – A Royal Committee was formed to gather ideas and a prize of £20,000 was offered to the person who could determine longitude at sea. One suggested method was that a mysterious substance called “powder of sympathy” if … Continue reading →

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mutable in C++

Posted on September 20, 2004 by James McParlane

I’ve gone back to some refactoring for a few days to solve a problem that has been annoying me for a while. The solution is found in some C++ arcana that I always used to avoid due to porting issues, … Continue reading →

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Nanotech Visuals Rides Again

Posted on September 8, 2004 by James McParlane

Some of my old rave visuals is being used in an episode of a local TV show called. “All Saints“. I am being told I am getting a credit – which will make a change from the last production that I was … Continue reading →

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I've Read That Java Has Just Overtaken Cobol As The Most Popular Language

Posted on July 29, 2004 by James McParlane

“I’ve read that Java has just overtaken Cobol as the most popular language. As a standard, you couldn’t wish for more. But as a medium of expression, you could do a lot better. Of all the great programmers I can … Continue reading →

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Cough Cough…

Posted on July 28, 2004 by James McParlane

I soldier on. Favorite new word. ‘syntagma‘. Designing a new nifty data structure to enable efficient & fast construction of optimal combined lexical and LALR syntax parse tables from a context free grammar. Fun thinking time ahead. I’m going to sit down with … Continue reading →

Posted in XPath | 4 Comments

A Very Old Sig (circa 1997)

Posted on July 22, 2004 by James McParlane

— James Mc Parlane  The Evil Brotherhood of Mutants Graphics/Video Dept of R&D ALIFE   Voice +(61-2)9660-4174 fax 9699-9888 Data  +(61-2)####-####              C/C++ source nanoTECHno  33.6k !warez        PC/AMIGA/NEWTON Loosely Coupled Super Computing Project     … Continue reading →

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Sickness and Housekeeping

Posted on July 22, 2004 by James McParlane

First conjuntivitis brought home by number one son… then the flu has gotten me again.. a week spent with little brain. Got a new desk. Everything looks better now than it used to. Defragged my HD. Hope this will stop the … Continue reading →

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Sick for two weeks now.

Posted on July 22, 2004 by James McParlane

Been coming home and going right to bed so no time for any fun coding. Spent the weekend at parents in law’s house so no work done this weekend.. It was so damn cold in Sydney that I would have … Continue reading →

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On the mend..

Posted on July 22, 2004 by James McParlane

Tickle Tickle.. cough cough.. Sadly my last antibiotic consumed yesterday so I now exist without the support of modern medicine. An all-nighter at work.. I’ve cut my compulsory 1 hour of coding a day down to 15 mins. Still making progress. … Continue reading →

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