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CT Scanning of the Head (Computed Tomography or CAT Scan) |
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Topic: Technology |
12:41 am EDT, Jun 2, 2006 |
What is CT Scanning of the Head? Computed tomography (CT), sometimes called CAT scan, uses special x-ray equipment to obtain many images from different angles and then join them together to show a cross-section of body tissues and organs. CT scanning provides more detailed information on head injuries, stroke, brain tumors and other brain diseases than do regular radiographs (plain x-ray films). It also can show bone, soft tissues and blood vessels in the same images. CT of the head and brain is a patient-friendly exam that involves radiation exposure.
I want to get the digital format from them and import it to 3DSMax and shoot my brain with a cartoon bullet. But they say I can only have a printout, and I have to bring it back because its hospital property. Fuckers. Its my brain. CT Scanning of the Head (Computed Tomography or CAT Scan) |
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CSPServer, State-based Protocol Server Class - The Code Project - Internet & Network |
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Topic: Technology |
10:36 am EDT, Jun 1, 2006 |
CSPServer is a VC class which makes it relatively easy to create solid, multi-threaded client/server state-based protocol servers (SPS). Common existing standard client/server SPS systems are SMTP, POP3, FTP, NNTP and others systems which millions of people use every day on the internet. CSPServer gives you a time-tested, well engineered framework to create your own standard protocol server or a new protocol server that suits your needs. CSPServer is used in Santronics Software's intranet hosting product, Wildcat! Interactive Net Server (http://www.santronics.com) to provide an integrated multiple protocol intranet hosting system. Proprietary virtual communications technology was removed to make a public socket-based only version of CSPServer. This article will explain how to use the CSPServer class with working SPS examples. This is the author's first CodeProject article subsmission, so all commentators and critics are welcome.
A pretty good reference implentation of a simple state-based protocol server. Very readable C++. CSPServer, State-based Protocol Server Class - The Code Project - Internet & Network |
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SOAP Examples in Perl, Java and C# |
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Topic: Technology |
12:56 am EDT, May 29, 2006 |
Simple Code Examples * These first examples are of SOAP-based Web services and their clients, where SOAP is a acronym that once stood for Simple Object Access Protocol but now stands for the trendier Service Oriented Architecture Protocol.
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Gliffy.com - Diagram and draw in your web browser |
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Topic: Technology |
3:28 am EDT, May 27, 2006 |
The next Writely to be acquired by Google, this thing is pretty cool. It is a flash based groupware app for charts. Its still in beta, and it shows. There are noticable bugs, and editing in it is about half as nice as OmniGraffle, my normal diagram software. What Gliffy lacks at the moment, but sorely needs is SVG import. If I can export from OmniGraffle or Visio and import into Gliffy, then it is good enough right now to be very useful for collaboration. I frequently use writely to create first drafts of documents with collaborators. I would use this too, if it were easier to use. Right now the "feel" of the editing is not quite there, and there are no snap-grids to align objects with. And when one zooms, the cut and paste changes the scale of the object in the clipboard. I look forward to trying Gliffy the next time I need to collaborate on a chart. Its pretty cool. I clicked publish on this sample diagram to show what Gliffy can do: http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1005576/L Gliffy.com - Diagram and draw in your web browser |
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SOAP Client Sample Code in C++ |
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Topic: Technology |
5:22 pm EDT, May 25, 2006 |
The sample demonstrates how to write a SOAP client application using SQLData SOAP Client library. It accesses the web service at http://www.soapclient.com and calls Method1 to get an echo of the two input parameters
Was thinking REST, but SOAP looks pretty easy to use... SOAP::Lite in perl makes writing servers easy. SOAP Client Sample Code in C++ |
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Ingres Corporation — Dave Dargo’s Blog |
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Topic: Technology |
8:49 pm EDT, May 24, 2006 |
I became a programmer. After a number of years I easily started to differentiate between those for whom I wanted to work and those I didn’t. I quickly realized that the people who managed me were ones to avoid and those that led me were to be followed. I started to see the difference between management and leadership. The differences were stark. The managers told me what to do, when to do it and how to do it. Some people call this micro-management. The difference between micro-management and macro-management is the size of the magnifying lens. Micro-management, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The leaders, on the other hand, painted a broad picture of the goals, removed obstacles and trusted me to use my innate skills to achieve those goals. There was coaching along the way including advice, counsel and strong mentoring. The leaders never had me work the weekend to “get the TPS reports out.”
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Prevalence Layer for Java |
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Topic: Technology |
7:50 pm EDT, May 24, 2006 |
For all the details, read the papers and articles. The basic ideas behind prevalence are as follows: * Keep all objects in memory all the time, and access them as in-memory objects. * Every operation that affects the "persistent" state of an object must be implemented as a serializable command object (see CommandPattern). When a command is executed, its serializable form is written to a log file. When the system is restarted, the prevalence system re-executes all these serialized commands, thus restoring the states of all the in-memory objects. * You can cause a snapshot of current object states to be stored, so that when the system is restarted, you load the snapshot and then re-execute the commands that have been logged since the snapshot was created.
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