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Some of you might know through IRC discussions that I use a weird gamepad-like keyboard: the AlphaGrip. While it took me a while to learn, this device took away most of my RSI and shoulder pains, and it allows me to type while standing.
 The company that created the AlphaGrip was chosen by Yahoo! and Ivanka Trump as one of five finalists (out of over 9,000 entries) in the Yahoo! Ultimate Connection Contest. If they win this, they'll have a good amount of more funds to improve the current keyboard and make it wireless and even better for touch typing by possibly rearranging a couple of keys and creating different sizes of the device so that it fits better in larger or smaller hands. So, if you have a couple of seconds, please vote on Mike Wilner, entry 5, here: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/ultimateconnection/index.php?... If you're really motivated, vote each day until the 25th, that will help a lot. Thanks for lending a hand! |
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The podcast of my mini-talk at JavaOne 2007 has been published on java.net, this is the abstract: State management has always been a complex and tricky part of web application development. Continuations simplify this and automatically allow you to create a one-to-one conversation between users and a web application. State preservation and flow control no longer need to be handled manually, bringing you back to the simplicity of single user console applications. Remember 'scanf()'? This presentation will introduce continuations from general principles, followed by practical examples that explain how they benefit web application development and their frequent usage patterns. Finally, automatic fail-over and scalability will be demonstrated through the integration with Open Terracotta. You can listen to it here. The corresponding slides and examples can also be downloaded. |