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The reader comments on these articles are themselves interesting. I especially think this one is telling: "As a Java programmer I haven't looked up searching and sorting algorithms in Knuth". Being a Java programmer myself, I can certainly appreciate having these kinds of algorithms in a standard library. I still think you should spend some time with Knuth or some other book (or online documentation) and understand how they work. That's one problem I see, not enough programmers today learning the fundamentals and just letting the libraries do all the hard lifting for them.

Eric
Thanks to All-Bran, William Shatner 'goes like no man has gone before'

The funny thing is that if a RoboLawyer did exist, you'd probably have to use a clickwrap license to download it in the first place.

I actually preferred Amazon's default search algorithm before they introduced "Search Inside the Book", because it limited its searches to the bibliographic data. Now when I do a search I get lots of books that contain the words I'm searching for, but that's not usually what I want. Annoying, and I have to go to the advanced search page for what I want.

I think keeping Google's Web index separate from the Print index is a good thing, based on this experience.

A lot of developers are confused about J2ME, I have some overviews on my site at www.ericgiguere.com/j2me that should clear things up somewhat, including my handy-dandy J2ME acronym list.

Things are getting more exciting in the J2ME world, though I'd like to see more devices supporting the Personal Profile come on the market. It's interesting what people can do with today's devices and the quite-limited-in-comparison Mobile Information Device Profile.

Eric

A lot of developers are confused about J2ME, I have some overviews on my site at www.ericgiguere.com/j2me that should clear things up somewhat, including my handy-dandy J2ME acronym list.

Things are getting more exciting in the J2ME world, though I'd like to see more devices supporting the Personal Profile come on the market. It's interesting what people can do with today's devices and the quite-limited-in-comparison Mobile Information Device Profile.

Eric

Sprinkle the Iocaine powder on their All-Bran cereal.

Yes, you also see him on TV pushing (good way to describe it!) All-Bran quite, ahem, regularly in Canada. I just find it funny that they don't use his name anywhere on the box. That's why I call him the "nameless cereal box celebrity"...

Eric

Willian Shatner pushes Kelloggs' All-Bran these days. (Okay, pushes, wrong word!) Still, with the aging Trekkie demographic, perhaps not a bad choice.

You can always have your browser masquerade as a different browser. See my page Masquerading Your Browser for details. There's a link at the bottom to a page with instructions for Mac users.

Eric