How vista is made

Found on slingshot - thats just hilarious. Just remember: dinosaurs had a large body and a small brain and the brain was in the tail.

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html

Yet another summer job

Dear all, here is another summer job offer. Please contact me if you are interested!

This position requires probably a student that has completed 2^nd year (B+ grades or better) and has undertaken papers that gave them experience with Java programming environment. We will need a student that is motivated and able to think pretty independently – eg be comfortable with searching web for the tools/compliers they may need, and setting up the environment on a PC. There will be plenty of help available but it won’t be a hand holding situation.

The project involves editing, compiling and testing J2ME applications (mobile games). The source code is already written and tested, our project is to edit it to work on different devices.

Let me know if you think you have a suitable candidate for this work. It will be for the whole summer vacation period (10 days off at Xmas), 30 to 40 hours per week, paid at Student Job Search type rates and based in Wellington.

JUNG (Java Universal Network/Graph Framework)

I have found a very useful open source Java library that seems to be suitable for projects dealing with graph/network analysis, small world stuff and visualization.
Its called JUNG (http://jung.sourceforge.net/) , and people from UC Irvine and MS are behind it. In a nutshell, it provides a lot of graph algorithms "out of the box" including shortest path , clustering, generating graph layouts .. (see API doc for complete list: http://jung.sourceforge.net/doc/api/index.html ). It also does the anti gravity - spring based animated layout and supports custom renderers for nodes and edges, all very very easy to use.

Next IIST Seminar

Our next IIST seminar is on UML:

Presenter: Prof Dorina C. Petriu, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Title: Performance Analysis of UML Software Models

Date: Wednesday, 13th December 2006

Time: 13:00-14:00

Venue: AgH3.43A (student project room), via video conferencing in Wellington