http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id= 2009-01-09T18:53:35+01:00 text/html 2008-05-17T12:47:22+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.2 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=stocks:source_functions&rev=1211042842 (NOTES) What are the fundamental elements of a function? What are the fundamental elements of stock data? Stocks data in its most raw format is a list of events, but functions can't directly use events as input. (so a "source function" ... text/html 2008-05-16T08:38:20+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.2 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=stocks:summary&rev=1210941500 Stock Forecast Ecosystem Simulator Source Functions Source Functions will provide data directly from the stocks. Transformation Functions Transformation Functions will manipulate the data from source functions and from other transformation functi... text/html 2008-03-31T11:44:08+01:00 daniel@208.65.192.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=notes:problematic_data_schemas&rev=1206978248 Problematic Data Schemas Record here data schema situations which are problematic for one reason or another. Form Upload The idea behind this schema is to have a generic storage of uploaded files, some of which are forms. However, a form is suppos... text/html 2007-03-13T13:30:48+01:00 warrenfalk@70.212.67.171 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=notes:webmethods&rev=1173807048 webMethods Source Control Benefits Code merging Actual parallel development Lower-level revision management (at the flow-step, even property level instead of flow level) True "patch" deployment (can overwrite only the parts of flows or ... text/html 2006-03-02T13:55:16+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ideas:entertainment_system&rev=1141325716 Entertainment System Comment on this page Functionality Pause/Rewind Live TV Ad-hoc Recording Timer-based Recording Program Guide-based Recording Watch DVDs (VCDs etc) Save to DVD/CD Backup DVDs Video Games (and emulators) Basic Video Editing (Cu... text/html 2006-03-02T13:07:24+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki&rev=1141322844 wiki Wiki at warrenfalk.com DISCLAIMER: This wiki is my scratch pad. I'm using it to take notes, tell stories, and publish an information important enough to type but not important enough to spend time designing a dedicated page. So the stuff in ... text/html 2006-01-04T14:51:22+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=fallacies:fallacies&rev=1136404282 Fallacies Fallacies - Logical Errors used in debate. Ad Hominem Against the person Arguing that the claim is false based on the claimer's merit A makes claim X, A's merit is in question, X is false Tu Quoque You Also Arguing that... text/html 2006-01-03T15:57:48+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:story&rev=1136321868 wiki >> story The Story This is a story about me, Warren Falk. I'm a software developer. I love to write code and have loved to since I was a young boy. Back then, my kind were called hackers. Since then, the meaning has changed, but there a... text/html 2005-12-13T17:06:23+01:00 warrenfalk@198.187.174.15 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:tech_interview_questions&rev=1134511583 Tech Interview Questions .NET Questions Describe the difference between a Thread and a Process? A process is an operating partition of memory and resources. Processes do not share memory. Processes may have multiple threads. The threads can share m... text/html 2005-12-13T16:50:36+01:00 warrenfalk@198.187.174.15 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:tech_interview_questions:standard_lock_double_check_example&rev=1134510636 [created] Standard Lock Double Check Example class Singleton { public static Singleton GetInstance() { if (_Instance == null) { lock(_Instance) { if (_Instance == null) { _Instance = new Singleton(); } } } return _Instance;... text/html 2005-11-29T16:16:21+01:00 warrenfalk@198.187.174.15 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ideas:stock_pick_evolution&rev=1133298981 [created] Stock Pick Evolution The concept: Conceptualize an entity which consists of processing instructions. The instructions take as input information about stocks (securities). The output of the processing is a suggestion as to what stocks to buy and wha... text/html 2005-11-28T16:08:54+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=evolution:evolution_for_creationists&rev=1133212134 Evolution For The Creationist Introduction The purpose of this essay is to explain the case for evolution to anyone who is a creationist as I was. If you are a creationist looking to discredit evolution, I invite you to critique my essay. I have writ... text/html 2005-10-18T15:21:43+01:00 warrenfalk@198.187.174.15 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=notes:desktop_environment_gui&rev=1129663303 [created] Here is a page where someone is comparing various desktops. The features (or lack of them) that he notes are of some interest. He isn't necessarily the last word in GUI's but he does have points worth pondering. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_... text/html 2005-10-12T12:23:19+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:failure_of_medicfusion&rev=1129134199 Failure of Medical Website Endeavor This page is here to serve as an update to friends and family who are interested in my current situation regarding my endeavor into the medical software business world, and the ensuing disaster. In early 2004, I ... text/html 2005-09-15T10:40:11+01:00 warrenfalk@198.187.174.15 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ideas:bug_tracker&rev=1126795211 Bug Tracker Ideas Functional Notes Source Code Integration - Must integrate with source control in such a way that given a work activity, one can find the appropriate code changes Abstract Distinction - Makes a distinction between symptoms and fix... text/html 2005-08-17T16:22:34+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ideas:os_gui&rev=1124310154 Operating System GUI Ideas See the discussion. Take the concept of a desktop with it's readily accessible files and list of running tasks (really not a complete list, but a list of the the interactive applications you have running). now split that... text/html 2005-08-17T15:38:56+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.1 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ideas:rts&rev=1124307536 Real-Time Strategy: Game Ideas Visit the discussion forum on this subject What To Avoid Excessive emphasis on building (Build Wars) where the game is won and lost based on who built fastest before either side even contacted the other. Excessive t... text/html 2005-06-04T18:37:32+01:00 warrenfalk@65.26.145.48 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=notes:strange_relational_database_situations&rev=1117924652 Strange Relational Database Situations Clothing Store Tiered Pricing A clothing store has a line of products. Each product comes in multiple sizes. The store wants to charge using tiered volume discounted pricing. They want each product to have one... text/html 2005-05-16T22:54:07+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.87 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:my_linux_from_scratch_endeavor&rev=1116298447 My Linux From Scratch Endeavor This is a very rough draft log of what steps I took to build a linux system from scratch using the linuxfromscratch.org (LFS) website. The end goal of this is to create a pristine managed code environment (such as Java... text/html 2005-05-16T20:22:02+01:00 warrenfalk@10.10.10.4 http://www.warrenfalk.com/wiki/doku.php?id=notes:distributed_file_system&rev=1116289322 [created] Distributed File System A distributed filesystem, also known, sometimes, as a clustered filesystem appears to be a filesystem to an operating system (such as linux) but is actually spread across multiple filesystems on multiple machines connected vi...