Sep 11, 2013
Shokunin
Jiro Dreams of Sushi an excellent documentary. Jiro has a small restaurant in terms of size but it focuses on quality not quantity. Interesting to see their apprenticeship. Chefs practice for ten years. Every ingredient is scrutinized, tested. Some meats require lengthy marinating or massaging. From the rolls to the rice, there is an art to how each portion of the meal is prepared. Much like manufacturing process, they scrutinize their portions and ratios. From the purchase of the fish from the market, to the preparation, and eventually the display, QA/QC is very important to the entire process. They continuously improve upon their methods. Even though they thought everything that could be done had been done after WWII, Jiro was still creating new dishes. He would wake from dreaming with a new idea, which is when you try to
Sep 7, 2013
Android Maps Setup
Some notes from today
- Maps
- Requires play
- Android 4 required to run maps sample project:
- Boost memory in windows above 768MB: config.ini fix
- How to set up sample project so it really runs: Stack overflow
- There there's this issue: Google Play services out of date. Requires 3225100 but found 3136130
Sep 4, 2013
Sep 3, 2013
Open Graph protocol library for Java
I wasn't that impressed with the Java offerings out there that I could find for the Open Graph protocol.
- opengraph-java the toXHTML function fails., there are no tests
- open-graph-java Empty!
- og4j - I like that it handles multiples as per the specification (see this test for example).
I need to investigate these, could they have some shareable libraries?
Unsatisfied, I started a project at github: ogp-java. It does not handle multiple fields yet (2 image tags for instance).Sep 1, 2013
General nanosystems
According to this article, General Nanosystems closed July 31, 2013. Sorry to see them go, they were awesome
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