Suppose that your bank offers currency conversion as a service: give them a deposit or make a withdrawal in euros and they'll adjust your balance in dollars. They don't do this out of the goodness of their hearts: today's conversion rate is around 1.28 $ / €, so they'd give you 0 …
A brief hint: if you see an error message like this:
InputStream does not represent a valid SOAP 1.1 Message
check the namespace of the SOAP envelope
SOAP 1.1: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
SOAP 1.2: http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope/
Posted Mon 12 December 2011 by mcherm in Programming
I saw this interesting article about a weakness in the Scala language. The weakness applies not just to Scala, but to pretty much any language: the community using the language cannot grow past a certain point until it somehow solves the problem of libraries depending on other libraries in a …
Posted Wed 07 December 2011 by mcherm in Programming
My election guide for November 8, 2011.
My endorsements in Bold.
Retention of Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court (retain or not):
NO, do not retain! -- In 2006, The PA State Legislature voted itself a pay raise in direct violation of the plain wording of the state constitution which states …
If you have complete and accurate requirements for your project which won't change, and your development team is spot-on in estimating and highly consistent in their development pace. and there are no surprises, then you can produce highly accurate project timeline estimates up front. Such accurate estimates are (or, more …
Posted Wed 28 September 2011 by mcherm in Programming