Author: mcherm
Here is my election guide for the primary elections in May of 2011.
It is less neat than usual, partly because it has been completed at the
last minute. Bold candidates are the ones I am endorsing.
PA Superior Court Judge, DEM candidate
David Wecht
PA Commonwealth Court Judge, DEM …
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Posted Tue 17 May 2011
by mcherm
in Politics
A few notes on a bug I had so next time I won't make the same mistake.
In spring-ws, in the class
org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage, in the method
getImplementation(), it uses
SaajUtils.getSaajVersion(SOAPMessage) to determine the SAAJ version
of this message. Unfortunately, that has a bug …
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Posted Sun 08 May 2011
by mcherm
in Programming
On reddit, I recently answered a
question
which I thought was rather interesting.
There are 8 cards to be drawn from. We are 5 players, each person
picks a card randomly from this pile.
The first time around, everyone picked cards at random. After the
game was over, we shuffled …
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Posted Tue 03 May 2011
by mcherm
in Math
So, I got a new PC at work, and I moved to Outlook 2010. A great
annoyance was that whenever I tried sending email, the entire global
corporate address book popped up. After some time searching, I figured
out how to change this setting, and thought I should record my …
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Posted Fri 25 March 2011
by mcherm
in Uncategorized
Today I would like to celebrate a victory. A small victory, and one
which was decades overdue, but an important victory nevertheless. A few
hours ago, the Senate voted for closure (time to stop debating) on the
repeal of 10 U.S.C
§654, the law that
prohibits gays from …
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Posted Sat 18 December 2010
by mcherm
in Politics