20 May 2010

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo and Prefuse

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo - ACM Queue

Prefuse
Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity. Prefuse is written in Java, using the Java 2D graphics library, and is easily integrated into Java Swing applications or web applets. Prefuse is licensed under the terms of a BSD license, and can be freely used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Meraki WiFi Stumbler scans wifi channels

Meraki WiFi Stumbler lets you scan for wifi networks and see whose using which channels. Very useful.

14 May 2010

C-to-FPGA from DRC Computer and Impulse Accelerated Technologies

Algorithmic Trading News | Algorithmic Trading Software developers get new high performance computing C-to-FPGA tools | Automated Trader
DRC Computer and Impulse Accelerated Technologies have announced that the Impulse C™-to-FPGA tools have been integrated with the DRC Accelium™ coprocessor card, enabling software engineers to fully access hardware acceleration using familiar C programming methods. This integration provides C-language control of I/O, memory, streams and signals at the hardware level, allowing applications to leverage the high parallelism possible in FPGAs for higher performance.

Concurrent JUnit Tests With RunnerScheduler

02 May 2010

Finding Out Where Your Class Files Are | Javalobby

Finding Out Where Your Class Files Are | Javalobby
ProtectionDomain protectionDomain = HyenaDesk.class.getProtectionDomain();
File codeLoc = new File(protectionDomain.getCodeSource().getLocation().getFile());