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In late March (on our fall equinox), the Sun finally fell below the horizon. Coinciding with sunset, we were looking forward to seeing an atmospheric effect called a 'green flash,' but unfortunately it was overcast at the time. This green flash can be seen elsewhere in the world during sunset or sunrise over a clean, clear horizon (such as over the ocean on a calm, clear day) but can be more prolonged here due to the relative speed of the Sun. However we did distinctly see another atmospheric effect, that of the Earth's shadow being cast across the sky. It is now dark, the stars are shining and, albeit faint, we saw our first glimpse of auroras (down here they are called the southern lights or, more properly, "aurora australis") in mid-April.
In my previous entry, I promised that I would talk about the physics experiments that are taking place here. Since that time a major discovery was announced from data that was collected at the South Pole. There are telescopes here that, rather than looking at visible light, collect microwave frequencies from space. By observing these wavelengths of electromagnetic energy, scientists can learn more about something termed the "cosmic microwave background," which is left-over energy from the Big Bang.
By mapping this microwave data across the sky, certain characteristics (B-mode polarization) were found that were predicted to be the result of a rapid expansion of space, thus providing empirical evidence for the period of inflation following the Big Bang. It is a very exciting result for astrophysicists! The data used to make this discovery was actually collected a couple years ago from an older generation instrument called BICEP2, which will be followed up next year with a new generation telescope called BICEP3. The current microwave telescopes here include South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the SPUD/Keck Array.
It turns out that the South Pole is a great place to collect microwave radiation from space for several reasons. The remote location is isolated from local microwave sources. We are also on a plateau of ice at a high elevation (9301 feet), so there is less atmosphere in the way. Thirdly, the extreme cold also means the air here is very dry. Water absorbs microwaves (this is how a microwave oven works), so having less water in the air means the sky is more transparent to the frequencies of interest.
Of course, there's plenty more science happening down here, but I'll save that for next time. In the meantime, feel free to submit any questions you might have and I will try to answer them!


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- Hi, you can try these two papers, they quantified a buch of grass species (prairie) from the Larzac "plateau". It may help
- Pérez-Ramos, IM, C Roumet, P Cruz, A Blanchard, P Autran, & E Garnier, (2012) "Evidence for a 'plant community economics spectrum' driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France." in Journal of Ecology, 100:1315-1327
Ignacio M Pérez-Ramos, Florence Volaire, Matthias Fattet; Alain Blanchard;
Catherine Roumet (2012) Tradeoffs between functional strategies for resource-use and drought-survival in Mediterranean rangeland species. Environmental and Experimental Botany (don't know the exact volume)
- What is the average temperature where you are going to plant (winter / summer) ?
- Clover tends to have a relatively shallow rooting depth compared to other legumes.
- You can find some information on the references below.
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- White clover will grow a tap root for the first 18 months to about 0.5m - this will then die and the nodal roots will then only grow down to about 10 cm. Red clover has a tap root and will compete down to about 1.5 m, lucerne will grow to beyond 3 m if the conditons are correct. The difficulty is maintaining the clover with the grass. Perennial ryegrass, tall fescue and orchard grass (cocksfoot) will all extract water to about 1.0 m in free draining soils and out compete the legumes. But the vast majority of their roots will be in the top 0.5m as you requrie so the peach tree roots should get below them relatively quickly. Maintainence of a legume with the grass can be aided by not using much nitrogen fertilizer. So if your environment is temperate with free draining soil and a pH above 5.8 I would recommend red and white clover and cocksfoot, no nitrogen and mow the cocksfoot to stop it getting clumpy. If you experience any periods of summer dry then cocksfoot is the most suitable species for moderate fertility soils. For high fertility soils the choice is perennial ryegrass or tall fescue - the fescue will be more competitive and survive warmer conditions than the perennial ryegrass - In New Zealand we use perennial ryegrass, in warmer areas of e.g. Southern USA it won't survive and tall fescue would be the choice of grass. So the answer,as always is, it depends on the interaction of soils, climate and management.
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Among perennial grasses you could chose the highly competitive species Dactylis glomerata or Holcus lanatus, which have shallow root systems (80% of root biomass in the top 30 cm, in my experiment).
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Fort F., Jouany C., Cruz P. (2012) Root and leaf functional trait relations in Poaceae species: implications of differing resource-acquisition strategies. Journal of Plant Ecology
Fort F., Cruz P., Jouany C. (2013) Hierarchy of root functional trait values and plasticity drive early-stage competition for water and phosphorus among grasses. Functional Ecology
Among legumes clovers species seems to be the best choice, in my experiment Trifolium campestre is an annual clover with one of the shallowest root systems, but I'm not sure that it could compete efficiently with peach tree.
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Among cool-season perennial grasses, Agrostis capillaris is a shallow rooted species and grows well in cool, high-rainfall areas specially in acid soils.
Among cool-season perennial legumes, Trifolium repens is one of the shallow rooted forage legume species and do well under grazing conditions.
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- Among cool-season grasses, in arid area with mediterranean rainfail pattron, annual raygrass (Lolium multiflorum), is more shallow rooted species and do well under grazing.
- Thank you for very informative answers which are very helpful. I had identified Trifolium as a shallow-rooted specie but I needed confirmation. As for grass, I was thinking of festuca ovina and Poa annua, and wasn't quite sure about raygrass. So with all your comments, I will see with local seed companies and local farmers which species mix is best adapted to my area (mediterranean rainfall pattern, with mean summer temperature : 22°C and mean winter temperature 9°C) among the following: Trifolium, Dactylis glomerata or Holcus lanatus, Festuca sp. and Lolium multiflorum or Lolium perenne.
- The suggestions for using annual plants for your competitive ground cover seem very appropriate but you may want to consider some type of stoloniferous grass species such as used by the turfgrass industry. Assuming you plan to achieve maximum stress from the deficit irrigation treatment during fruit development, select the type of plant that will compete with the peach roots prior to and during this period. My question for you is: what type of irrigation are you using? I am initiating some work on grapes with some of the same goals as you mention and am working with some irrigation engineers on developing a deep emitter to inject the irrigation delivery sub-surface. I would like to collaborate with you and others on approaches and ideas. If you are interested, let's exchange some e-mail.
- Pete,
Thank you for your reply and advices. I would also like to collaborate on approaches and ideas, so I agree to exchange some email. I guess we should use our email boxes instead of exchanging here?
To finish off with the exchange here, I am using surface drip irrigation with four 4L.hour-1 emitter per tree. I have considered buried irrigation but was advised against, since you have to make sure emitters don't get clogged, and if they are, you have noway of knowing it since they are buried (I guess you can get around it with thoughtful design though). One another advice I have recently received about the way one should provide water in Mediterranean climate in order to force tree roots to grow deeper, is to saturate the soil profile with water (by means of flood irrigation or long drip irrigation I guess) to recharge deeper soil layers, before high tree demands (spring). This is an idea I keep in mind for next year, when the peach tress I have just planted will be well established.
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Learn the algorithms and tools you need to build MapReduce applications with Hadoop for processing gigabyte, terabyte, or petabyte-sized datasets on clusters of commodity hardware. With this practical book, Author Mahmoud Parsian, head of the big data team at Illumina, takes you step-by-step through the design of machine-learning algorithms, such as Naive Bayes and Markov Chain, and shows you how apply them to clinical and biological datasets, using MapReduce design patterns.
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MapReduce Algorithms in Action!
By Dariush the MapReducer!
from Palo Alto, CA
About Me Designer, Developer, Educator, Maker, Sys Admin
Comments about oreilly Data Algorithms:
* simple Spark and MapReduce solutions to data design patterns* all examples are complete and running!* great selection of algorithms for engineers and bioinformaticians * Great Book on MapReduce algorithms!
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Best Practical MapReduce Algorithms
By Jane Sharif
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I have read so many books on MapReduce algorithms, this book is different: it brings simplicity and practicality to the real world! The author has explained hard concepts by simple MapReduce algorithms and examples and showing step-by-step amp() and reduce() applications. I have already applied some of these algorithms for my projects. Great book!
Learn MapReduce with real examples
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I used several MapReduce algorithms for my real projects at work. I was able to copy the skeleton of programs from GitHub, then tweak them and use it.The author has presented important algorithms with simple MapReduce and Spark programs, which really works.
Excellen resource for MapReduce recipies
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This is a very extensive book about using Hadoop and Spark to implement various algorithms. A variety of algorithms, from simple secondary sort to RNA sequencing is covered in this mammoth book.The author has provided a complete set of several algorithms, and their implementation in both Hadoop and Spark. Algorithms include implementation of several common data algorithms such as Top-N list, K-nearest neighborers, recommendation system, sentiment analysis and Markov Model in MapReduce. Several statistical problems are also included, such as Pearson Correlation, Cox Regression, T test and so on. The author also covers DNA/RNA sequencing, Allelic frequency and Gene aggregation.Overall, this book is an excellent resource, one of the very few books which properly explain how to use MapReduce to solve problems. Each algorithm is properly defined, defines the map/reduce strategy and has explanations of both Hadoop and Spark code. The author assumes the reader has basic proficiency in Hadoop, so this may not be useful for a complete beginner. The source code for all algorithms is also available in the appendix.On the downside, explanations could be a bit more detailed. Also, as of now, the book still had hand drawn pictures, but I expect they will be removed in the final release.
I would buy this product again
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Data Algorithms at Work!
By David the programmer
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This book brings data science to reality. Details are provided on MapReduce and distributed algorithms. It has interesting chapter on monoids and MR and optimizations. Working examples are extremely helpful. Well done!
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Covering a wide variety of MapReduce
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Enjoyed reading this book (can use for my work!): covers a wide variety of MapReduce and Spark programs. This is the first MR book which covers DNA-Seq and other statistical algorithms. Well done!
Great MapReduce Book
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Great MapReduce book on variety of topics. Detailed examples on using Spark and Hadoop for MapReduce algorithms. The best part is that all solutions has source code on GitHub: https://github.com/mahmoudparsian/data-algorithms-book
MapReduce is nicely explained!
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The author has given solid and working examples using MapReduce, Hadoop, and Spark. The range of algorithms spans from basics to sophisticated (such as Markov chains, DNA-Sequencing, Naive Bayes, kNN, ...). I have already applied some of the MapReduce algorithms for my work. Spark examples show step-by-step how to apply data algorithms to solve real problems.Some of the shell scripts needs to be polished (I am sure it will, since it is an early release!).
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Great Book, BUT....
By Don E
from Phoenix AZ
I am happy to be putting this out before the book is out... I have read the first six chapters and i really like it. But one thing i have a problem with is the idea of using the Old API instead of the new one. For instance, using the JobConf(which i thought was depreciated) class instead of Job Class on the new API. I tried to get this across to Mahmoud Parsian, but i was unable to find an email. So could someone please get the message across
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Ram 1500 vs F150
Hi, Im new to the truck wold and Im hunting for a used one for 14kish. Ill be selling my mustang and financing on it.
Anyways im on a fence of the 2, I love both but have never used either truck.
Ive found most 03+ rams to be cheaper than 04+ f150s, any reason to this?
And what are reasons I should get a ram? Ive asked at an f150 forum and am interested on what both owners input is on this.
Im looking for 4x4 and room in the cab with a strong v8.
With an f150 I have to choose 1 of the 2.
With a ram I can get a quad and 4x4 it seems.
P.S. gfs a ford fan but screw her input=P its biased.
I drive lots of rental trucks for work, as well as own both a F-350 and a Ram 1500. I like to think I'm fairly impartial on the matter.
When it comes to the 1/2 tons, the 04+ Ram with either a 4.7L or a 5.7L win me over everytime, and I don't include the 03 because that hemi is bastardization of the magnum and hemi with very little support for the year. Ford builds a solid truck, they have a lot fewer issues overall, compared to all the manufacturers, it's just their engines that really lets it down. The 4.6L Triton was a decent motor for very light duty work, but the 5.4L was disappointing when it came to actually doing anything with. They were very poor on fuel mileage, I know, I had an '06 for a year from work... averaged 13mpg mostly highway. One thing it did do well though was haul weight, it had 365ft-lb of torque, and the cam was geared towards torque, no so much towards economy or speed. That said, I personally found the 3rd gen MDS hemi (06-08) to give the best of both worlds when it came both power and fuel economy. I average 17mpg on 87 through the winter with a very heavy foot, 19mpg in the summer, but when I put the MDS back on with the programmer and run 91 for long trips I've managed 21mpg with a quad cab short-box 4x4.
The 3rd gen rams tend to be less money because the ford has always had a higher resale value based on their known durability. I'm not saying the Dodges are unreliable, I'm just saying that after being the #1 selling truck in north america for 24years, they've got a good thing going on. It will be hard to find a F-150 that's got the club cab and is 4x4, they are not common, so if you particularly NEED the cab room, then you're better off looking at a Ram for those given years. They finally wised up in '07 and started putting longer cabs on the 4x4 frame, but sadly most ended up with the 5'4" bed, which is almost useless if you haul anything large.
I hope this helps.
If you are looking to spend 14k, you are pretty much restricted to 3rd gen, those trucks depreciate like their value has lead weights attached to them. The ONLY reason I went with a dodge was because the 4th gen's are so much better than anything else on the road. Their resale value seems to hold steady once it hits about 20-25k. In 2010, my truck was a year old. I got it used, with 42k on the clock, for $21,000. Has every option I thought was possible to get in a truck at the time, except for leather, which I did not want anyway.
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if you can find a 3rd gen with the 5.9 diesel, 48re trans, 2500, you have found one of the most durable trucks made. great mpg and longevity. just make sure it wasn't chipped. i can't give an unbiased opinion between dodge1500 and f-150. just research the 5.4 engine as i "think" they were the most common.
The thing about diesel's though...if you dont USE them like they are designed to be used (towing, hauling heavy), you will "wetstack" the engine, causing oil blow-by...or worse.
There's several things to consider IMO.
I'll say first of all, just about any new truck is a pretty good truck (even ford, chevy, nissan, toyota) even though I would never buy some of them and I "hate" them lol. Vehicles now a days have great quality and all perform well.
Sounds like you'll be looking at trucks about 5 years old give or take with your price range.
The hemi blows the 5.4L away both torque and hp. It also gets better mpg and is equally reliable. If you want a really strong engine I'd shy away from the ford 4.6L v8 in the ford and also the 4.7L v8 in the dodge(unless it's a 2008 and newer 4.7L, although that still may be "weak" for you, depends what you want). I will say that I have the newer 4.7L in my quad cab, and my father in law has the 5.4L three valve head in his late model F150 ext cab, and mine can pull just as much(although not rated for it) and is faster.
Both the fords and dodges have great transmissions during those years.
Both have good differentials, I will say that I think most if not all the fords had LSD, where many dodge's did not. Also though, with that "new" differential ford came out with they had many issues with them.
The dodge's are more comfortable and roomy inside. Also have larger brakes.
The rest is mostly opinion, appearance, options, etc...
The dodge is a much better value.
maybe i was lucky as i drove 65 miles round trip to work, like i said mine were dily drivers and grocery getters.
ive owned both I owned a 05 supercrew and a 08 ram with the hemi. the ram had way more power than the 5.4. but the ford was way roomier. if you want power and probly a little cheaper price look at the dodge. but if you want more room look at the f150 it just all depends on what you want. believe me the backseat was not very comfortable in my 08 dodge quadcab. there just wasnt a whole lot of room not compared to the f150
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There are pretty much only two outcomes for this, guess which one happens!
There are pretty much only two outcomes for this, guess which one happens!
This video clearly highlights Zane's humble and modest personality.
You need to see this video from 1999ish(?) and watch Eric Zane take on two little people inside the squared circle!
This is guaranteed to be the summer's biggest smash hit! Not just this summer, but every summer til the end of time!
Well, that didn't turn out as he planned...
"To each their own" and all...but this is some crazy nonsense.
In case you missed the stunt when it happened Friday, you can watch the video right here!
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I've started working on a DarkEden game mod (actually I have been for that last little while...) Just for fun and to further develop my game. The idea is to replace the 'place-holder' assets with real art later once I am ready to work in a team on my project - or otherwise just leave it as a mod... Anyway:
Here is the hospital level I've been working on:
CIty Level:
Hopefully I'll find some time to put up some gameplay footage as well.
Today I have decided to write an article not so related to game development (yes, JevaEngine is coming along very nicely in-case you are wondering.) Instead I will be focusing on the difference between checked and unchecked exceptions, what the general consensus is on them and my opinion on them.
First, lets define quickly the differences between the two types of exceptions and what their intentions are, then I will go through my experiences with either one and where I rest my opinions now.
Checked Exceptions vs Unchecked Exceptions
NOTE: Before I begin, I should state that this conversation is from the 'ideal' usage of checked exceptions. Not all API designers take this approach! You will encounter frameworks/APIs that only use unchecked exceptions due to the development project's stance on checked/unchecked exceptions.
An unchecked exception is your conventional exception. It can be thrown from anywhere, and it can be declared in a try-catch clause anywhere. Some typical examples of this are (in the JDK) IndexOutOfBoundsException, IllegalArgumentException etc... These exceptions are designed to be thrown when the programmer is using a particular interface incorrectly. As per this logic, it would seem as though there is never an approriate circumstance to be catching unchecked exceptions. We'll find later on why it would still make sense to declare them in a catch clause.
For example, the following code will throw an unchecked NullPointerException, opposed to a checked FileNotFoundException.
String fileName = null;
try(FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileName))
} catch (IOException e) { }
Checked Exceptions are used to describe errors that may occur, and their ability to occur is entirely out of the hands of the programmer using the interface throwing them as well as the interface implementation itself. That is to say that even if the interface is used 100% properly, and its implementation is 100% free of bugs, it still may encounter an error performing its task. So for example, you could reconsider the FileNotFoundException shown above. Whenever you open a file, you must deal with the possibility that it does not exist. Whenever you open or read from a file, you must deal with the possibility that an IOException occurred when attempting to gain access to the files data. In essence, whenever you are dealing with an external device you need to appreciate that it could fail.
To reiterate, if an interface's ability to fail is out of the hands of the programmer and in the hands of an external source of information or device - then it should be a checked exception. If it's ability to fail is in the hands of the programmer (passing null as an argument to a method which states in its documentation that null not a valid argument) then it is an unchecked exception.
Where it gets interesting
Sometimes you will encounter situations where a checked-exception being thrown by an interface should be, in your very particular circumstance, interpreted as a unchecked exception. These are *rare* - and you should almost never do what I am about to show you (if you don't think checked exceptions are evil - otherwise you probably already do it all over the place...)
Consider the following code sample:
try {
URI files = new URI("file:///a/b/c.txt");
} catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
//This will never happen
In this case, we are providing the constructor of URI a valid syntactically correct URI, but we are still forced to catch the checked exception. In our particular circumstance, since the URI String is being defined by the programmer [and is not being provided by a source out of our control such as a text document or a user text field] it is actually an unchecked exception. As per our definitions above.
In that code sample, what we are doing is converting a checked exception to nothing. This is _very_ _very_ bad. This means that if someone comes along and changes that syntactically correct URI String to something syntactically incorrect, no one will ever know. They will get a NullPointerException when trying to reference the URI. Instead it is better to rethrow the exception as an Unchecked Exception.
try {
URI files = new URI("file:///a/b/c.txt");
} catch (URISyntaxException ex) {
throw new RuntimeException(ex);
Again, converting from an checked exception to an unchecked exception should be done with very careful consideration.
Now that I've made my point, URI actually provides a static convenience method for doing something very similar to this:
URI files = URI.create("file:///a/b/c.txt");
Going the other way
Sometimes you'll find some interfaces will assume the opposite to what is being assumed by URI's constructor. Namely, they will assume the arguments are being provided by the programmer and not the user. A good example of this is the valueOf static method of the class Integer. This method throws an unchecked NumberFormatException if the provided argument is not a valid integer.
If the argument being provided to valueOf is provided by an external source [text document, database, user interface] and cannot be guaranteed to be a valid integer then it should be caught and wrapped in a (ie FormValidationException) checked exception and be rethrown.
Leaky Abstraction
A popular argument _against_ checked exceptions is that they force/encourage a leaky abstraction. The reason people argue this is because they do not understand when you should stop throwing up a checked exception, and instead handle it or wrap it. They may also fail to understand one of the core abilities of an Exception [wrapping.] Lets start by describing the most common tools used for abstraction.
What is the core function of an interface? [not a Java interface - but an *interface.* Ie as per our definition, a concrete class also has an interface component, such as public members.]
Interfaces provide a means to communicate with an implementation (the specific mechanics of a solution.) They are _not meant to expose_ the mechanics or any details regarding them. If they do, then they leak details through the abstraction they mean to provide (Ie, the interface provides a _leaky abstraction._)
It is important to appreciate that checked exceptions are apart of your interface. In an interface they are meant to communicate the possible failures without exposing details regarding the mechanics of a solution. If you declare them incorrectly, then they too can be the cause of a leaky abstraction. Since error handling can be difficult, and abstracting mechanics can be difficult, you'll find a lot of programmers blame exceptions for their leaky abstraction. The trick to integrating checked exceptions into your application without leaking the abstraction is understanding when to handle exceptions caused by your implementation/mechanics, and when to wrap them & expose them to the user of your interface.
Exposing errors caused by your implementation through your interface
If you are have an interface that provides a particular abstract function, and an implementation of this interface encounters a error while performing that function, it should throw a checked exception that makes sense to the interface being used. For example:
You are contracted to work on an existing application that is a word processor. It currently has the feature to read documents from the local storage devices. It was well designed, so all of it's resources are accessed through a FileSystem interface. The FileSystem interface is designed like so:
public interface FileSystem
InputStream open(URI name) throws FileInaccessibleException;
public static final class FileInaccessibleException extends Exception
public FileInaccessibleException(URI fileName, Exception cause)
super("Unable to locate the file: " + fileName, cause);
The current implementation of FileSystem looks something like this:
public class LocalFileSystem implements FileSystem
public InputStream open(URI name) throws FileInaccessibleException
return new FileInputStream(new File(name));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e)
throw new FileInaccessibleException(name, e);
What we need to do is create our own implementation of this FileSystem interface that connects through a network and performs the same tasks. Lets assume that our implementation encounters an error opening a file due to it not being connected to a specific server from which to fetch these documents from. How would we communicate that error through the interface?
We could wrap a FtpFileSystemNotConnectedException through our interface by wrapping it with the FileInaccessibleException.
What if, in the middle of reading from a FtpFileInputStream, we are disconnected from the server? We can throw a FtpFileSystemNotConnectedException wrapping in an IOException.
Now presenting these errors to the user is another story. It is best to display the exception message, and then log the stack trace (for the developer to use if it was a logic error that lead to the throwing of the exception. [Your stack trace and your exception names is usually enough to resolve a logic error if the programmer needs to.]
Now you've only changed one interface, and you've added an incredibly complex feature. The application is inherently designed to deal with all the complex errors that can occur over a network communication etc.
When to stop propagating errors, and handle them.
Eventually you need to handle the checked exception. They are checked because they need to be handled. The way you can handle them can range from simply notifying the user that the service is not available due to X reason or provide a limited access to the component that depends on that service.
It is very important that when you are providing a limited service, or resulting to default (null) behavior, you log it & and the stack trace. Otherwise errors can be difficult to discover and locate. Here is a simple example of when you can provide null/default behavior.
The EntityFactory in JevaEngine throws a EntityConstructionException when it cannot sufficiently construct an entity for the game world. However, the factory tries its very best to construct the entity. If the only error occurs when attempting to evaluate the entity's associated behavior script, it is provided a default behavior.
Likewise, the WorldFactory will ignore entitys that cannot be constructed - rather than failing to construct the entire world. Of course it is important to log the exception that caused the entity to fail in construction, and the fact that the entity was excluded from the world. Otherwise it can become difficult to identify the reason behind its exclusion.
You could simplify the solution by simply throwing a WorldConstructionException as well, depending on how critical it the failed component is to the application.
My Experience with Checked/Unchecked Exceptions
Let me start by saying that I used to very much dislike checked exceptions. I would constantly let them propagate out and crash the entire system with a stack-trace to examine. That may work for very simple applications or very deterministic solutions. However, I found that as my game engine became more complex this behavior was simply unacceptable. For a lot of reasons, here are a a few I discovered over the 3+ years I've been expanding on JevaEngine:
- An interface's implementation should evolve, but using checked exceptions lets you be 100% sure the user of that interface is not receiving any unexpected exceptions it is responsible for handling. Ie, that there is a consistent contract between the user of an implementation and the implementation in terms of error handling. Remember that exceptions are apart of your interface's contract. Using checked exceptions appropriately assures that the contract is met.
- If you're building a framework, you should opt for checked exceptions. Why? Because using applications that don't cohere with your exception handling model (use of checked or not) is a huge pain in the ass - but if you don't use checked exceptions and a user of your framework does it has the potential of breaking their exception use model and creating an ambiguity between programmer error and natural failure due to some external source.
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I have written a custom XSLT (along with several changes to the dialogue system in the RPG base) that allows you to design your character dialogue in an mind-mapping utility called FreeMind. Here is quick demonstration (I'm short on time, and a picture is worth a thousand words...)
Note that the dialogue you are about to see demonstrated is meant to project a real murder case, and is thus graphic in nature.
Demo 3 is getting really close to being completed. There are a few issues/bugs to resolve.
Demo3 uses PARPG assets to construct an "investigation" quest. Unlike Demos 0-2 which are more action rpg orientated using the FLARE RPG assets.
As you may know, ISceneBuffer objects are responsible for handling rendering in JevaEngine. Today I've found some time to add a new ISceneBuffer object to JevaEngine's core. There are now two ISceneBuffers built into JevaEngine (it is very easy to use your own.)
- PaintersIsometricSceneBuffer which uses the painter's algorithm for rendering isometric scenes. This method is very quick but frequently fails if your scenes are not composed of strictly fixed sized blocks. It sorts based on the location of the entity - but ignores the containing bounds of that entity. Thus this makes it impossible to depth sort walls or gates that span across multiple tiles properly without breaking them into individually size tiles.
- TopologicalIsometricSceneBuffer is much more proper in terms of depth sorting scene components. It works with variable sized components and allows entities to be sorted properly on the Z axis. However, this sorting algorithm is much more expensive and has a complexity of O(n^2) That said, I have managed to get very large scene to be sorted in a manner of 1-2ms - which is perfectly acceptable.
Here is a test for the TopologicalIsometricSceneBuffer. You'll see the scene components and their respective AABBs.
There are three components visible in this image, the gas tank, the wind mill and the ground (which is a single component.)
In previous screen-shots, the ground was composed of many different components - each per tile. With this new depth sorting algorithm, the ground can be a single sprite (generated via tiled or rendered out of blender etc...) You can imagine that generating the meta-data on a per-tile basis would be a lot of work (especially if you have a lot of tiles) so it is much more optimal to import them into tiled, construct a tile-able surface texture 20x20 tiles in dimensions use that instead.
Demo 2 demonstrates how you could use JevaEngine to implement various quest using a combination of quest-controlled-NPCs, and area triggers to initiate character dialogue. It also demonstrates how to use the dialogue system implemented by the RPG Base.
Below is a layout of our world in the world editor:
In the bottom left corner, you'll see a named entity placement "player." If we look at its import declaration (which can be edited via the GUI in the world editor - but I will list the JSON for convenience.)
"location" : {
"z" : 1.0099999904632568,
"y" : 44.0,
"x" : 19.0
"direction" : 8,
"name" : "player",
"config" : "artifact/entity/zombie/zombie.jec",
"auxConfig" : {
"behavior" : "artifact/behavior/character/puppet.js"
"type" : "character"
JevaEngine has been dormant for the last couple of months. The repository has also seemed pretty inactive.
Here is a sample of the current demo modules of JevaEngine and the world editor. They look the same (and admittedly could use some polishing) but they come after some major refactors on the engine. More details below the video.
I have been refactoring JevaEngine over the last month or so. These refactors come with some very important architectural changes that pushes JevaEngine towards a more flexible and powerful engine. I will be detailing the changes within the next few weeks once the refactored engine has been pushed to the repository. Below I will list some of the key changes to JevaEngine.
- All use of service locator pattern has been refactored out of the engine. The service locator pattern was used in JevaEngine to acquire an interface to the concrete implementation of Game, and to acquire an interface to the globally accessible asset factory (opening raw InputStreams to the game's filesystem.) This provided a convenient way for one to construct entities, open configuration files from anywhere inside of JevaEngine. However it also carried some issues, mainly allowing for global access to these resources (forcing factories to be thread safe) and hiding code smells that would usually become obvious.
- JevaEngine has now switched to an entirely Dependency Injection based model of passing around dependencies, using Guice to bootstrap the engine with the appropriate dependencies. This has allowed for more flexibility inside of JevaEngine. Including the ability to bootstrap JevaEngine with custom world, sprite, script, entity, physics and asset factories - allowing one to easily integrate custom file formats and scripting/physics engine seamlessly into JevaEngine.
- World projection has been entirely decoupled from the engine. Meaning one can implement various render perspectives into JevaEngine seamlessly. JevaEngine is no longer focused specifically towards Isometric Games, it can also focus towards platformers and top-down games. While no such implementations have been tested, it is theoretically possible to easily integrate these perspectives into JevaEngine.
- The world builder has been entirely reconstructed. The previous implementation was falling apart - mainly due to complications introduced by using the Swing UI subsystem so heavily. JevaEngine's new world builder is entirely based around the JevaEngine UI subsystem. This allows for a much more functional and cleaner implementation.
- JevaEngine now delegates Window construction to an injected Window Factory. The default Window Factory parses an external configuration file that defines the layout of the window and its style. The layout defines controls, their location and their respective properties (such as text, or width/height etc...) The constructed window is than injected with a behavior. This makes the task such as localization much more achievable. It also reduces the noise in UI relevant code by allowing the programmer to focus specifically on the behavior of the window rather than its layout.
- JevaEngine is now fully integrated with a physics engine (the default implementation is pure java Box2D, but it is very easy to bootstrap JevaEngine with a different physics engine.) Following this integration, JevaEngine now comes with some steering behaviors.
- These refactors have had a significant impact on the engine, and will also require some significant refactors to be applied to the client\server implementations. For the next few weeks, I will be focusing specifically on the rpgbase and the single player demos. The multiplayer implementation is being placed on the back burner for a few more weeks.
- JevaEngine now makes the appropriate use of checked and unchecked exceptions. This has made JevaEngine respond much more appropriately to errors. Developing with JevaEngine has become significantly easier. JevaEngine uses SLF4J to report errors (such as those that exist in entity scripts.) In the previous revisions of JevaEngine, when an error was encountered (such as one in an Entity's behavior script) an unchecked exception was thrown and eventually crashed the entire engine with an appropriate stack-trace. This is unacceptable and makes the job of a casual user of JevaEngine significantly more difficult. In the latest revision (in a scenario such as this) JevaEngine now logs the error in the script to the appropriate logger, and reverts to default behavior (such as that for an entity absent of a script.)
I now work full time (unfortunately) and have to work very hard to progress anywhere with JevaEngine. That said, I am very satisfied with the results of my work over the past few weeks.


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Now the time has come to drag the Easy Tiger Macchi 205 ARF out of it's box. I picked this up at the Toledo show on a whim... "ARF" and retracts. Basic specs are 98"ws, fiberglass fuse, built up wings / stab with tubes, etc. Figure I am going to a few warbird fly ins this year, and this would be an easy quick build. Like to take multiple planes when I travel in case of issues. Hope to take this one to Warbirds over Delaware in July.
I like the Macchi 202, and the 205 is the exact same airframe with a larger engine. The obvious visual distintion are the 2 large round oil coolers on the lower cowl. At first I thought I would kit-bash it into a 202, but further investigation of the engine installation stalled that idea as the engine hangs out so much in the lower area. I figured the 2 round oil coolers actually hid the engine better than a 202 style cooler. I was warned about the color - yuk yellow with strange non scale camo.. figured a repaint would be required, should be easy.
I have a Q 100 laying around.. figured this would be a decent powerplant. All I needed were a few servos.. so home it came. Easy, right? Read on.
First off let me say I generally don't do scale ARFs. I broke this rule as I like kinda weird aircraft that aren't seen everywhere. The Macchi's profile is "decent", but many areas aren't correct. Too bad, with a little more effort, they could have had a very nice semi scale cowl. Oh well, I knew it.
First major issue? The cowl is set up for a 6 1/4" spinner. No spinner is included. What the heck? WHY would they do that? really? Hmm. So, no problem, I made a cowl ring and extended the cowl about 1/2" then tapered it down to a 6" spinner I picked up from Dave Brown. BUT -
Before I could do that - it became very apparent when I tried to fit the cowl onto the fuse.. it didn't even come close to fitting? Really bad. Hmmmm what the heck! So I start grinding.. and grinding.... 2 itchy weeks later, I finally get the cowl seated. 2 weeks ! Really guys?? Dammit. What a mess, and the longer I worked on this "ARF" cowl, the more irritated I became. Made a huge mess, and I thought I paid for parts that would basically fit. I could understand a little bit of tweaking required - but 2 weeks??
After that, I mounted the engine.. oh, the plywood on the fuse was not really glued to the firewall? Really? Again I have to do a total rework, adding glue and glass to ensure the firewall is secured to the rest of the airframe. Hmm... more irritation.
OK - finally get the engine mounted.. good! Now, I tweaked the location to the lower side of the cowl. Why? The real aircraft had a droop in the top of the cowl. I tried to simulate this but mounting the engine low in the opening, and using my balsa cowl ring to make up for the difference when I sanded it to match the 6" spinner. Subtle, but I think it helps a little bit. Added some simulated air scoops they left off.
Plan to add some details to the plane before it gets painted.. easy stuff, some hatches, panel lines, etc. Little stuff that should dress it up a bit. Found some sand camo paint in a can - that'll work! Found some camo green as well. OK - test that on the cowl.. looks OK. Also find a good sky blue flat. Really close to a scale color actually.. and it's flat! I was really surprised.
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A: The IRS uses a pro-rata rule when calculating tax on Roth IRA conversions. As such, most of the conversion would be taxable if you already have a sizable IRA account. Also, if you are in a very high tax bracket relative to what your tax bracket will be in retirement, then the Roth IRA conversation doesn't really make sense.
For example, if you pay 30% in taxes today, and in retirement you'll be in a 10% bracket, then the Roth IRA doesn't help nearly as much in the future.
So it boils down to taxes today versus taxes tomorrow. If your tax rate will be similar (or higher) in the future than the conversion then it might make sense. If your tax rate will drip in the future than the conversion may not be beneficial.
Q: In the book "You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think" there is a section on Roth IRAs that says, "Contributions are made with after-tax dollars and can be withdrawn at any time without penalty." Recently, I visited a Financial Advisor who told me there is a 10% penalty even for contributions. Can you tell me who is correct?
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