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Soldiers Delight – both sides - The Baltimore Hiking Meetup Group (Baltimore, MD)
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A short, close to home hike for the weekend, that leaves time for other activities later in the day. That, and this is one ofmy favorite local parks. (We will meet AT the visitor's cennter parking lot. The Hike: This hike is an easy hike just under6 miles. We will hike the both sides of the park (east and west)

As long as Fido is leashed/well behaved, yes, this hike is pet friendly.

Directions: From I-695 take I-795N via exit 19 toward Owings Mills/Reisterstown. Take exit 7B on Franklin Blvd. west. Turn right on Church Road, left on Berrysman Lane, then left on Deer Park Road. We'll meet in the parking area outside the visitors' center. Look for a) a silver/grey Mazda6 with yak racks, and b) pair of overexcited dogs. Cell is[masked] My best guess is that the address here is 5100 Deer Park Road Owings Mills Md. . Lunch after is always an option.

Kate E. What is the change? Soldiers Delight - both sides 11:am 4/14/13 ----Yes???? 0 · April 13, 2013 TINA W Bringing my 11yr old sheltie mix - Tobey 0 · April 13, 2013 gibran I am coming from DC. Can I carpool with someone? 0 · April 12, 2013 Phyllis am also coming from DC; just sent you an email re possible car pool 0 · April 12, 2013 gibran Oh..I didn't get the email! Can you resend, and I will check again. 0 · April 13, 2013 Robert Sorry, got way too busy. What a life! 0 · April 12, 2013 Jeff T. Sorry, scheduled to work that day 0 · April 10, 2013 Lauren N. My husband and Dog would love to Join the fun :D 0 · March 28, 2013 Cesar S. i will wait it anxiously .......... 0 · March 19, 2013 Pam Bringing dog 0 · March 16, 2013 Kate E. I would love to do this one. Thanks for plenty of notice so I can ask time off work! Does anyone ever bring children? My grandson is 13. I guess I really need to be with adults more. Let me know, please. 0 · March 14, 2013 A former member Kate, I was looking to get out more myself, but I do like to include my sons. They can do 2 miles easily (ages 9 & 5). I plan on doing part of this hike w/my boys. 0 · March 14, 2013 Dominic F. 13 yo s should be fine. 0 · March 16, 2013 Judy W. and Pavel O'Casey (our lab) 0 · March 14, 2013 Kate E. This sounds really good to me. Count me in. 0 · March 14, 2013 Keisha C. I will have one of my dogs with me. I might also need to leave a little early as I have someplace to be at 2:00PM 0 · March 14, 2013 TINA W Bringing my 11yr old sheltie mix - Tobey 1 · March 14, 2013 A former member I don't know if I can make the whole hike if I bring my "littles" along (boys) but we'll definetly do a chunk of it. I've been wanting to check this park/trail out myself. 0 · March 14, 2013 35 went
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Project Description: I'm looking for a Wordpress theme that can handle a lot of content for an urban blog that I am creating. I have my own PSD that I created, so you will not have to design anything. For the most part the blog will be very simple. I have highlighted below the way I would like my pages to operate:Home PageThe home page will be a simple blog style layout that will display the 10 latest posts. I want the blog posts on the main page to function similar to this website:http://rapradar.com/Basically whatever the first photo or video is in the actual post will be displayed as a preview in the post on the main page.Categories (Concerts, Hoops, Sneakers, etc)The category pages will function and be the displayed the same way as all the posts in the Home page. The only fundamental different with the category pages will be the added addition of the "Sub Categories" widget. When ever an user clicks on one of the sub category links, it will then display only the posts that contain that specific tag. (i.e. If a user clicks on the 'Sneakers' page, a list of of categories will be displayed, Nike, Adidas, Reebok, etc.. When the user clicks on the 'Nike' links, all posts in the 'Sneaker' section will be filtered and any posts containing the "Nike" tag will be displayed.Single PagesI would like there to be share links for twitter and Facebook right below the title of the post. I would also like a comment section that is similar to the one found here:http://www.xxlmag.com/reviews/2011/11/drake-take-care/Lastly, I would like the Wordpress site to have clean code, W3C valid, cross-browser computability, and SEO optimized if possible.I have attached a mock of what the site will look like.
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Patent US5832440 - Trolling motor with remote-control system having both voice--command and ... - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsA device for controlling the speed and direction of a watercraft using voice commands. The device includes a voice recognition computer, which recognizes spoken commands, and a motor control computer which causes the speed and steering direction of the watercraft to change in response to the spoken commands....http://www.google.com/patents/US5832440?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5832440 - Trolling motor with remote-control system having both voice--command and manual modesAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS5832440 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 08/968,903Publication dateNov 3, 1998Filing dateNov 6, 1997Priority dateJun 10, 1996Fee statusPaidPublication number08968903, 968903, US 5832440 A, US 5832440A, US-A-5832440, US5832440 A, US5832440AInventorsDonald A. Woodbridge, Erik RuizOriginal AssigneeDace TechnologyExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (100), Referenced by (24), Classifications (10), Legal Events (4) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetTrolling motor with remote-control system having both voice--command and manual modesUS 5832440 AAbstract A device for controlling the speed and direction of a watercraft using voice commands. The device includes a voice recognition computer, which recognizes spoken commands, and a motor control computer which causes the speed and steering direction of the watercraft to change in response to the spoken commands. A remote control beltpack unit with a radio or infrared link allows free movement of the operator while controlling the watercraft.
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Acknowledgments Guide to Pronunciation Map The Summer Cicada and the Wonder Tortoise 5 The Little Sparrow's Small Happiness 7 Hui Shi's Giant Gourd 8 The Song Family's Secret Formula 10 The Useless Shu Tree 12 The Tattooed Yue People 15 The Music of the Earth 16 Zhao Wen Quits the Zither 19 Does Wang Ni Know? 20 Is Xi Shi Really Beautiful? 22 Li Ji's Tears 23 Zhang Wuzi's Dream 24 Shadows Talking 25 The Dream of the Butterfly 26 Three at Dawn and Four at Dusk 27 Hui Shi Leans against a Tree 28 The Cook Carves Up a Cow 29 Passing on the Flame 31 The Caged Pheasant 32 Like A Mantis Stopping a Cart 33 The Horse Lover 35 The Earth Spirit's Tree 36 A Tree's Natural Life Span 38 The Freak 40 Oil Burns Itself Out 41 The Tiger Trainer 42 Toeless Shu 43 Nature the Superhero 44 Forgetting the Dao 45 Zi Sang Questions His Fate 46 Digging a Canal in the Ocean Floor 47 Are a Duck's Legs Too Short? 48 The Lost Goat 49 Bandits Have Principles, Too 50 Good Wine, Bad Wine 52 The Yellow Emperor Questions Guangcheng 53 Nature's Friend 54 The Old Wheelwright 55 The Earth and the Sky 57 Crows and Seagulls 58 Confucius Sees a Dragon 59 Don't Ring the Bull's Nose 60 The Wind and the Snake 61 Courage of the Sage 63 The Frog in the Well 65 Learning How to Walk in Handan 68 A Crow Eating a Dead Rat 69 You're Not a Fish 71 Zhuangzi Dreams of a Skeleton 72 Sea Birds Don't Like Music 74 The Drunk Passenger 76 Riding with the Dao 77 The Sweet Water is Gone First 79 Lin Hui Forsakes a Fortune 81 Swallows Nest in the Eaves 82 The Mantis Getting the Cicada 83 Fan Was Never Destroyed 85 Knowledge and the Dao 86 Gengsang Forsakes Fame 88 The Yellow Emperor and the Pasture Boy 89 The Stone Mason and the Ying Man 91 Two Nations on a Snail's Antennae 93 Zhuangzi Borrows Grain 94 The Turtle That Could Predict the Future 95 Natural Use 97 Catch the Fish, Discard the Trap 98 Yang Zhu Studies the Dao 99 Zi Gong's Snow-White Clothes 100 The Bandit Speaks 102 Zhuangzi's Three Swords 107 Confucius in the Black Forest 114 The Man Who Hated His Footprints 117 The Man Who Hated His Shadow 118 Like a Drifting Boat 119 The Dragonslayer 120 Shattering the Dragonpearl 122 Don't Make Sacrifices 124 Zhuangzi on His Deathbed 125 Afterword 127
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From the chaos of 432 scattered pieces, Star Trek fans can slowly create order in the form of a nearly 2-foot-long model of the USS Enterprise. The interlocking blocks make more than just the ship's exterior; they also create the ship's bridge and engine cowlings, where Captain Kirk and Spock figurines can man and repair the spacecraft. At their command, the engines and deflectors glow as the ship readies itself for a trip into deep space or gives itself up in a game of intergalactic hide-and-seek.
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Good fun. Lego impersonators have come a long way. These blocks stick together well.

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GB Development Solutions Limited: Private Company Information - Bloomberg
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Company Overview of GB Development Solutions Limited
GB Development Solutions Limited engages in the construction and development of residential properties. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Sunbury On Thames, United Kingdom. GB Development Solutions Limited operates as a subsidiary of GB Group Holdings Ltd.
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A study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating clinical effects of platelet transfusion products: the Pathogen Reduction Evaluation ... - PubMed - NCBI
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BMJ Open. 2016 Jan 27;6(1):e010156. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010156.
Ypma PF1, van der Meer PF2, Heddle NM3, van Hilten JA2, Stijnen T4, Middelburg RA5, Hervig T6, van der Bom JG5, Brand A2, Kerkhoffs JL1; PREPAReS Study Group.
Department of Hematology, HAGA Teaching Hospital Den Haag, The Netherlands Center for Clinical Transfusion Research, Sanquin Research, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, Canadian Blood Services, McMaster University, and Centre for Innovation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Center for Clinical Transfusion Research, Sanquin Research, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, and Department of Clinical Science, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Patients with chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopaenia frequently experience minor and sometimes severe bleeding complications. Unrestrictive availability of safe and effective blood products is presumed by treating physicians as well as patients. Pathogen reduction technology potentially offers the opportunity to enhance safety by reducing bacterial and viral contamination of platelet products along with a potential reduction of alloimmunisation in patients receiving multiple platelet transfusions.
To test efficacy, a randomised, single-blinded, multicentre controlled trial was designed to evaluate clinical non-inferiority of pathogen-reduced platelet concentrates treated by the Mirasol system, compared with standard plasma-stored platelet concentrates using the percentage of patients with WHO grade ≥ 2 bleeding complications as the primary endpoint. The upper limit of the 95% CI of the non-inferiority margin was chosen to be a ≤ 12.5% increase in this percentage. Bleeding symptoms are actively monitored on a daily basis. The adjudication of the bleeding grade is performed by 3 adjudicators, blinded to the platelet product randomisation as well as by an automated computer algorithm. Interim analyses evaluating bleeding complications as well as serious adverse events are performed after each batch of 60 patients. The study started in 2010 and patients will be enrolled up to a maximum of 618 patients, depending on the results of consecutive interim analyses. A flexible stopping rule was designed allowing stopping for non-inferiority or futility. Besides analysing effects of pathogen reduction on clinical efficacy, the Pathogen Reduction Evaluation and Predictive Analytical Rating Score (PREPAReS) is designed to answer several other pending questions and translational issues related to bleeding and alloimmunisation, formulated as secondary and tertiary endpoints.
Ethics approval was obtained in all 3 participating countries. Results of the main trial and each of the secondary endpoints will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
NTR2106; Pre-results.
bleeding; bleeding assessment; pathogen reduction; platelet transfusion; thrombocytopenia
26817642
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Pathogen Reduction Evaluation and Predictive Analytical Rating Score (PREPAReS) research question (PICOT format).
BMJ Open. 2016;6(1):e010156.
PREPAReS trial design. The flow chart summarises the design of the PREPAReS trial; eligible patients may be enrolled more than once, for example, when they receive consolidation chemotherapy. *See also . PR, pathogen-reduced; PREPAReS, Pathogen Reduction Evaluation and Predictive Analytical Rating Score.
Inclusion in the study in case of a bleeding complication. Template for decision-making in case of a bleeding complication at presentation before enrolment of the Pathogen Reduction Evaluation and Predictive Analytical Rating Score (PREPAReS) trial. Bleeding grade is based on WHO bleeding scale.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 10/10, 30 Mar 2012
Lovely uplifting CD it is very therapeutic listening to this little beauty from December 1st onwards all the way through to the big day itself.
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Good cd to listen to over the christmas period and it also gets you in the festive spirit,also good at parties.
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Great Christmas CD with all the party favourites and even includes a couple of carols.My 4 year old daughter especially loves Vera Lyn's version of Away in a Manger.This is a bargain price too.
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Please don't buy this. It's a mismatch of tracks. Don't know what kind of party you'd have with this. Much better out there. Non original artists a real setback.
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this is the worst christmas cd i have ever had the plesure of listening to.complete waste of money have already put it in the bin.
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An all round good album for Christmas, however not what you'd expect as there are other songs too.Not bad
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Could of been better,the album lost its way halfway thru with boring sings.some of the old songs were just not christmas enough.
Complete Christmas Party by Various Artists (Audio CD - 2010)

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As Java deployments have become more complex, it has become harder and harder to get good insight into the structure and execution flow of the application. This applies particularly where middleware
As Java deployments have become more complex, it has become harder and harder to get good insight into the structure and execution flow of the application. This applies particularly where middleware and third-party components or legacy software that has little or no design documentation is involved. This session introduces you to software archaeology: how to build an understanding of the layout and execution of your Java application from the deployed application itself.
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Chris Bailey – IBM Java Service Architect2nd October 2012Software ArchaeologyRediscovering Your Architecture 1 © 2012 IBM Corporation 2.
Important DisclaimersTHE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PRESENTATION IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.WHILST EFFORTS WERE MADE TO VERIFY THE COMPLETENESS AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINEDIN THIS PRESENTATION, IT IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.ALL PERFORMANCE DATA INCLUDED IN THIS PRESENTATION HAVE BEEN GATHERED IN A CONTROLLEDENVIRONMENT. YOUR OWN TEST RESULTS MAY VARY BASED ON HARDWARE, SOFTWARE OR INFRASTRUCTUREDIFFERENCES.ALL DATA INCLUDED IN THIS PRESENTATION ARE MEANT TO BE USED ONLY AS A GUIDE.IN ADDITION, THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PRESENTATION IS BASED ON IBM’S CURRENT PRODUCTPLANS AND STRATEGY, WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY IBM, WITHOUT NOTICE.IBM AND ITS AFFILIATED COMPANIES SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USEOF, OR OTHERWISE RELATED TO, THIS PRESENTATION OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENTATION.NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS PRESENTATION IS INTENDED TO, OR SHALL HAVE THE EFFECT OF:- CREATING ANY WARRANT OR REPRESENTATION FROM IBM, ITS AFFILIATED COMPANIES OR ITS OR THEIRSUPPLIERS AND/OR LICENSORS2 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 3.
Introduction to the speaker■ 12 years experience developing and deploying Java SDKs■ Recent work focus: – Java applications in the cloud – Java usability and quality – Debugging tools and capabilities – Requirements gathering – Highly resilient and scalable deployments■ My contact information: – baileyc@uk.ibm.com – http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31006663 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 4.
Goals of the Talk■ Introduce the concept of Software Archaeology and closing the software lifecycle■ Discuss some of the available methodologies■ Show how to rediscover your architecture with a sample application4 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 5.
Agenda■ The Software Lifecycle■ Software Archaeology■ An Introduction to UML■ Digging into applications5 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 6.
The Software Lifecycle “A software development process, also known as a software development life-cycle (SDLC), is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. Similar terms include software life cycle and software process. It is often considered a subset of systems development life cycle” - Wikipedia■ Should be a closed loop, iterative process■ Design should relate to Requirements■ Implementation should relate to Design■ Even as the application evolves6 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 7.
The Waterfall Model■ Not uncommon for applications to be more like the waterfall model■ Software lifecycle becomes linear...■ Changes needed between: – Requirements and Design – Design and Implementation … and as a result of maintenance become lost■ Result is that deployments do not reflect their original designs7 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 8.
Legacy Systems and Code■ Old applications or code that have been inherited■ Typically in maintenance, and providing a valuable function■ However it often provides challenges: – Maintenance cost is usually high • Outside of normal vendor support – Little or no requirement and design documentation • Potentially even without source code for some parts!8 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 9.
Software Archaeology “..the study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of software maintenance. .. includes the reverse engineering of software modules, and the application of a variety of tools and processes for extracting and understanding program structure and recovering design information. .. may reveal dysfunctional team processes which have produced poorly designed or even unused software modules.” - Wikipedia■ Software archaeology makes it possible to build designs from legacy systems and code9 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 10.
An Introduction to Unified Modelling Language (UML) “...a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group. ...offers a standard way to visualize a systems architectural blueprints” - Wikipedia■ A unified standard modelling notation■ Allows the creation of structure and design plans■ UML provides two categories of diagram: – Behaviour Diagrams: show the dynamic behaviour between the elements of the system – Structural Diagrams: show the static structure of the system being modelled10 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 11.
UML Behaviour Diagrams■ Use-case diagram – used to visualize the functional requirements of a system – shows the relationship of "actors" to essential processes – often used to show the relationship between use cases11 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 12.
UML Behaviour Diagrams■ Activity Diagram – Shows flow of control during an activity – Best used to model to model higher-level processes – “Less technical" than sequence diagrams12 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 13.
UML Behaviour Diagrams■ Statechart Diagram – Shows the different states that a class can be in – Shows the transitions from state to state – Usually only covers "interesting" classes13 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 14.
UML Behaviour Diagrams■ Sequence Diagram – Shows the interactions between objects in the sequential order that those interactions occur – Applied to code objects, but can be applied to business objects. – Can be used for communication between teams or organisations14 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 15.
UML Structural Diagrams■ Deployment Diagram – Shows how a system will be physically deployed in the hardware environment – Shows where the different entities of the system will physically run – Shows how they will communicate with each other – Models the physical deployment15 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 16.
UML Structural Diagrams■ Component Diagram – Shows the dependencies that the software has on the other software components – Usually shown at a high level with large-grain components – Or at the component package level16 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 17.
UML Structural Diagrams■ Class diagrams – Shows the static structures of the system, generally implementation classes – Shows how the different entities relate to each other■ Object Diagrams: – Show a complete or partial view of the structure at a specific time. – Focus on a set of object instances and attributes, and the links between the instances – More concrete than class diagrams – Often used to provide examples, or act as test cases for the class diagrams17 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 18.
Software Archaeology: Methodologies■ Various methods exist for Software Archaeology, including: – Static analysis • Analysis of source code by tooling or by hand – Trace based analysis • Injecting trace into running application – Debugger based analysis • Stepping through code under a debugger18 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 19.
Digging into a Simple Application■ A simple application: “JavaGrep”■ Usage: JavaGrep <pattern> <list of files>■ Where: – Pattern is a search term – List of files is one of more files to search19 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 20.
Digging into a Simple Application■ JavaGrep.java: Compile regexp Add files to fileList Create FileScanner scan() Get matching lines Print matching lines For Each File Print summary20 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 21.
Digging into a Simple Application■ FileScanner.java: Create LineNumberReader Get Line For Each Check for match Line Add to matchLines21 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 22.
Digging into a Simple Application Run regexp matcher against line Get ArrayList of matching lines Get scanned line count Get matched line count22 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 23.
Understanding the code behaviour■ Dynamic behaviour at code level is the method call graph – Interaction between classes and objects – Sequence of methods called and returned■ Best fit in UML is the sequence diagram23 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 24.
Generating a sequence diagram■ Static Analysis – Limited tooling exists – Really needs to be done manually■ Runtime Analysis – Activate tracing mechanism(s) – Run the application • Code coverage testing • QA or Performance Testing • Production!24 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 25.
Generated Sequence Diagram: Static Analysis■ Static Analysis Results: – Requires reading of the code! – Accurate diagram – Limited to available source • JavaGrep • FileScanner – Possible to include other calls • Limited to single extra call25 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 26.
Runtime Analysis: Profiling Output■ Profiling output: – Full graph of all running methods – Access to call frequency/cost information – Requires methods to be run... – No call ordering or count data26 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 27.
Runtime Analysis: Profiling Output■ Digging into FileScanner.scan(): – FileScanner.scanLine() – LineNumberReader.readLine() – StringBuilder.append() – ArrayList.<init>() – StringBuilder.append() – ArrayList.add()27 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 28.
Generated Sequence Diagram: Runtime Analysis■ Profiling Analysis: – Scope to cover all code – No ordering information – No call count information28 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 29.
Runtime Analysis: Limited tracing to add order and count information14:38:09.260*0x6db300 mt.3 > JavaGrep.<clinit>()V Bytecode static method14:38:09.260 0x6db300 mt.9 < JavaGrep.<clinit>()V14:38:09.260 0x6db300 mt.3 > JavaGrep.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V14:38:09.281 0x6db300 mt.0 > FileScanner.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/regex/Pattern;)V14:38:09.283 0x6db300 mt.6 < FileScanner.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/regex/Pattern;)V14:38:09.283 0x6db300 mt.0 > FileScanner.scan()I14:38:09.292 0x6db300 mt.0 > FileScanner.scanLine(Ljava/lang/String;)............ ........ .... .....14:38:09.296 0x6db300 mt.6 < FileScanner.scanLine(Ljava/lang/String;)Z14:38:09.296 0x6db300 mt.6 < FileScanner.scan()I14:38:09.296 0x6db300 mt.0 > FileScanner.getMatchLines()Ljava/util/ArrayList;14:38:09.296 0x6db300 mt.6 < FileScanner.getMatchLines()Ljava/util/ArrayList;14:38:09.296 0x6db300 mt.0 > FileScanner.getMatchCount()I14:38:09.296 0x6db300 mt.6 < FileScanner.getMatchCount()I14:38:09.297 0x6db300 mt.0 > FileScanner.getMatchCount()I14:38:09.297 0x6db300 mt.6 < FileScanner.getMatchCount()I14:38:09.297 0x6db300 mt.0 > FileScanner.getLineCount()I14:38:09.297 0x6db300 mt.6 < FileScanner.getLineCount()I14:38:09.297 0x6db300 mt.9 < JavaGrep.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V■ Order is: scan() -> getMatchedLines() -> getMatchCount() -> getMatchCount() -> getLineCount()29 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 30.
Generated Sequence Diagram: Runtime Analysis■ Runtime Analysis: – Scope to cover all code – Ordering information included – Call count information included – Only covers executed code*30 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 31.
Understanding the structure■ Structure at code level is the object graph – Interaction between classes and objects – References between object on the Java heap■ Best fit in UML is the class and/or objectdiagram31 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 32.
Generating a Class or Object Diagram■ Static Analysis – Provide tool with access to necessary source – Run analysis!■ Runtime Analysis – Run the application • Code coverage testing • QA or Performance Testing • Production! – Generate a system or heap dump32 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 33.
Generated Class Diagram: Static Analysis■ Static Analysis Results: – Accurate diagram – Limited to available source33 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 34.
Runtime Analysis: System Dump Information■ JavaGrep: – Static attributes: • matchString java.util.String “for” • fileList java.util.ArrayList size is 1, one entry: “..srcJavaGrep” • _pattern java.util.regex.Pattern “sfors” compiled = true34 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 35.
Runtime Analysis: System Dump Information■ FileList java.uti..ArrayList: – Instance attributes: • ElementData java.lang.Object[10] single entry of “..srcJavaGrep.java” • size int 1 • modCount int 135 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 36.
Runtime Analysis: System Dump Information■ FileScanner – Object instance attributes: • _fileName java.lang.String “..srcJavaGrep.java” • _fReader java.io.LineNumberReader object @ 0x228165e0 • _pattern java.lang.String “sfors” compiled = true • _matchLines java.util.ArrayList object @ 0x22864410 • _matchCount int 4 • _lineCount int 4136 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 37.
Generated Class Diagram: Runtime Analysis■ Runtime Analysis Results: – The same accurate diagram – Methods could be added from sequence diagram – Scope to add further classes/objects37 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 38.
Digging into Something More Complex...■ Apache Tomcat 7.0.27■ org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main() – init() – load() – start()■ Uses reflection to call: – org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.*38 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 39.
Digging into Something More Complex....39 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 40.
Digging into Something More Complex....■ Digging into “server”:40 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 41.
Summary■ Its possible to use static and/or runtime tooling to understand an application■ Allows you to close the development lifecycle – even for legacy and 3rd party code■ Allows you to migrate legacy systems where original requirements are lost – Definition of existing system as source of requirements for new implementation■ Allows you to debug problems – difference between design and implementation may well be your issue41 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 42.
References■ Get Products and Technologies: – IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java: • https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/tools/■ Learn: – Health Center InfoCenter: • http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/hctool/v1r0/index.jsp■ Discuss: – IBM on Troubleshooting Java Applications Blog: • https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/troubleshootingjava/ – Health Center Forum: • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1461 – IBM Java Runtimes and SDKs Forum: • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=367&start=042 Rediscovering Your Architecture: With Software Archaeology © 2012 IBM Corporation 43.
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Re: Guilty Pleasure Hey, if they could get Neil Diamond to write their biggest "hit" (Last Train to Clarksville), who are we to laugh? Reply to this post
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Re: Guilty Pleasure No to memtion "Hey hey we're the Monkees" and "I'm a Believer"...
and btw, Neil Diamond is my "guilty pleasure", but i'm not sure I would even list it as guilty.
I say this without the slightest trace of "wink-wink" or even "nudge-nudge"---- HOT AUGUST NIGHT is one of THE greatest live rock albums EVER.
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Re: Guilty Pleasure I grew up with my Mom listening to Neil Diamond. His music holds a spot in my heart and on my iPod. If you get a chance check out Super Diamond. He is to Neil Diamond what Dark Star Orchestra is to the Dead. Puts on a great performance. Took my Mom to a Super Diamond show a couple years ago and she loved it...that was the true test.
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ISBN-13: 004-6442130066
ISBN-10: 0618130063
Have you ever wanted to gain linguistic immortality by making up a word? Many people have coined new words  famous people like Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Dr. Seuss, along with many lesser-knowns. But many more have put forward new words that failed. Why are some new words adopted while others are ignored? Allan Metcalf explores this question in his fascinating survey of new-word creation in English. By examining past new-word contenders, Metcalf discerns lessons for linguistic longevity. For instance, he shows us why the humorist Gelett Burgess gave us the words blurb and bromide but failed to win anyone over with bleesh and diabob. Metcalf examines words invented for political and social reasons (African American, pro-life), words coined in books (edge city, the Peter principle), brand names and the words derived from them (aspirin, Ping-Pong), and words that started as jokes (big bang, couch potato). On the basis of this research, he develops a scale  the FUDGE scale  for predicting the success of newly coined words. The FUDGE scale has five factors: Frequency of use, Unobtrusiveness, Diversity of users and situations, Generation of other forms and meanings, and Endurance of the concept. By judging how an emerging new word rates for each FUDGE factor, Metcalf is able to predict which words will take root in the English lexicon and which words will dry up and blow away. In this highly original work, Metcalf shows us how to spin syllabic straw into linguistic gold.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 21, 2002)
ISBN-13: 978-0618130061
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,313,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
In 1990, Metcalf (How We Talk: American Regional English Today), executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, had the idea that the ADS should choose an annual New Word of the Year. That year, the winner was the shortlived bushlips ("insincere political rhetoric"). Some of the ADS's other choices fell into obscurity just as quickly, prompting Metcalf to write this entertaining investigation of which new words have staying power, and why. He discusses winners (1941's teenager) and losers (1995's schmoozeoisie, "a class of people who earn their living by talk"); reveals the forgotten jokes behind familiar terms like couch potato and gerrymander; and shows that the success of a word has little to do with whether or not it fills a gap in the English language. Metcalf also describes his system for predicting the success of au courant words (he gives weapons-grade high marks for endurance, while consigning quarterlife crisis to the ash heap). Edifying and humorous, this little book is irresistible fun.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The author's How We Talk: American Regional English Today (2000) was written mainly for writers and people whose interest in the language is of a rather scholarly nature. This new book, on the other hand, has something for everyone. In lively, entertaining prose, it traces the origins of a dazzling array of words and phrases: Marlboro Man, Frankenfood, blurb, skycap, quark, scofflaw (there was a contest to coin this useful word). It also introduces us to a fascinating array of would-be words, coinages that never quite caught on (linner, for example, was intended to designate the meal between lunch and dinner). The author, the executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, offers tips on creating a new word: make it something whose meaning is self-evident, introduce it subtly, and keep using it. The book is jam-packed with treats for word lovers, and it blows the lid off some common myths. Shakespeare, for example, might not have invented a lot of the words he's credited with. A must-read for word buffs. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
3 of 3 people found the following review helpfulWord Up!
By Bill MarsanoTake heed: This enjoyable and informative book is those who love words and ingenuity; all others stay clear. Author Allan Metcalf, professor of English and executive secretary of the American Dialect Society proposed in 1990 that--just as Time magazine had its Man of the Year--the ADS shouldelect a New Word of the Year. Done and done! This book looks at the winners (and many others) and what became of them; it encourages readers to create new words of theirown devising and suggests criteria for success.And success has been mixed, not only for ADS honorees but for other new words (officially called 'neologisms'). For example, my own creations. I produced "oldveau riche" a dozen years ago, but seldom have opportunity to use it. Currently I'm struggling to popularize "e-dress," which is certainly more efficient than "e-mail address." The first ADS winner,"bushlips" (for insincere political rhetoric), stemmed promisingly from President George W. Bush's "Read my lips: No new taxes," but, like Bush's promise, it went nowhere. "Frankenfood," a recent American coinage forgenetically modified food, is popular only in Britain. "Scofflaw," Metcalf says, was selected in 1923 from 25,000 contest entries. It's used for people who ignore parking tickets but was created specifically for illegaldrinkers during Prohibition, and it was thought to carry such a sting that it would shame them into reform. Fat chance!Metcalf discusses other semi-successes. Gelett Burgess invented the very useful 'blurb' and 'bromide,' but their <meanings> were supplied by others. Lewis Carroll invented lots of neologisms that remain pleasing (e.g., "'twas brillig, and the slithy toves, did gyre and gimble in the wabe . . . .") but are so obscure no one uses them.Read more ›
2 of 2 people found the following review helpfulNew Words and Their FUDGE Factors
HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on December 24, 2002Format: Hardcover
If you feel yourself just one person in a sea of humanity who will be unremembered by future generations (and most of us are indeed going to be forgotten), and you'd like to claim just a little bit of immortality, you might coin a word that gets used by lots of people and then enters the dictionaries. That's what Paul Lewis did. He's a humorist and English professor, and his new word is one of the many reported in _Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success_ (Houghton Mifflin), an amusing new way to look at new words by Allan Metcalf. Every dictionary which lists Lewis's coinage "frankenfood" and goes to any detail on its etymology will have to list him as the inventor (author?) of the word. "Frankenfood," meaning genetically modified comestibles, is a clever, funny new word. It gets its point across clearly, and will probably be around as long as genetically modified food itself is. Score a big one for professor Lewis, but beware: he has subsequently tried coining other new words, some of them seemingly clever and useful, but none of them have caught on. Metcalf's book tries to show why some new words catch on and why some don't, and how to make predictions. Maybe his prediction system is quite good; we will have to wait a couple of generations to see what words stick or fall away as it predicts, but even so, this is a fascinating look at how words come into being.It is surprising that so many new words are created every day. You might even make a few yourself, like President Bush does; he comes up with words like "misunderestimate" rather frequently, but it isn't surprising that a lot of other people have come up with that one, all on their own, too. Often people perceive a need for a word and want to invent one to fill that need. This seldom works to make a lasting word.Read more ›
2 of 2 people found the following review helpfulThey have a word for it...
Why do some coined words catch on and others not? Why do some catch on quickly and others burn out equally quickly? As someone who works with word puzzles, I was intrigued by these questions: we like to keep puzzle vocabulary up-to-date, but at the same time make sure that our entries are generally known so as not to frustrate the solver, not always an easy task.Metcalf presents a well-written, jargon-free analysis of his theories on this, including a historical perspective. I found it fascinating, and my copy has already started circulating amongst my coworkers.
Want to make your mark on the world? Coin a new word. Just follow the rules set down by Allan Metcalf in Predicting New Words and you'll be well on your way. Along the way, he discusses the origins of newish words and phrases like "notebook PC" and "weapons-grade" signifying anything of as well as tried and true ones like "OK" and "moonlighting," examining them and coming to conclusions about what makes a word gain universal acceptance.Predicting New Words is a fun read for those who are interested in words and their history (as well as their future). Metcalf's prose style is simple and easy to read and his transitions are smooth, making each dissection blend into the next. He goes into what is likely to make a word accepted and discusses how some words simply ache to be coined because they keep cropping up in separate instances over time by people who were unaware that anyone else had ever used the word before.In the back of the book is an appendix listing the Words of the Year as chosen by the American Dialect Society, along with descriptions as to what makes them special. Words like "Y2K," the "e-" prefix regarding the Internet, "9-11" as signifying the events of September 11, 2002; all of these have been chosen as Words of the Year for their prevalence and usefulness.Metcalf also proposes some words that are floating around now and puts them to the test using his "FUDGE factor" to decide whether they will be around in 40 years. All in all, Predicting New Words in an insightful and engrossing read, and I recommend it to anyone who gets a kick out of words.
Our Word Future?
Allan Metcalf's Predicting New Words is a very good book on how new words enter our language. Metcalf's emphasis is on why some new words make it and other new words die soon...
Published on October 4, 2003 by Bruce Crocker
I picked up this book after reading about it in the Atlantic Monthly's "Word Fugitives" column, I'd used Metcalf's last book, HOW WE TALK, in a school project a few years...
Wonderful book which all will enjoy!
Allan Metcalf has done American culture a great service by writing this book! What a great joy to read.