Bearcave.com: the Bear Products International Home Page

This is the Internet domain of Ian and Linda Kaplan, and Bear Products International. At Bear Products International we specialize in well engineered and extensively documented large scale software projects. These include:

• Financial trading and modeling software

• Compilers and language processors

• Digital Signal Processing Software

These web pages have been growing since 1995, when bearcave.com was first registered. They now cover a variety of topics. A portfolio of work spanning much of Ian's career as a software engineer is showcased here. Other topics of more general interest are included as well. The hyper-linked nature of web pages encourages organic growth. We have tried to tame this growth and fit it into categories, but it always seems that a clearer hierarchy could be built. Look around. We hope that you will find something of interest.

Contents:

• Notes on the process of software creation and software engineering.
  These links include the link to the ANTLR parser generator web pages.

• The Java Web Pages:

  • A Java intra-day trading system, quantitative finance, technical analysis and other topics.
  • Compiling the Java programming language into native microprocessor code.
  • javad: this web page publishes the Java source code for a Java class file disassembler.
  • Miscellaneous Java related topics.

• Topics Related to Compiler Design and Implementation

• C++ Software Source

• Wavelets and Signal Processing

• VLSI Design and Simulation

• Miscellaneous Computer and Non-computer Related Topics

• Tirza As We Remember Her

• Betsy Roeth, Artist
  My mother is an artist in Aptos, California. This is her web page showcasing her art.

• Dogs of the Bearcave

• Book Reviews

• Barcelona

• Italy

• Bearcave Photo Galleries

• The Bearcave Links Page

• Statistics and other damn lies

• Tools used to create this Web page

• Bear Productions International? What kind of name is that?

• Bear Products International, Washington, D.C.

• Ian's Resume

As the site ranking shows, we at bearcave.com are a legend in our own minds. Bearcave.com did not make it into the top 100,000 sites. Examples of other site rankings are the New York Times (in the top 100) and Salon.com, in the top 2,000. Most sites that publish naughty pictures probably beat our ranking too.

For a discussion of why Alexa is meaningless see the Slashdot article by Commander Taco. Taco's point is that only the clueless install something like the Alexa toolbar. In contrast to Google Analytics, which works when ever someone hits a marked page, or statistics generated from web server logs, Alexa requires software to be installed on the user computer.