Okay, its over. It was actually quite fun, especially since I wrote a GUI and could see my car racing around the tracks. I spend 10am Saturday to 3am Sunday morning (Australian EST, GMT+1000) working on my “lightning” entry (the first 24 hours constitutes a “lightning” division). I then spent about 7 hours on Sunday rounding out my main [...]
Archive for June, 2003
Status: busily coding my ICFP Programming Contest entry
# 2003-06-28 09:59:36 -0400 | Java | 1 CommentI’m in the middle of attempting the ICFP 2003 programming contest. I’m sure that the problem has a nice numerical-optimisation solution. But I just don’t have the brainspace for that at the moment. So, I’ve got a solution going that involves a user (ie; “me”) ploting a “guide” course around the race track. I couldn’t think of a way to grok [...]
Madcapping: Bragging, communities, ads and Zen
# 2003-06-27 15:48:09 -0400 | General | 1 CommentCapping off the week.
Tip: Clustering and your Servlet application
# 2003-06-27 08:58:17 -0400 | Java | 3 CommentsIf you write Servlet applications, read on…
‘Varience’ is out of Generics in Tiger
# 2003-06-26 17:47:39 -0400 | Java | No CommentsAccording to Neal Gafter’s comment, it looks like the ‘variance’ proposal is not going to be in Tiger (JDK1.5). Based on feedback within Sun, we are unlikely to do this for Tiger. Instead, a “wildcard” syntax is the currently considered extension; which maintains a little bit of the power of variance for those places it is sorely needed (like the [...]
To Adsense, or not.
# 2003-06-26 09:26:33 -0400 | General | 13 CommentsSaw this post by Aaron Swartz, on Google’s Adsense program. It is very tempting to put a google Adsense sidebar on my blog entry pages. Google does a very good of matching my page-content with relevent ads. But I’m not convinced that putting syndicated advertising on a blog is “good style”. It would be nice to earn a little $$$, but [...]
There is no object. There is no null.
# 2003-06-24 13:05:49 -0400 | Java | No CommentsJeremy’s entry
on NullPointerException and pointers reminded me of a discussion
I had while once teaching someone the inner “zen” of Java.
My attempt at Kata Eight
# 2003-06-21 17:42:49 -0400 | Java | No CommentsDave Thomas has issued his eighth kata. These are my notes from doing this kata. If you are interested in doing this kata yourself, it’s best if you do it first.
BileBlog: a bitter alkaline Hani…
# 2003-06-20 15:24:41 -0400 | Java | 1 CommentJust a bit of fun for a Friday.
[updated] Ant compiler adapter for JSR14 and JSR201 (ala the early-access compiler 2.0-ea)
# 2003-06-19 16:56:22 -0400 | Java | 3 CommentsA couple of months ago, I posted an adapter for Ant that allowed you to use your plain-old Ant files to compile Java code using Sun’s early-access compiler.
Well, Sun have released 2.0-ea of that early-access compiler; which adds support for the JSR201 syntactic sugar. It also breaks my compiler adapter, so I’ve had to update it.
