Archive for 2003

‘javadoc’ for tag libs (and other CoolStuff at developer.sun.com)

# 2003-07-02 01:58:46 -0400 | Java | No Comments

Sometimes I feel I just can’t keep up with all the things that are going on with Java. Okay, I know I can’t keep up with it. Like today, I found this Cool Stuff page at Sun (has a ’shaking’ logo and all) (via this post to sjug-announce). TLDDoc: Javadoc for your taglibs. (I once wrote an in-house Doclet that does [...]

ICFP Programming Contest: done and done

# 2003-06-30 23:58:36 -0400 | Java | No Comments

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 [...]

Status: busily coding my ICFP Programming Contest entry

# 2003-06-28 09:59:36 -0400 | Java | 1 Comment

I’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 Comment

Capping off the week.

Tip: Clustering and your Servlet application

# 2003-06-27 08:58:17 -0400 | Java | 3 Comments

If you write Servlet applications, read on…

‘Varience’ is out of Generics in Tiger

# 2003-06-26 17:47:39 -0400 | Java | No Comments

According 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 Comments

Saw 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 Comments

Jeremy’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 Comments

Dave 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 Comment

Just a bit of fun for a Friday.