madbean

This is a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of storing UI state in the session of a webapp. Very occasionally we have a need to send out a bulk email to a bunch of people. For example: we had several hundred requests expressing genuine interest in The Commentator, one of our April Fools jokes this year, and we sent [...]

In 1996, I completed an honours year attached to my Comp. Sci. This involved a thesis, in which I choose to investigate a certain optimization technique in computer graphics. The impressive title of my thesis was: Space-time ray-tracing using ray-classification. I occasionally get the odd email about it, and the ftp server at Macquarie Uni that [...]

As amateur foodies, one of our goals during our trip to JavaOne this year was to sample the fine cuisine San Francisco had to offer. Our initial strategy was acknowledged as stupid: leave the hotel without advice and without our travel-guide book, and try to find some good food by wandering around. This returned some mediocre [...]