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Archive for 2006
Don’t be fooled by javac -target 1.4
# 2006-09-15 11:43:52 -0400 | General / Java | 2 CommentsIn the last couple of weeks, I’ve been pinged a few times by cow orkers in the FishEye development team who were complaining about a mysterious JDK1.5 dependency in our code. Their development builds were breaking on a JDK1.4 JVM with an error like: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.StringBuffer.append(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)Ljava/lang/StringBuffer; The sweat started pouring the first time I got that complaint; [...]
His Noodly Appendage
# 2006-08-02 17:04:10 -0400 | General | Comments OffLike shaved Parmesan over a spicy meat sauce, I stay on top of the antics of non-believers at FSM HateMail. And although I am but a midget in the FSM’s grand plans, Pastafarian know that we are all His creatures, and that He touches us with His Noodly Appendage. And lo, today I saw proof! While reading this entry at FSM HateMail, [...]
Gartner: equal opportunity employer
# 2006-07-10 13:26:34 -0400 | General / Java | 1 CommentWhile reading the computer section of today’s Canberra Times (10 July 2006, page 14), I spotted this little gem. The talent pool in Canberra must be drying up and we are now importing aliens. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Hopefully they will turn up the the next CJUG meeting. Lets all welcome @^qebdafkb G^hqj ^k [...]
Cafe web-two-oh/lame nerds/I’m blogging this
# 2006-05-20 07:58:07 -0400 | General | No CommentsIt’s our last day in San Fran, and Terence took us for a nice little tour of the city. If nothing else it was noteworthy because we were finally showed were we could get some good coffee. We are now sitting in Ritual Coffee Roasters (or “Cafe Web two dot oh” as Terence calls it). Great coffee, [...]
JavaOne day 2 and 3: the booth and me
# 2006-05-19 16:21:52 -0400 | General / Java | No CommentsThe last two days at JavaOne have been hectic. Tech Sessions I managed to get to two Technical Sessions this year (up from one last year). The first was a talk about scaling applications using a shared heap, by Ari Zilka of Terracotta. There were some interesting ideas in there, so afterwards I went to talk to some of [...]
JavaOne day one: spilt beer
# 2006-05-17 17:44:01 -0400 | General / Java | 2 CommentsSo considering the last two days, I began today with much trepidation. But luckily the day in the booth went very well (our monitors turned up earlier this morning). Okay, it went well until Pete spilt beer over one of our keyboards; but that was at the end of the day, so I don’t count that as a [...]
