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I’m off to San Francisco this weekend, we be at JavaOne again this year. Remember to come say “hi”, especially if you want a peek at Crucible. Unlike last year, we won’t be in the t-shirt hurling competition. Which is a shame considering that the Myth Buster boys will be doing some commentary this year. Last year we managed [...]

Slightly more worrying than the previous moment, here is another quiet moment of project-size zen. [javac] Compiling 666 source files to /home/matt/work/crucible/trunk/output/classes

spud: On Spring: http://crazybob.org/2006/01/i-dont-get-spring.html conor: java development is so faddish spud: as opposed to… ruby? conor: ruby is a java fad

Some questions just cannot go unanswered. http://www.cenqua.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1877.

So, I’ve finally got around to making another animation. Enjoy. Things mentioned in the show: Artima.com podcast with Gavin King. Link Sun ad campaign story. Link Oh, and yes I do know I am speaking too fast in some parts. But you get that (i.e. I’m not fixing it). For those that are curious, the phrase in the opening paragraph [...]

I love IDEA’s Live Templates, and I often find myself using java.util.BitSet. The BitSet javadoc describes a neat way of iterating through the 1 bits, and I do this often enough that it warranted a custom Live Template. Now all I need to do is hit itbs<TAB> to have this code automagically appear. The template looks like this: for(int $INDEX$ = $BS$.nextSetBit(0); [...]

spuddy: O…M…G… the download for IBM/Rational RAD 6.0 (based on eclipse) is 1.4GB bph: what the fucking fuck spuddy: I think it includes websphere or some thing bph: it would wanna have some kick ass easter eggs at that size. like a MMOG or something

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been insanely busy; here is the quick update, in close-to chronological order: Our t-shirt hurling machine finally cleared customs, and we spent about 16 hours on the weekend re-assembling it and trying to get it to work again. Monday was 8 hours on my feet in the Cenqua booth (booth 417, drop by today if [...]