48 hours after the last aborted attempt at reaching JavaOne, we are in SF and have our conference passes. But oh no, it could not be that simple. We get to our hotel by about 4pm, and we need to have the booth ready by 11am tomorrow. And UA lost our fucking Apple Cinema Displays [...]
Category Archives: Java
JavaOne day -1 : Bird Strike
May 14, 2006 – 5:49 pm
The plan was to fly out from Sydney to San Francisco today. The plane was fueled, the travelers boarded. The aircraft taxied out to the runway, takeoff speed was reached, and the front wheel may have even left the tarmac. Then some bloody bird flew straight into engine two, the pilots hit the breaks, and [...]
Heading to JavaOne again
May 10, 2006 – 3:16 pm
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. [...]
Another quiet moment of project-size zen.
May 9, 2006 – 10:55 pm
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
X is a Java fad
February 1, 2006 – 8:59 am
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
Tea in china? n00bs in India? Namespaces in .NET?
October 13, 2005 – 11:21 am
Some questions just cannot go unanswered. http://www.cenqua.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1877.
The Spuddy Show
September 26, 2005 – 3:51 pm
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 [...]
An IDEA Live Template for iterating through a BitSet
August 30, 2005 – 10:10 pm
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 [...]
Today at the virtual water cooler
August 18, 2005 – 4:57 pm
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
Storing page-state in the session is evil / Spammer for a day
July 13, 2005 – 5:18 pm
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 [...]
