Beg at google's front door
Google really did it now. Recently the phenomena of google suggest has poked its little face around the corner. I must say, its pretty funky. For the people who are not familiar with google suggest,...
View ArticleThe Ant and the BeeHive
When the Ant 'Lucene' woke up from his wintersleep in Rome he noticed the Struts of his Cocoon had hold. Sleepy he though 'Groovy, but after a Hibernate you really needed a good Expresso'. He removed...
View ArticleYuck, I'm ill
Tomorrow morning we're supposed to catch the plane to Florence, for a holiday, but it seems that I got some kind illness. I hope it passes. Gee, I feel drowsy.
View ArticleBack from florence
Well, back from the vacation in florence. Unfortuantly I was ill most of the time. Anyway, Blessed Christmas everyone! I'll have something more interesting after Christmas.
View ArticleEnglish, and the rest of the languages
Really, nothing is as badly supported in the programming world as Internationalization. Okay, okay, you could say that it is, after all the SUN got a snif with their ResourceBundle and Locale, and...
View ArticleIt might not brake, but it sure can drive
Its terrible, but I will have to admit it. No matter how much quality your software has, your neighbour amateur VB.net prgrammer who never heard of database normalisation or model 2 can write better...
View ArticleToo much!
There really are too many wheels in the Java world... all almost the same, but not quite. Thats good because it gives you a choice, its bad because it takes so much time to dig into all those...
View ArticleJava Stupidity Parser
I'm proposing building a pre-parser that checks for stupidity in code. Sometimes I'm so blind for those little things, which take hours of bug tracking only to find out you did a very little and...
View ArticleStupidity Parser part 2
People generally don't read, appertly. The example I showed in my last blog was an example of the things most bug-finders do find, and not an example of the stupidities I do in my code. Please, people,...
View Articleuh backup please!?
It happend My little-bit-more-than-one-year-old MAXTOR 120 GB SATA 7200rpm drive gave the spirit... with one last shove through the first sectors of my harddrive it corrupted the filesystem. The next...
View ArticleInfinite patterns of repetition
I've been experimenting with fractals a bit. For you who don't know, a fractal is usually a graphic that is repreated in itself. Click here to learn more and here. Now I am no mathamatician or...
View ArticleThey're not comming
Well, I guess its time to face it. No more Kings Quest, no more Space Quest, no more Monkey Island. My favorite games are dead. I don't really care much for 3D shooters, 3D platform or race games......
View ArticleFree will(y)
Now that I think about it, maybe that movie 'free willy' was indeed about free will.. hmm.. funny... Anyway, I'm not here to talk about the movie. A couple of months ago I saw this documentery on TV...
View ArticleCool but useless
Hehe.... Its so funny... how reality differs from TV. Ever watched the movie 'hackers'... or an episode of CSI. My computer doesn't do all the funky stuff those computers do to display information....
View ArticleAre JavaBeans really that good
Sometimes I really wonder whether JavaBeans as business objects are really such a good idea. Ofcourse, they have proven themselves to be a flexible and robust solutions for larger enterprise...
View ArticleToo much features?
Can a programming language have too much features? Lately in Java (1.)5 new features have been added to the language, like enums, generics and annotations, which are all nice additions, but does it...
View ArticleThe unknown against-force
Gee, do you sometimes feel like me, that there is something that needs to be done, and it just doesn't want to be done. Its like some unknown force is attempting to sabotage your attempts to do so....
View ArticleAbusing Java for debugging purposes!
How would you like to be able to produce verbose debugging output without more than a few keystrokes, without the need to add a logging class to each and every class? Just let the logger figure out...
View ArticleSpeeding up slow collections with mightContain
Sometimes you need to see whether on object is contained within a very slow collection (for look-up operations) like LinkedList and ArrayList. There is an easy way to create class that can tell...
View ArticleA typical morning (useless)
while (!alarm.buzzing()) { developer.sleep(); } developer.wakeUp(); if (!developer.wife().isAwake()) { developer.wake(developer.wife()); } TeaGlass[] glasses = developer.makeTea(2,...
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