January 2011
4 posts
Development Chaos Theory » Blog Archive » How...
But the future never gets easier, does it? Because a year from now they wade through all this excess baggage written at a time when they thought they understood the domain of the problem (but clearly didn’t), instead of having simple code (like the very first example of factorial above) that they can revise as needed, they wind up with the most over-engineered pile of nonsense that no-one can...
Using Git for "Feature branch code reviews" -...
I’ll be honest, I never really felt engaged during “code review” meetings at the end of an iteration. It always took too long to get and discuss the code. The room would get warmer. We’d discover things we’d want to change. Many of those changes would never be made. Since today is Boycott a Meeting Day, I thought I’d offer an alternative we’ve used lately.via robots.thoughtbot.com Posted...
ActiveMQ Apollo - Wicked fast
ActiveMQ Apollo is a new generation of messaging broker built from the foundations of the ActiveMQ messaging broker, but using a radically different threading and message dispatching architecture. http://hiramchirino.com/blog/2011/01/activemq-apollo-looking-impressive/ Posted via email from jboyens’ posterous | Comment »
StringSearch – high-performance pattern matching...
StringSearch High-performance pattern matching algorithms in Java The Java language lacks fast string searching algorithms. StringSearch provides implementations of the Boyer-Moore and the Shift-Or (bit-parallel) algorithms. These algorithms are easily five to ten times faster than the naïve implementation found in java.lang.String. via johannburkard.de Posted via email from...
June 2009
2 posts
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny -...
via youtube.com Very awesome stage fight sequence. Posted via web from jboyens’s posterous | Comment »
Change a .classpath linked to an IDEA project and...
In IntelliJ IDEA, when you update a .classpath file externally IDEA pops up dialog that complains and tells you that you need to reload the project. I think they’ve fixed this in 8.x for .iml files, but not for linked Eclipse .classpath files. When I’m running 2 apps under the debugger I don’t want to lose all that and start over just because I screwed up a dependency. It’s...
May 2009
1 post
Cute photo of Laila
A cute photo of my daughter Laila hanging out this past Memorial Day weekend. Posted via email from jboyens’s posterous | Comment »
April 2009
1 post
Hello
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February 2009
1 post
Dirty Jobs - Discomfort →
A great little video (20 min) about Mike Rowe’s experiences and what he’s learned
January 2009
1 post
Al Jazeera English - War on Gaza - Gaza diary: Are... →
A letter from a father under attack in Gaza City
December 2008
3 posts
“Mencken on an defining an idealist “A man who, on noticing a rose smells...”
– https://twitter.com/mcannonbrookes/statuses/1085499107
Free Public WiFi →
Have you ever seen an ad-hoc network named “Free Public Wifi”? I see it all over the place, especially at airpoirts? It’s not a virus. An interesting tale…
“A company of programmers produces code. A company of managers produces meetings.”
– Twitter / Greg Knauss
November 2008
4 posts
multithreadedtc - Google Code →
“The MultithreadedTC framework was created to make it easier to test small concurrent abstractions. It enables test designers to guarantee a specific interleaving of two or more threads, even in the presence of blocking and timing issues.”
checked-uncontended-lock - Google Code →
“These locks are designed to be used for debugging purposes. If you have an object which you believe doesn’t need locking, you can wrap it with a checked uncontended lock.”
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use...”
– Jamie Zawinski
October 2008
9 posts
CoRD: Remote Desktop for Mac OS X →
ANSI Color logging with Log4j →
20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know →
Stainless - Chrome-a-like for Mac OS X →
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher whose hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid for the vice presidency. The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin’s a Post Turtle”. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a...
MailFollowup →
Allows you to compose (and then send) a quoted version of the original message to all of the original recipients, keeping the To, Cc and Bcc addresses exactly as they appeared in the original message. For Mail.app.
September 2008
5 posts
“My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight...”
– Kodos gives a speech, “Treehouse of Horror VII”
“On the internet, no-one knows you’re 14 year old or a raccoon. Until they...”
– elliotth’s blog: Desktop Linux suckage: a quick exercise
EFiX Dongle Perfectly Transforms PC to Mac →
macwidgets - Google Code →
Java widgets that look like Mac OS X widgets
Cappuccino Web Framework →
Pretty cool web framework and new Objective-J language built on JS
August 2008
2 posts
Mythbusters Paint Mona Lisa With 1100 Barrel Paint... →
“Look: both of our time is valuable; I will make time for you, but never for a...”
– Merlin Mann
July 2008
3 posts
“The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will...”
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ →
Custom human built mixtapes →
April 2008
7 posts
Would've saved me DAYS...
Just in case you didn’t know, Maven supports <modules> in a <profile>.
Review of "The Outside" →
The Filter - Excellent playlist builder for iTunes →
Penny Arcade's indie distribution site... →
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
