Java annoyance: final parameters

August 26, 2008

The final word on the final keyword when used with Java method parameters.

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Java: not all that bad these days

August 26, 2008

I quite like Java as of Java SE 5. However…

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The dark romance of computer science

August 22, 2008

From Amazon.com’s page for Discrete Mathematical Structures for Computer Science by Kolman and Busby:
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And the review… Yeah, it’s not a book for beginning programmers.

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Looking for debug information in all the wrong places

August 11, 2008

Problems with SSL connections to Domino caused by a bad /etc/hosts entry.

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JavaScript: The Good Parts

August 9, 2008

A review of O’Reilly’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” by Douglas Crockford

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It’s all about solving problems

August 1, 2008

Back in the 1960s, IBM observed that a lot of business time was spent retyping documents. A lot of business documents needed fairly frequent changes. While handwriting could be used for minor annotations, eventually the changes would need to be made in the typed version. This would require that a secretary re-type at least an [...]

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