Chronological pitfalls

Since the US just changed time zone, and the EU will be changing time zone soon, it seems like a good time to refresh an old posting of mine about dates and times, and how hard it can be to do the right things with them in software....

2009-03-16 · 7 min

Bitten by the specialness of Java arrays

Suppose you have some text in Java that you want to manipulate....

2009-02-18 · 1 min

Getting IPv6 enabled

I’m not usually someone who likes to live on the bleeding edge of technology, but I decided that this year I wanted to get enabled for IPv6....

2009-01-20 · 4 min

Java annoyance: final parameters

First, the summary:...

2008-08-26 · 5 min

SI unit prefixes: a plea for sanity

Computer programmers can skip to the next sub-heading....

2008-07-15 · 5 min