March 31, 2008
The Song that Never Ends
Most companies take great pains to make sure their public-facing statements present the company in the correct light. It's about time lawyers were subject to the same processes.read... (487 words. Posted to nerd at 02:57 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
March 13, 2008
Trivia
The top 20 most listened to theme songs in the last week, as tracked by last.fm.read... (166 words. Posted to personal at 08:05 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
March 12, 2008
Music suggestions, anyone?
Over the last five years or so, my consumption of new music has dropped pretty dramatically. I blame the iPod, which has led me to spend most of my time with my own music collection when I used to listen to the radio and hear new stuff.read... (100 words. Posted to personal at 11:04 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
March 07, 2008
An iPhone SDK Halo Effect?
If the iPhone continues its strong showing in the smart phone market, there's going to be a new demand for iPhone developers in the mobile space. Which means there's going to be a bunch of people learning Cocoa and the Mac OS X APIs who wouldn't otherwise have given them a look.read... (168 words. Posted to nerd at 09:45 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
JSR-666 Extension: Unthrowable Exceptions
This code is the result of two conflicting factors. On one hand, since the constructor in question takes an arbitrary character encoding, the case of the encoding being unavailable must be taken into account. On the other hand, 90% of code that calls this constructor will be explicitly invoking a character set that is required to be provided with the Java Runtime Environment.read... (263 words. Posted to nerd at 09:24 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
March 04, 2008
Java Developers...
A recent post on our internal wiki asked for T-shirt slogans of the style: "Java developers do it with...". I didn't quite stick to the format, but here are my submissions for posterity:read... (177 words. Posted to nerd at 08:58 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
March 03, 2008
Scala is to Java as..
I was reading my preview of the Artima Scala book over the weekend when I had a sudden moment of clarity. Scala is to Java as C++ is to C.read... (314 words. Posted to nerd at 12:09 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)