Category Archives: Java

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toronto democamp

Posted on 2/7/2007 by Blaine

monday night i attended toronto democamp 12. i was at democamp 2, a year ago but couldn’t never make the others since they were on tuesday and i had conflicts with other activities. this one was on a monday so … Continue reading →

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ps3 shopping is dangerous business

Posted on 11/26/2006 by Blaine

buy a shirt – $18 with all the dangerous stories [video] of people trying to buy playstation 3 machines, be sure to show your friends you were brave enough to line up and face the crowds. buy a shirt to … Continue reading →

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A useful Hungarian Notation

Posted on 5/20/2005 by Blaine

I just finished reading Joel On Software’s latest essay on Making Wrong Code Look Wrong and it actually presents a good case for using Hungarian Notation.

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Free Sun Java Developer Days in Toronto

Posted on 5/6/2005 by Blaine

I wonder if I could go to this instead of being at the office: Code Maneuvers 05, is a series of Developer Days, hosted by Sun Microsystems, that combine tactical developer insights with practical programming execution, to provide vision, direction … Continue reading →

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Which Java MVC Framework to use?

Posted on 4/5/2005 by Blaine

I’ve got an idea for a web application I want to prototype and I was originally going to try to whip it up in Ruby on Rails (oh no! another convert!) but then I remembered I don’t know RoR yet … Continue reading →

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Informa API Summary

Posted on 2/25/2005 by Blaine

I’ve been looking through the Informa API recently for RSS work in Java and making some rough notes in hopes of understanding the classes (some are interfaces, but I list them in general as implementations). I haven’t listed all classes, … Continue reading →

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Don’t use null or -1 in your unwritten methods

Posted on 1/20/2005 by Blaine

Doesn’t feel quite this bad. Tim Bray’s error in unit testing gives a great suggestion on a better way to test, rather than putting return null; and return -1; in your empty uncompleted methods. Instead, throw an exception: throw new … Continue reading →

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Debugging Resin in Idea 4.5

Posted on 12/3/2004 by Blaine

Working on a webapp at work, I decided to check if anyone has successfully figured out how to debug Resin apps within Idea 4.5. In the past, I’ve tried the Resin plugin from Intellij.org, but it’s very old and beta … Continue reading →

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