In case there were any doubts about my driving (ahem, racing!) abilities, these, I’m sure, will settle the matter: in the Cognitive Match California Go-Karting race, guess who came 3rd? 😀 Granted, you may think “well it’s only 3rd”, but it does mean still that I came 1st out of the whole Tech team! And […]
Was bound to happen : my very first Christmas tree in California!
As you probably know from my previous posts, I keep a (rather hopeful) eye on the evolution of Romanian Rugby. And after a couple of years of looking around, I got this awesome present (thanks, sis!) — an official Romanian Rugby Federation, matchday ball: All I have to do no is to put my name […]
A while back I’ve boasted on this very blog about the amount of traffic it has reached — based on stats that I have pulled up from the Wassup WordPress Plugin. I have decided recently to have a closer look at the traffic — any blogger who’s taking himself seriously checks now and then on […]
If at any point in your coding life you had to measure some component performance, chances are that you came across Perf4J at some point. To quote from their own website: Perf4J is to System.currentTimeMillis() as log4j is to System.out.println() There are of course other ways to measure timings of components execution, however, I found […]
I guess I’m no rugby expert but I am an avid fan — those of you who know me can probably testify for that. My passion for the sport goes to the point of considering rugby the ultimate sport – as I believe it has a bit of every other sport in it – and […]
I found myself recently using the Buffer class in the Apache Commons Collections framework — and realised that the Buffer-related classes don’t get enough coverage as they probably should, since they can actually provide out-of-the-box solutions to common development problems. So I started this little exercise partly to demonstrate some of the powerful Buffer-based classes […]
I will explain at the end what triggered in my mind this virtual theater play — as I had a deja vu moment and couldn’t help but share it (story of my blog really 🙂 ). This is my first attempt at “writing” a play so bear with me — hopefully it will be worth […]
Just got this in the post the other day (thank you!!!) — I think it pretty much sums up every one of my days nowadays 🙂
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