I seem to be on a roll today so I thought I’d mention this little tip that I have come across in the past when using arrays — more specifically bi-dimensional arrays. We think of such arrays (in Java and other languages as well!) quite often as a bit of a Scrabble board where we […]
I discovered this recently myself (having not been a big fan of Apache Commons Collections in the past) — and it’s a useful feature if you are dealing with a list of objects that can be compared by more than one property. For instance, consider you have a list of Person’s (see class below) which […]
On the subject of Java code optimisation: I’m sure we’re all familiar with the concept of thread pooling — typically used together with the Executor framework. Configuring your thread pools can be tricky: choose a small value and you’re not making usage of your server power, on the other hand, choose a value large enough […]
This is something that I have seen quite a few times while looking online at other people’s code so I thought I’d write about it quickly — preach the world and all that 🙂 I’m referring here to the JDK class StringBuilder, however, those of you who know your JDK classes would surely have figured […]
If you haven’t heard the phrase yet, memorise it now: plan for a crisis! Because if there is one thing certain in the running of each company, that is having a crisis – we all encounter it on one level or another. You might be lucky enough for your crisis to be your project just […]
I just pissed myself laughing seeing this and had to share it — a true gem from the guys at Funny Ads:
The “equation” in the title has go doubt puzzled you as it is nonsense 🙂 I couldn’t agree better, though there are a lot of people that don’t see that! Intrigued to hear that? What if I was to tell you that the above formula should be read “if you double the number of developers […]
I’ve only titled this post “rugby dating” to see if this ad actually appears on my site as well to be honest 🙂 I’ve mentioned this site in one of my previous posts, but didn’t make too much of it as I thought it’s one of those small nichey dating sites that will never grow […]
I’ve posted before about bandwidth in my posts and I knew from the beginning that it’s one of those issues that you can never exhaust. As it happens recently I came across another interesting thing which is probably worth sharing: cross browser delivery. In brief, it means delivering to each browser the content it can […]
I saw this and thought it was dead funny, so apologies to those of you who already saw it already on some … social networking sites (ironically enough!) — but this is what the future will look like when the YouTube, facebook and Twitter merge:
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