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maven site Problem with Hash Symbol (#)
Not sure if it’s just me who’s been digging around this issue for a while, maybe it’s common knowledge to the maven community, but I found this very frustrated dealing with this and researching it on the net, so having finally found the solution to this I thought I’d post it here. If nothing else, […]
Cache Ahead using Apache Commons Pool
If you have done any code that needs some sort of pooling of resources (which is some sort of caching, let’s face it), you would have no doubt come across Apache Commons Pool. (In fact the DBCP pool is used as a standard in applications which require database connection pooling.) The framework offers most of […]
WP-Syntax Gotcha for Dealing with Less Than and Greater Than Signs
I’ve been digging for a while now into how to fix this annoying issue that I’m having with WP-Syntax plugin when writing code which contains less than (<) or greater than (>) — which, let’s face it, if you have an if / while / for in the code is bound to happen! The trouble […]
No More Architects and Cowboys, Please!
I’ve read recently Dustin’s post “Software Architects Need Not Apply” (and in fact was very pleasantly pleased to see that JavaWorld has republished it on their site!) and I felt the subject needs a few words from me too (as always! 🙂 ). I think Dustin made a valid point there : “those who can, […]
The Other Side of the Fence
I felt I needed to write this, as we have been interviewing for a bit in Cognitive Match, for various segments of our technical team and we had occasionally bad luck with the candidates who turned up. Having been on both sides of the recruiting fence in my life, I realise that a certain percentage […]
A Lesson in Class a la California :-)
Who said that Californians drive only 4×4’s and above? Check out this big bad boy, as seen in a Safeway car park (for real!):
Out and About in One of the Parks in Cupertino This Weekend
Felt a bit like being in St James’s Park in London — minus the rainy weather 🙂
Simplify Your Singletons
I’ve seen recently some Java code (I’m not telling whose, you probably know who you are :p) where a singleton pattern was involved. Nothing unusual here, you would say — and you’re right, I probably found myself using Singleton and Factory and Observer in pretty much every single Java project I ever worked on. The […]
Exhibition artisticlab.org in Bucharest
On Tuesday, 22nd of May 2012, artisticlab had an exhibition in Bucharest. Unfortunately, being in California and all that, I wasn’t there for the live event, but I am lucky enough to be the receiver of some of the photos taken at launch. As to be expected, this was very well received by the public, […]
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