I was going to write a really grand blog entry about how to instantiate a Java object of the type specified as parameter to a generic class but I figured that someone must have done that already. The blog article Java Generics: Instantiating Objects Of Type Parameter Without Passing Class Literal To Instance sums it… Continue reading Instantiating Java objects of generic type parameter
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Namespace separator in PHP
Danne has the stuff, but I can tell that backslash is the buzz!
Note to self: SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe
The details are nicely laid out in DateFormat objects and thread-safety and a number of other blog posts…
Nordic Agile in Stockholm on December 1-4
Øresund Agile goes Nordic Agile! Scrum for team members is a workshop directed to the developers and testers in an agile team,, an obviously very important component in an agile project but maybe not so much the primary target for conferences and the like. I liked Jim Coplien’s Agile Architecture session on Øresund Agile 2008… Continue reading Nordic Agile in Stockholm on December 1-4
SpringSource to stop providing maintenance releases for free
Is this possibly the latest Java community buzz? SpringSource Announces Enterprise Maintenance Policy. Mats Henricson asks What is SpringSource doing with its license? and while the SpringSource Enterprise Maintenance Policy FAQ states that there is no license change, the SpringSource Enterprise Maintenance Policy sure is a change. They summarize it quite consise themselves: After a… Continue reading SpringSource to stop providing maintenance releases for free
Download Civilization IV: Colonization torrent
This is a link to a file called Download Civilization IV: Colonization torrent that contains the full press release and this is the most relevant part: In Colonization, players lead one of four European nations on a quest to conquer and rule the New World. Players will be challenged to guide their people from the… Continue reading Download Civilization IV: Colonization torrent
New Windows PC and monitor ordered
I usually pride myself with not falling for "special offers" but when I found this €450 computer and monitor package I could not resist. The new hardware is an HP Compaq dx2450 Microtower PC and an HP L2208w 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor. It’s not high-end stuff, but I think it should work nicely for iTunes,… Continue reading New Windows PC and monitor ordered
The power of greylisting is aided by whitelisting
I’ve been running gld for more than two months now and it is truly efficient. The current statistics say: # of entries in the database : 16077 # of one hit entries in the database : 15100 Oldest entry in database : 65 days ago This means that almost 94% of the attempts to send… Continue reading The power of greylisting is aided by whitelisting
Entity bean bloat
I’m currently getting acquainted with JBoss, SpringSource Application Platform, JBoss Seam and Spring Framework. One thing that amazes me is the amount of code required for some simple O/R mapping, or I am missing something? I hope to be wrong about this, but it seems like an EJB3 "entity bean" requires, for each column in… Continue reading Entity bean bloat
Now running Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” on this server too
I had to mess around a lot with the upgrade, and when the upgrade was finished at last, the reboot failed so I had to get physical access to the machine. Strangely enough, when I rebooted it once more it worked fine! The main issue with the upgrade was problems with verifying the hash of… Continue reading Now running Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” on this server too