Author: Jakub
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Why does a PC have to take 2 minutes to start up?
Technology review published an article on a technology that will get new PC’s booting to a useable state in a few seconds as opposed to the couple of minutes that it currently takes – albeit with an operating system parallel to Windows. http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20072/?a=f This has been a real pain for me, as I am in…
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Sequence diagram voodoo?
Every once in a while I forget how to do something in UML. InformIT have a great guide on the use of the notation just for this purpose. Nice. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=360441&seqNum=5&rl=1
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Dublin Java Pub Quiz Today
If you are in Dublin and trying to work out what to do with yourself on a cold winter evening, why not come down to the pub for a few beers and a bit of friendly competition? http://www.dubjug.org/events/jug/2008/quiz
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How crap is your code?
Now you can find out with Crap4J. Can wait to run some projects through it. I’m curious as to what the code quality looks like on some of the larger Open Source projects (Dom4J looks pretty good though). I love stats. I don’t know what it is. They’re like horoscopes, or something. Pinch of salt…
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Unit testing made simpler(!)
What is simpler than writing a JUnit test? Getting someone else to write them for you! The really nice people at Agitar Software have developed a couple of tools as part of their “No Java Class Left Behind” programme, that will write JUnit tests for your existing code to prove that it works as expected.…
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Sometimes it is easy to forget
I have been meaning to post lately on everything from an insight that I had into systems architecture when looking at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, to why JRuby is barking up the wrong tree. But I have been otherwise occupied 🙁 So here’s what I term a Moment: Stay tuned.
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Russian Politics in the Crystal Ball
Tomorrow the Russians go to the polls to vote for the Duma, the Russian parliament. Vladimir Putin is not standing for the presidency next time around as his tenure is legaly limited by the constitution to two terms, and will instead be putting himself forward as a parliamentary candidate. Here’s my prediction for the near…
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If we can do this, anything is possible
Holy cow. We did it! Three months ago a couple of guys in a bar were talking about how cool it would be to do a Java conference in Dublin. Many sleepless nights and countless emails later, 350 people attended the inaugural IJTC! The response was overwhelming. We had a world class lineup, the logistics…
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Opening night
Yesterday’s event worked out really well. We had about 100 people in the theater take part in opening evening. My welcome speech was nothing to be worried about – I forgot half of what I was going to say, but that’s OK – it just gives me some opening words this morning. Joel’s keynote presentation…
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Tonight is the night!
I am about to head off to the IJTC. It’s an incredible feeling to know that we have managed to put together a conference in only 3 months! We are expecting well over 200 delegates this evening, and even though I am MCing the event this evening, I am not in the least bit nervous.…