Month: April 2005

  • NASA Open Source Bug Detection Software

    NASA have announced the open-sourcing of a system called Java Pathfinder (not the rover). The idea is that it goes over every execution path in a Java program and detects problems such as deadlocks, NullPointerExceptions and the like. From the site, the system seems like it has room to grow – it can handle sources […]

  • Dependency Injection with Spring and Struts

    A couple of phrases have been getting mentioned lately around the tech sites: Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control(IoC) – both terms refer to the same thing. Fuzzy terms that you read when you’re looking up something else and bleep over. Start paying attention – this stuff is going to make your life so […]

  • On emulators, and why you shouldn’t believe everything you read.

    Whenever you go through a tech book it’s important to keep in mind that the environment has changed since the time of writing, and therefore the author’s word should not be taken as gospel. After all, that most of this stuff will be out of date in 6 months, if not earlier (that is if […]

  • My wombat runneth over!

    Woohoo! My first running mobile game!

  • Is geek humour becoming superfluous?

    One of these is real, and the other is a joke. Can you tell which is which? Remote controlled badgers Remote controlled rats I have this theory that there’s this bunch of guys at the US Department of Defence whose job it is to surf around joke sites looking for potential weapons programs…

  • Wombat roadkill, or fun with J2ME.

    It occurred to me a while back that programming games would be far more interesting than doing business applications all the time – anyone who codes for a living could probably agree that you need to flex the brain muscles every now and again… So I did some thinking and came to the conclusion that […]

  • The sad state of Dublin’s kebabs

    After an evening of stimulating conversation with some of Dim’s work colleagues, we wandered off from the pub with a hankering for kebab (as you do). To our complete digust, we had found that two previously solid joints, Momo’s (which we had both raved about to our mates) and Zaytoon, had replaced their lamb with […]

  • More knowledge that you could ever cram in your head – free!

    MIT are running a program called OpenCourseWare that allows you to go through most of their courses online for free. They are all non-assessable and you will not get any sort of credit for it, but for people like me who can’t get enough information, it’s absolutely insane! All undergraduate and postgraduate course materials, lecture […]

  • So what’s this all about?

    Firstly an introduction. My name’s Jake, I am a consulting software engineer currently residing in Dublin, Ireland having moved up just under a year ago from Australia with my wife Dim (short for Dimitria). The idea of this blog was really about dropping in a few bits of technical info that aren’t really available anywhere […]