Month: May 2009

  • On Immutability

    I quite like to use immutable value objects. They are really useful. However there are limits to this. Especially when it comes to objects with rich internal structures. Here you end up with a multi-line nested constructor call to create your object. I don’t think this is terribly readable. Also I see that people make…

  • Using the clipboard effectively – “Held der Kommandozeile”

    Every now and then even the über-geek can’t avoid the use of non-command-line-tools. Currently I am doing a bit of production support work, so tail, grep, and awk are my friends. However people expect emails, excel spreadsheets, and similar stuff. So what to do? Well use the best of both worlds pipe your output into…