Category Archives: Software Development

I really like the interaction of the command line with more advanced user interfaces. So today I got around to finally writing a little wrapper script for the mac, that notifies me with speech output when a program has finished … Continue reading →

I have just stumbled across a piece of code like this: Object getSomeValue() { Object value = null; try { value = errorProneOperation(); } catch (IOException e) { throw new IllegalStateException(e); } return value; } Now I find this really … Continue reading →

On the train back to Berlin I spiked a little fluent Json Builder in Java. Here is one of my acceptance tests: JsonBuilder builder = new JsonBuilder<NULL>() .addObject("name") .addProperty("first", "Holden") .addProperty("last", "Caulfield") .end() .addArray("contact") .addPrimitive("00447903217666") .addObject() .addProperty("street", "5 Mayton St") … Continue reading →

I recently did some work around analysing xml files for data imports. This kind of task is usually well suited for taco bell programming. Now xml is not easily manipulated with standard unix utilities, so I looked for a way … Continue reading →

Last year I started reading or rereading some of the classical texts in computer science. The first one was the CLU Reference Manual by Prof. Liskov et al. The book and the language were conceived in the seventies. CLU is … Continue reading →

I recently redesigned some of the code I tend to use to spawn external processes (pdflatex anyone?) in java. The implementation is still a bit buggy, but I am more interested in people’s opinions about the API (non-blocking killable invocations … Continue reading →

Note to self: join works only on sorted text files.

One of my recent java projects was to be used by users with three different languages. We went with the standard java approach of using properties files for messages. In intellij there is decent tool support for that. However it … Continue reading →

Some two years ago I had the pleasure of working with a code base that relied heavily on the spring SimpleForm framework. The thing I didn’t like about this framework was the whole controller class hierarchy. Essentially there is about … Continue reading →

Two weeks back I posted a video explaining how to get started with Enumerable.java. While this might have been enough information to start playing, there is a lot more to consider when going with Enumerable.java for production use. Over the … Continue reading →