Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

…but still a valuable addition to my professional wardrobe. That helps me being mindful of what I am and what I am not.

Assuming Sun manages to get “closures” into Java7 there is still a few things that are lacking. Today I once again ran into the restrictions around annotations. The .Net solution is simply more elegant. The fact that I can’t use arbitrary classes for annotation parameters is arbitrary and promotes widespread abuse of enums. Also that…

Here some links to the pdf and the sources for my tutorial.

I spent the best part of this week on doing remote deployments to a jboss server running on Windows. Don’t ask why I am doing this. But there is an intersting observation about psexec. It doesn’t work reliably when called with redirected io, e.g. from the awesome TeamCity server. Apparently there is a fix, which…

This post is to announce the publishing of “Divine Code – Practices of the Proper Christian Programmer”. Whilst more or less appropriate commandments have a long standing tradition in software development – one of the first examples being Dijkstra’s famous “Goto Considered Harmful”, little has so far been written about sound practices in God fearing…

I was somewhat shocked to learn that a lot of my colleagues are not even aware of the existence of jetty. I have been using it for quite a while. It is the best thing you can do during development – and no jboss is not a good thing it is after all quite similar…