Archive for the ‘meme’ Category

How to sneak easter eggs past the pointy haired boss

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I’m part of a small team that is developing a cool Java product. We’ve been afloat for more than a year and we’re doing better every month. We’ve grown quite a bit during this time. There used to be only one developer, then I joined the team and now we already have 4 devs.
Until now [...]



Caricature: JavaRebel winning the JOLT Productivity Award

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Thanks to Risto for making it. I’m the dude on the left :) Oh, and download JavaRebel!



JavaRebel wins JOLT productivity award

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

JavaRebel wins JOLT productivity award — awesome!



The Ultimate Java Puzzler

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Why is this particular one the ultimate? Two reasons:

It’s at the very core of the Java language, not some obscure piece of API.
It melted my brain when I hit it.

UPDATE 2: If you want to test yourself before reading the post take this test. Results are not saved (it’s a paid feature apparently and I [...]



SpringSource is not the devil?

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

SpringSource is not the devil? — apparently the community outcry was strong enough to revoke the most outrageous part of the new policy: now the latest stable branch will have maintenance releases even after the three month stoppoint. The funny part is that now the “three months” don’t have any value whatsoever, as the space [...]