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Category Archives: Ramblings
More Artificially Complex Problem Spaces
At the Rice Computer Science Affiliates Meeting, I just listened to an interesting talk by Keith Cooper about the PACE (platform-aware compilation environment) project. Keith mainly talked about resource and configuration detection, e.g. detecting cache sizes and alignment. Moshe Vardi … Continue reading
AWT Exception Handler Cannot Be Reset After Exception
When testing ConcJUnit some more from inside DrJava, I noticed some weird behavior. I had a JUnit 3.8.2 version of a test, and an equivalent JUnit 4 version. Run independently, they behaved as expected (which in my line of work … Continue reading
And the Annoying Twit of the Month Award Goes to…
And the annoying twit of the month award goes to… this guy, a student at the Ozarks Technical Community College, for his truly legendary effort of generating 38 support emails to us without considering that the problem might be in … Continue reading
Confusing Hudson Test Failure
After moving our Hudson server to a new server, we started to experience a very confusing test failure in the Java Language Levels module. The test that failed was AdvancedLevelTest.testShouldBeErrors. It compiles the files in javalanglevels/testFiles/forAdvancedLevelTest/shouldBreak/ and makes sure that … Continue reading
Goodbye Computer Shopper, Hello Esquire?
Please be advised that Computer Shopper magazine has ceased publication after the April 2009 issue. […] Special arrangements have been made with Esquire magazine to service your subscription for its full remaining term. You will receive three issues of Esquire … Continue reading
Musings about Facebook Application Privacy
After reading the ACLU’s report about Facebook app privacy problems and taking the quiz demonstrating them, What Do Quizzes Really Know About You?, I was a little upset at first. The privacy settings just seemed completely insane. Let’s use one’s … Continue reading
DrJava with Mint on Mac “Cosmetically” Closer
Sweet! DrJava with Mint on the Mac just came within reach, or at least as close as it is on the other operating systems. For some reason, when I ran DrJava under Soylatte and X11 earlier, no compilers showed up. … Continue reading
Mint in DrJava is Tricky
I’ve been trying to get the Mint compiler to work inside DrJava. This has turned out to be more tricky than I thought. The preempting class loader that we use to load different compiler adapters is still giving me headaches, … Continue reading
SourceForge Subversion Problems
Corky and I are having problems on the CSnet ma… Continue reading
Academia.edu and Publications Category
A few days ago, I got an email from Academia.ed… Continue reading
Sometimes I feel really dumb
I was reading this MixGen paper, and I came acr… Continue reading
volatile For Synchronizing non-volatile Data
Jevgeni Kabanov on dow.ngra.de made an interes… Continue reading
Mixed Bag
This post is just a mixed bag of things. First,… Continue reading
Re: Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?
Joey Gibson expresses exactly how I feel. I lov… Continue reading
Bad Shortcuts
Sometimes, trying to take a shortcut can make y… Continue reading
Symphony and Exams
Yesterday, I finally went to the first symphony… Continue reading
SourceForge Removes Shell Access, Becomes Terrible Mess
SourceForge is a terrible mess now. The old and… Continue reading
Grad Students Not Assisted During Ike
My letter to the editor of The Thresher was pri… Continue reading
Two Weeks, Gone With The Wind
It’s hard to believe that two weeks have truly … Continue reading
“I’m there to learn and not them, morality can go shove it”
This doesn’t fit with anything really except th… Continue reading