http://www.bright-green.com/blog/ Alan Green Writes en-us 2008-03-03T22:55:02+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2008_03_03/java_nerd_shirt.html Charles is getting together a bunch of T-shirt slogans for Java nerds. Here's what I'd put on mine: dup iadd iconst_0 ior Groovy That'll ramp up the nerd quotient of just about any gathering on the face of the Earth. javablogs Software Development Java alang 2008-03-03T22:55:02+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_01_01/step_by_step_to_a.html The last paragraph of my previous post wasnt particularly clear. Heres a step-by-step guide to modelling the Suns direction at sunset, using only a ball, a lamp, and a texta. Put a lamp up one end of the room. This will be the Sun. Get a ball to re... Python javablogs Tall Tales alang 2007-01-01T20:19:56+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_01_01/sydneyside_southerly_sunset.html Julian has an astronomical puzzle. He claimed: If you are located further South than the Tropic of Capricorn, then the Sun will never be directly overhead, and furthermore will only appear in the Northern half of the sky. I predicted that this fa... Python javablogs Tall Tales alang 2007-01-01T00:22:44+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_12_21/last_day.html Well, after four and a half years, Im leaving this job. Its been a blast. For such a little company, its amazingly stuffed with talented, interesting people. Amongst my colleagues are Keith, David, and Neville. Other alumni include Charles Miller (wh... Stuff javablogs Software Development Python Java alang 2006-12-21T23:47:11+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_12_14/rails_vs_django_paper_and.html Following in the steps of beautiful people such as Mary, Keith, Andy, and Anthony, Im posting the paper and slides for Bens and my OSDC presentation. The Rails vs Django Paper in Open Office The Rails vs Django Paper as a pdf The Rails vs Django P... Python javablogs alang 2006-12-14T10:27:40+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_12_12/junit_4_tutorial_on_javanet.html Java.net has a neat little JUnit 4 tutorial. I hadnt checked before, but JUnit 4 includes a whole bunch of new features. javablogs Java alang 2006-12-12T20:21:01+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_11_27/mmm_flame_bait.html As flame-bait, Ten reasons why every programmer should learn C is pretty good. It takes a perfectly reasonable proposition, that learning C can be helpful, expresses it as an absolute, then backs it up with ten points, each of which is either mislead... Software Development javablogs alang 2006-11-27T22:18:24+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_11_15/why_java_needs_to_escape.html At the same time as I had a great big blog dummy spit about a known memory leak in java.util.concurrent, I did the constructive thing and submitted a bug report. My basic point was that, if the code cant be fixed, the problem and its workaround shoul... javablogs Software Development Python Java Rants alang 2006-11-15T11:14:53+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_11_14/rails_vs_django.html Bens and my Rails vs Django OSDC paper is now up on Google Docs. Please have a read, and, if you have any feedback, leave a comment here, or get in touch via the email addresses at the bottom of the paper. Python Software Development javablogs alang 2006-11-14T00:28:39+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_24/beware_the_memory_leak_in.html I recently discovered that, under certain circumstances, synchronisation mechanisms offered by java.util.concurrent leak memory. When making a timed wait against, say, CountDownLatch, the latch will allocate a small object that is not garbage collect... javablogs Java alang 2006-10-24T23:01:44+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_22/google_maps_api.html I had a look at the Google Maps Javascript API. It put me in mind of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigades active incident display recently developed by my colleague, Chris so I wrote a quick Python script to scrape the MFBs page and jammed the ... Python Software Development javablogs alang 2006-10-22T11:37:04+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_17/i_want_one.html Sun have recently released Project Blackbox 250 T1000 servers in a box. I Want One. Or Two. Perhaps if I put it on my Amazon wishlist Software Development javablogs alang 2006-10-17T22:27:01+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_17/fixing_weird_threading_issues.html For those of us with weird Java threading problems, StackTrace is magic. Try this: Start a Java application. Anything will do, even Eclipse or IDEA. Point your browser at their download page. Click the "Launch" icon. Click through the warning... javablogs Java alang 2006-10-17T06:08:04+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_10/the_engineer_and_the_manager.html I heard the Hot Air Balloon, Manager and Engineer joke several years ago, and its still funny. Lots of other people seem to think so too. Software Development javablogs alang 2006-10-10T23:24:22+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_09/more_muhahahaha.html Inspired by todays Daily WTF, heres the Google search for evil genius code. That search led me to a file named LargeCollectionOfVirusSources_virus00.zip, which seems to show that virus authors comment their code quite well. Digg ing a little on the a... Software Development javablogs alang 2006-10-09T20:36:48+00:00