http://www.bright-green.com/blog/ Alan Green Writes en-us 2008-02-04T22:18:35+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2008_02_04/lies_damn_lies_and_dam.html Apparently, weve had a lot of rain lately. The water board reckon that it hasnt made much difference: Warragamba Dam had received just 30 millimetres of rain since Friday, a spokeswoman for the Sydney Catchment Authority said. The rainfall weve had... Stuff Rants alang 2008-02-04T22:18:35+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2008_01_04/phase_playlist_sync_bug.html I recently downloaded the game Phase for my shiny new iPod Nano and immediately hit a bug synchronizing the Phase playlist. If you just want to know how to solve the bug, skip down two paragraphs while I tell everyone else about Phase. Phase is one ... Stuff Software Development Rants alang 2008-01-04T22:09:49+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_11_27/in_which_i_write_a.html Andrew Bolt presented very calmly on Insiders on Sunday, and I thought, Hooray! The culture wars are over. But no. Today Andrew Bolt is back denying the Stolen Generations. In summary, his argument is that, because Robert Manne couldnt name ten peop... Rants alang 2007-11-27T20:37:15+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_09_17/why_united_is_better_than.html United are better than Qantas in all these ways: They have moisturiser in the bathroom, in addition to the soap. Stuff Rants alang 2007-09-17T22:09:57+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_09_09/the_sydney_declaration_of_conv.html The Australian Prime Minister is so proud of The Sydney Declaration on Climate Change and Energy, the agreement he shepherded through the latest APEC meeting. He says, This is the first such agreement involving the major pollutersthe United States, C... Stuff Rants alang 2007-09-09T20:21:46+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_10_05/python_tracker_fud.html Its great to see that the PSF Infrastructure committee have (almost) chosen an issue tracker. Whats disappointing, though, is the reaction over on comp.lang.python. Giovanni and friends should remember that this is the end of the process for choos... Rants Python alang 2006-10-05T19:23:02+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_05/so_i_walked_over_to.html So I walked over to Davids desk, and tried to hand him a dollar coin. He didnt take it. He told me hed rather I gave the dollar to iStockphoto, so they could send him 20 cents. Apparently theres more to this photography gig than money. Stuff Rants alang 2006-10-05T07:32:23+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_04/how_cheap.html Sometimes software is cheaper if you buy from a distributor. For example, ESRIs MapObjects for Java costs $5000, if you buy direct, or just $50 if you go to the Cheap Software Megastore. Update: Apparently I dont do irony all that well. Lets be clea... Software Development Rants alang 2006-10-04T07:30:44+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_04/google_ate_my_feeds.html I was quite enjoying the new Google Reader for a while there. Then it started showing me items Id already read. Then it started miscalculating the counts on the left hand side. Now it tells me that I am not subscribed to any feeds at all. Its not nor... Software Development Rants Tall Tales alang 2006-10-04T03:21:03+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_07_10/how_not_to_name_a.html If I were building a system for capturing training records, I wouldnt call it, Train Rec, would I? Rants Software Development javablogs alang 2006-07-10T11:48:47+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_07_10/javautilproperties_and_generic.html I cant wait for Java 6.0. It looks like community involvement is a success. For instance, just now, I was working in JDK1.5, where I had a properties file and needed to see the kes. I wrote: for (String key : props.keySet()) { ... } ... javablogs Java Rants alang 2006-07-10T00:19:55+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_07_09/just_one_more_level_of.html Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.David Wheeler My program had Tools. But there was no way for users to create a tool, so I made a list of ToolDefinitions.... javablogs Software Development Java Rants alang 2006-07-09T21:44:15+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_06_14/hello_bright_green_world.html Regular visitors will note that this website has changed its name from cardboard.nu to bright-green.com. Ive been meaning to make the switch for some time now, partly so that people no longer look at me funny when I spell out my email address, and pa... Java Stuff Christian Life Python Tall Tales Rants alang 2006-06-14T13:26:25+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_06_07/me_vs_proprietary_software.html Ive been developing with mostly open-source software for the last two years, and its made me soft. I realised this today, when I encountered a problem with the ESRI Map Objects libraries I am evaluating. An event listener that should at least accord... Rants Software Development javablogs alang 2006-06-07T06:51:08+00:00