Things that brighten up a meeting: making jokes about lack of power while sitting at a power plant and the hosts being unable to switch on the lights. […]
Month: March 2017
Quite happy about the direct line to Aarhus (shortens the time to get to Cockney Pub by 3-4 hours)! If only it were a better airline… […]
Nested Transactions and Dining Philosophers
So, here’s an interesting Java issue I came about last week. Java EE supports annotating methods using an @Transactional annotation. If you’re familiar with it, it’s similar to the synchronized keyword except on the database level. It also is if you’re not familiar with synchronized. Transactional supports setting how transactions should be picked up – […]
Nested Transactions and Dining Philosophers
So, here’s an interesting Java issue I came about last week. Java EE supports annotating methods using an @Transactional annotation. If you’re familiar with it, it’s similar to the synchronized keyword except on the database level. It also is if you’re not familiar with synchronized. Transactional supports setting how transactions should be picked up – […]
Smart Thinking: The National Dairy Council Will Take Credit For All Terror Attacks So ISIS Can’t Use Them To Recruit
I makes me immensely happy we live in a world where, on the face of it, there’s no way to decide whether this is a joke or not. I’m not going to ruin it by fact checking it. http://www.clickhole.com/article/smart-thinking-national-dairy-council-will-take-cr-5654 […]
I made a Petri net model! For actual real-life work things. It’s 8 variants of the dining philosophers. 2 of them deadlock; one of them surprisingly and one of them doesn’t even thought I thought it might. […]