Just upgraded an application from Java 6/Spring 3/JBoss 5 to Java 9/Spring 5/Wildfly 11. Aside from making it an obvious aggregated 78.6% better, it also moves it from almost 10 years old technology into a whole bunch of release candidates. […]
Month: September 2017
Today is a day to remember terrible flight-related incidents. It’s today exactly 15 years ago I left a workshop at Microsoft Research in Cambridge where I had been talking about multi-touch on Windows (it was multi-mouse back then). They had an excellent bartender who would wave me to the front of the line and have […]
My neighbor is celebrating their 40 year birthday with loud music tonight. I was planning on celebrating with loud music tomorrow at 8, but now they’re playing Britney, so I’ll be nice 🙂 […]
Mean Means
I am for whatever reasons computing some averages. Should be simple enough, right? The average of 4 and 6 is (4 + 6) / 2 = 5, right? Yes, but no. TD;DR: computers are dumb! Any sensible person would implement the computation in a C/Java style language like this: [java] int avg1(final int a, final […]
Minor Improvements
It’s been a while since I last wrote about the Model-based Testing Workbench. That’s not for lack of developments, but because I bit over what turned out to be much more complex and useful than I originally anticipated. That’s not the topic of this post, though, in this post I’ll outline a bunch of minor […]
An Answer to the Backup Question?
I’ve been posting a lot about backup. Well, not a lot a lot, but pretty much every year or so the past half decade or so, I have solicited the wisdom of the internet brain trust as I was searching for a backup solution. My backup needs are a bit atypical; they are not unique, […]