General Updates and Major Changes – Nothing new from the Western Front

Despite the semester starting soon/having just started (being a good student, I don’t recall exactly when it starts), I’ve been fooling around with my MBT Workbench still.  I still owe a video demo and an update on the report generation, but between cultivating a healthy hate of JasperReports and not feeling like investing 5-10 hours […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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A Very Lively Memory Leak

It’s summer, and we all all know what that means: rain!  And when it rains, things get all leaky.  Memory leaky. The past couple days, we encountered a particularly interesting memory leak.  We had some code which would leak memory and after around a month or so of running, it would start yielding problems. Due […]

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Generic Data-types for User-interfaces

I’m playing around making an application for model-based testing.  It’s a standard GUI application, so of course, I am relying on the model-view-controller design pattern for the overall structure.  I am, however, too lazy to set up a big-ol’ object model, so the basic structure of my model is just this: [java] public class Project extends […]

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Wishlist: Image Pipeline and Storage

I’m playing around with multiple ideas in the IoT world currently because I’m trying to collect 200 millistarbucks ((A millistarbucks is a measure of hipsterness I developed.  It is defined as 1000 millistarbucks is an entire Starbucks full of hipsters on MacBooks.)) of hipster Dictionary.  For this I am looking for two things: image pipelining […]

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