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 – […]

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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 […]

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Rainternet of Things

I got myself a BloomSky Sky 2 weather station on Kickstarter. It’s pretty neat. It measures all kinds of weather things, like temperature and humidity, and snaps pictures of the sky every 3 minutes during the day. The thing is cloud connected, which is hilarious because it’s about weather. That means it uploads weather information […]

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