From the monthly archives: January 2007

You know it’s time to go to bed when…

By On January 8, 2007 · 2 Comments

…removing an empty album in your gallery turns into deleting your entire collection of around 2000 photos.
Quick reflexes limited the damage to one album – the Animals one, and backups should help me get that back.
Definitely not what I needed given the number of hours I’ve been putting in to organizing [...]

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(not) Observable

By On January 6, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Why aren’t Java classes Observable by default? Or at least, why isn’t java.util.Observable an Interface?

gah!

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So who exactly is the child?

By On January 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I keep seeing people say that the Squeak user interface will turn off “serious” developers.
It seems to me that a serious developer knows full well that the colour of the IDE and the shape of the buttons have very little to do with the quality of the programming environment.

If anyone [...]

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2006

By On January 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A quick summary of 2006 for me.

The good stuff:

Travel! – Work sent me to Prague and Berlin on an incentive trip, then to Chicago and and a nowhere town (Dayton) in Ohio for some training afterwards. Met the wonderful Lori, who then visited me for a week, and stayed for three months Cons! [...]

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