The Silly Season

The Silly Season

i've been busy moving, and playing around with a few things and will be back to posting (hopefully) before the year is out.

happy holidays! ~incomplete

What Programming is Like - (in gif form)

What Programming is Like - (in gif form)

http://i.minus.com/ibaDjk7AeIcvxv.gif

The Reality of a Developers Life

The Reality of a Developers Life

something a colleague pass on - very funny

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/02/the-reality-of-developers-life.html

When you get a Pull Request without Tests

When you get a Pull Request without Tests

a little friday humor from a colleague - very good!

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The Joys of Code - Refactoring to make code portable

The Joys of Code - Refactoring to make code portable

a great little 'example' of the benefits of portable code;

http://thejoysofcode.com/post/41266051897/when-i-refactor-to-make-my-code-portable

Hibernate 4 and WebSphere / JTA

Hibernate 4 and WebSphere / JTA

when looking through to debug some code recently i came across this...

package org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal;

public class WebSphereExtendedJtaPlatform extends AbstractJtaPlatform {

 ...

@Override
@SuppressWarnings( {"UnnecessaryBoxing"})
public Object getTransactionIdentifier(Transaction transaction) {

// WebSphere, however, is not a sane JEE/JTA container...

return Integer.valueOf( transaction.hashCode() );

}


 ...
}

brilliant!

The Maven

The Maven

a very good little piece about maven and it's joys

http://timberglund.com/blog/2012/08/03/the-maven/

Big Data (Funny)

Big Data by Dilbert (Scott Adams)

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Backing Up or How Toy Story 2 Nearly Wasn't

neat little clip outlining what happened when someone rm'd the film, then the backups were corrupt

http://www.tested.com/videos/44220-how-pixar-almost-lost-toy-story-2-to-a-bad-backup/

Java Heist Youtube (NSFW)

Some Fun - Java Heist (NSFW - Language)

full credit to a colleagues referral to this great youtube clip