Volatile
Volatile ED: Most people don’t even know what it means…
Thomas Hehl is a system architect at Heavyweight Software (https://www.heavyweightsoftware.com), author, and all around thinker. He currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Dirty
Dirty ED: Returning clean is no fun.
Look for the Goto Label
Look for the Goto Label Not quite a comment but a goto label
If it is Broke, don’t Fix it
If it is Broke, don’t Fix it ED: Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
Teaching Binary using Socratic Method
Teaching Binary using Socratic Method is republished from http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html. The following is a transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school. I present my perspective and views on the session, and on the Socratic method as a teaching tool, following the transcript. The…
A Story about Magic (More Magic)
Republished from: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab’s PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab’s hardware hackers (no one knows who). You don’t touch an…
Writing a Basic Servlet with IntelliJ IDEA
I recently had a need for writing a basic servlet to meet a need for a project I was on. Then, I came to the realizatoin that I hadn’t written a plain, vanilla, servlet in quite a while. I have been using the spring framework to bootstrap my development. So, I looked around for tutorials…
LinkedList vs. ArrayList
LinkedList vs. ArrayList A few years ago, I was explaining to my team why we should be using LinkedList and not ArrayList. I told them that while Arrays were better for random access, nearly everything we did, which was put things in a list and then process them sequentially, would be better with LinkedList. Their…
Creating a Mock Class for Unit Testing with a Spring Repository
Creating a Mock Class for Unit Testing with a Spring Repository I don’t know about you, but when I do unit testing, I often don’t want to have to deal with all of the details about accessing the data store. In fact, all of those details can make your unit tests far more brittle than…
Keep your Legs Together
Keep your Legs Together ED: Yea, I’m leaving that one alone.