http://hashbrownonthemic.com Riffs from an overheated mind Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:56:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During my recent week at the JavaOne conference, I attended several sessions dealing with issues of concurrency in programming. What started as a cursory interest, turned into a strong desire to really understand these problems at a deeper level. But I'm still really a noob when it comes ... http://hashbrownonthemic.com/2009/07/31/java-concurrency-for-dummies-pt-1-the-basics/ This is a puzzler we created at my work to use as an interview problem. I had a fun time taking it myself, and got it wrong the first time! It was designed to mimic some bad legacy code you might encounter when working on a large aging ... http://hashbrownonthemic.com/2009/06/18/java-interview-puzzler/ I just returned home from a week in San Francisco at the JavaOne conference, I mean literally like 2 hours ago. This is the first time I've been to any conference like this, and I had a great time! The scale of this thing is really impressive, I ... http://hashbrownonthemic.com/2009/06/05/my-week-at-javaone/ Update: Some comments were mysteriously deleted, sorry if yours is not appearing, thanks for commenting though! One person responded that they needed to install the XCode tools first. I think they were building or upgrading ruby (which I didn't do). There are certainly no issues with doing this ... http://hashbrownonthemic.com/2009/04/19/installing-rails-mysql-on-mac-leopard/ But I did just buy my first one. After a lifetime spent mastering windows, I never had a desire for a mac, and the fact that all the cool kids were getting them, made one even less desirable. But lately I've wanted to get into some iphone development, and a ... http://hashbrownonthemic.com/2009/04/18/i-didnt-switch-to-macs/ http://lifehacker.com/5105351/fonolo-cuts-through-corporate-voicemail-treeshttp://lifehacker.com/tag/top http://funtasticus.com/20081013/space-mission-up-close-and-personal/http://funtasticus.com http://funtasticus.com/20081013/space-mission-up-close-and-personal/http://funtasticus.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_WyU4Eqsitw/http://www.techcrunch.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/eyWYQskgFZU/http://www.techcrunch.com