Posted in Software Development on July 28, 2006 | No Comments »
A special “Lunch with Kent Beck” event held in San Francisco on May 16, 2006. The talk was entitled “Ease at work”. A lot of issues stroked more than one chord with myself. Worth watching: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Posted in Tea on July 24, 2006 | No Comments »
This morning it’s been a cup of Java Green Tea. I have been a fan of iced green tea since the first time I tried it, some day during the last summer I believe, even if unfortunately it seems to be quite difficult to find around here. Never tried it hot, however: so, that cup [...]
Posted in Personal on July 22, 2006 | No Comments »
What video game character am I?
I am Mario.
I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren’t for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can’t stay out [...]
Posted in Books on July 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
More or less two months and three weeks ago, my birthday came, and a kind friend of mine decided to buy me a present from Amazon.co.uk. The gift box contained: Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion, which I could peruse a lot these days; The Blind Watchmaker, which I discovered by reading the last Douglas Adams [...]
Posted in Tools on July 14, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Curious Eclipse warning issues: on the one hand, the JDT keeps warning me about missing static final serialVersionUID field on Serializable classes, and I don’t even understand why that field should be added; on the other hand, if an argument to a method is not used in the method’s body, Eclipse does not issue any [...]
