Monthly Archives: March 2008

Today I accepted a job offer to work in a finance firm as an in-house software developer in VB.NET and SQL.  I’ve never had anything against Microsoft’s .NET technologies (or languages), however, I’ll always stand by the "it’s nothing new" … Continue reading →

In the great wide expanse of software there exists a feature which is common to a large proportion of software products, something which you never notice yet your eyes are a victim of its look, and its feel.  Without this … Continue reading →

This afternoon I was given the chance to show off my final year project in its current state.  There were far more people than I expected, there were more people than I could actually talk to but fortunately a lot … Continue reading →

I watch quite a few videos on the Internet, but this one had me in hysterics, and I don’t usually laugh out loud to videos posted on the Internet, no matter how funny they are. Death Metal Puppy – Watch … Continue reading →

I spend about ten hours a day coding, primarily in Java.  Ten hours is enough to give me a headache, but ten hours of getting literally nowhere is a migraine.  This stressed me out enough last night to just give … Continue reading →

As I’ve now decided to go ahead and use Serialization in my application and differentiating the data by giving leading bits indicating what type of data is about to come in I am now using ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream.  This application … Continue reading →

I recently found an article over at Coding Horror describing some shareware which was not being entirely ethical with its approach to achieving a certain task.  Sure enough I own a GMail account and use it for all of my … Continue reading →