September 3, 2009 – 18:45
So every year I learn a new language. It’s fun, insightful and leaves me feelin’ a fresh for new challenges in my new found religion.
This time round I’ve been learning Common LISP and now Scala. Being a Java programmer professionally it makes sense to try the latter. I love the idea of it being its [...]
November 30, 2008 – 21:49
I came across the need to disable logging (debug) for a specific package in Apache Log4j today whilst coding. It’s simple. All you need to do is precede the package name, e.g. net.beplacid, with log4j.logger and follow that with “=LEVEL”, where ‘level’ is one of TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR and FATAL – the standard [...]
September 6, 2008 – 22:33
jQuery is a good thing. It allows you to minimise the amount of Javascript you write, while maintaining elegance and ease-of-use. jQuery.com has recently relaunched with a brand-new design. Feedback from around the web was initially quite negative due to a bizarre decision by someone who thought it’d be great to apply a ‘rockstar’ ethos [...]
Some time ago, I began hacking away at a simple API (Application Programming Interface) for Eternal Lands written in Python. I intended to write something that was quick and concise, and that would be easy to reuse. Using a typical OO approach, I finally came up with ‘Pyela – Python Eternal Lands API’.
Pyela is an [...]
The latest project at work is using a service tier setup. We have the web front-end that’s using Struts 1.2 (yes, old!), Weblogic 9.2, Apache Axis 1.3, JSON & jQuery. The back-end web services are written in .Net (and how difficult it seems to be for developers to work in .Net). Things at least work, [...]
September 3, 2007 – 15:42
I’ve been a professional programmer for over three years now. I have worked on projects both large and small, ranging from Java Web Services to Perl-CGI, J2EE web sites and JavaScript prototyping. I can say that i’m experienced enough to know how to approach most aspects of the programming-industry and work related issues. This [...]
