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It’s a simple head code: anyone can catch it

February 17th, 2010 · Comments Off

What you always knew happened in the dealership

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Tags: Code · Nonsense

More news!

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A colleague and I have just confirmed our slot at QCon, speaking on our experience with implementing architectures in the real world. I find this terribly exciting. Others will find it either incomprehensible or deeply dull: my friends, I love you, but it’s your loss

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Funny ha-ha…

January 13th, 2008 · Comments Off

It was put to me this week that I should, as it were, expose myself publicly as part of a strategy to generate wealth through humour. Whilst I accept I do, from time to time, prompt fits of incontinent laughter on the part of those around me, I couldn’t help but compare it to the [...]

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TwoPhase SchmooPhase

November 15th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Also… spent ages looking at my app server today wondering why it suddenly refused to allow my EJBs access to other classes in the EAR. Turns out I may have to go scour the logs for a BEA-149316, which is the code weblogic puts out when it decides you’ve not assembled your EAR properly, so [...]

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Failing to fail

September 18th, 2006 · Comments Off

I do wonder sometimes whether IDEs ought to be withheld from programmers for a couple of weeks a year just to remind them to think — self included. That sounds rather harsher than I mean to be; sorry. The root cause is that I spent a good few minutes today reducing an (admittedly already overlarge) [...]

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