Monthly Archives: August 2010

Net Neutrality

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Kon

Recently a colleague sent me a link to an online petition regarding the concept of Net Neutrality being under threat by a recent deal between Verizon and Google.  http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=1234951 The dialog signals a prioritisation of internet traffic for the rich, … Continue reading →

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Reading Other Peoples & your own old code

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Kon

Old code is hard to read.  Even your own.  Its not uncommon 6 months down the track, to experience a bit of “what was I thinking when I wrote that?”.  Its one of the first things drummed into me by … Continue reading →

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Embedding Tomcat 7 in your App

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Kon

So what if you ship with a plain old Apache server just to run some aging PHP.  If you have an server app running all the time, according to this post, it looks like you can embed Tomcat, just like … Continue reading →

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Strings and intern

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Kon

Strings, yawn, boring.  They are kinda the bread and butter of our development but lets face it, we can take em for granted sometimes. So some neat tips from this blog post about Strings in Java. The most useful one … Continue reading →

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Facebook as a business platform

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Kon

I recently attended the Thoughtworks Quarterly Briefing which was about their Tech Radar – a whats hot in upcoming and existing software dev technologies.  One thing that came up as surprising was the idea of Facebook as a Business Platform.  … Continue reading →

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B12

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Kon

Short of B12? From: http://www.vegsoc.org/info/b12.html Human faeces can contain significant B12. A study has shown that a group of Iranian vegans obtained adequate B12 from unwashed vegetables which had been fertilised with human manure. Faecal contamination of vegetables and other … Continue reading →

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Legacy Java Systems

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Kon

I’ve had my fair share of working with legacy code.  I don’t think legacy code is a bad thing because its existence means it has addressed the majority of the needs of the business successfully enough to stay around.  However, … Continue reading →

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