Archive for July, 2004

Saturday, July 17th, 2004

A Case for Racial Profiling

Annie Jacobsen has shared an absolutely chilling account of happenings on
Northwest flight #327 with Women’s Wall Street online.

No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by dkaz

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

Windows 95…It was just a matter of time

Here’s a quote I ran into in the MySQL documentation.
I can’t believe I actually owned a box with 95 on it…
Windows 95 leaks about 200 bytes of main memory for each thread creation

2 Comments » - Posted in Technology, Windows by dkaz

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

JavaOne Corollary #1: FindBugs and Defensive Programming

“We even found a bug in Josh Bloch’s code” - Dave Hovermeyer
“In fact, that very bug is one of the ones that Josh explicitly warns against in
his book” - Bill Pugh

Genuinly impressed by Dave Hovermeyer’s/Bill Pugh’s JavaOne session
describing U. of Maryland’s FindBugs static code analysis tool, I have
begun to look into ways of inserting it […]

No Comments » - Posted in Java by dkaz