Blog

This is my personal blog, which you can see is almost completely dormant. Who knows, I may get active again in the future, but it’s unlikely. Just in-case, you can subscribe via RSS.

Posts:

• Using asdf to manage my development tools - 2023 Jan 12

• Using Finicky to handle URLs - 2023 Jan 3

• Switching to Mastodon - 2022 Dec 31

• Using Checkstyle to force the use of Java 8 lambdas - 2015 Sep 3

• Optus business processes are a farce! - 2015 Apr 10

• Optus cable internet is (so far) woeful! - 2015 Apr 8

• New Beginning! - 2014 Dec 14

• Groovy 2.0 not perfect (but still awesome) - 2012 Jul 3

• Ratcheting FindBugs errors with ANT - 2010 Dec 16

• SlickRun + AutoHotkey magic - 2010 Feb 23

• Poor man’s comparison of AV products - 2009 Sep 30

• Teach an old dog new tricks (or now using Classycle) - 2009 May 17

• Detecting Cycles with ANT/JDepend - 2009 May 12

• Books I have read so far this year - 2009 Feb 18

• 2009 - year of Twitter? - 2009 Jan 4

• JavaWorld has a couple of good articles on Checkstyle - 2008 Nov 25

• Oliver Burn in a fight…. - 2008 Nov 13

• Getting closure with Groovy curry - 2008 Sep 11

• Chrome Tip - 2008 Sep 5

• Continuous integration stack - 2008 Aug 18

• Checkstyle 5.0 beta 1 released - 2008 Jul 17

• Bash completion for Grails - 2008 May 26

• How I write Blog entries - 2008 Mar 31

• Checkstyle fast facts - 2008 Mar 13

• Pure ASCII - 2008 Mar 6

• Out of touch - 2008 Mar 5

• Lego Animated “Death Star Canteen” skit - 2008 Jan 7

• Checkstyle 4.4 & 5.x - 2007 Dec 19

• Funny desktop - 2007 Aug 20

• I am stumped - 2007 Jul 30

• Using Maven2 to generate an executable JAR - 2007 Jun 27

• My Firefox Add-ons and Themes - 2007 Apr 3

• Log4J burns me again - 2007 Mar 15

• Another productivity hit - 2007 Feb 14

• Back to my trusty Palm - 2006 Oct 30

• Clever trick for avoiding lost baggage - 2006 Sep 22

• From JBoss Rules to brainf*ck - 2006 Aug 23

• Behind The Code series - 2006 Aug 14

• Variable naming convention - 2006 Jul 25

• Improve Checkstyle To Scan C# - 2006 Jul 17

• Example of fine tuned suppressions - 2006 Jul 13

• Checkstyle 4.2 released - 2006 Jul 13

• Using Checkstyle to help with branching - 2006 Jul 4

• Weekends are for getting ahead - 2006 Feb 9

• What Do We Know - 2006 Feb 1

• Log4J hangs my application - 2006 Jan 24

• Checkstyle 4.0 released (at last!) - 2005 Nov 30

• One of Tomcat’s mysteries solved - 2005 Nov 1

• Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far - 2005 Oct 31

• State of the Onion - 2005 Oct 18

• Simulate @Override in JDK 1.4 - 2005 Oct 10

• Not keeping up with the Geeks - 2005 Sep 27

• Unit testing is a waste of time? - 2005 Jul 13

• Feeling jealous - 2005 Jul 5

• Click to it - 2005 Jul 5

• Triangle of truth - 2005 Jun 28

• Excellent Cheat Sheets - 2005 May 11

• Please respond ASAP (or how not to ask for help) - 2005 May 7

• Eclipse Checkstyle 4.0 Plugin - 2005 Apr 27

• You are not touching my machine! - 2005 Apr 26

• Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look - 2005 Apr 5

• Checkstyle 4 beta supports Java 5 - 2005 Mar 25

• Tools for managing digital photos - 2005 Jan 25

• All about final in Java - 2005 Jan 13

• [Humour] More sex than me - 2004 Dec 2

• Regular Expression Tester Applet - 2004 Nov 23

• My new favourite Java class - 2004 Nov 19

• Handy Bash Scripting Guide - 2004 Nov 15

• Correction: Eclipse Code Formatter is not lame - 2004 Nov 14

• Eclipse Code Formatter is lame - 2004 Nov 11

• It must just be me…… - 2004 Nov 8

• Patrick Kua gets it - 2004 Nov 6

• Checkstyle 3.5 released - 2004 Nov 6

• Running on bare metal - 2004 Nov 3

• FireFox Tip: Turn off image animations - 2004 Oct 31

• Firefox extensions I use - 2004 Oct 26

• Uniquely identifying a JVM instance - 2004 Oct 5

• Advertising the pain - 2004 Sep 21

• Just when you think you know Java… - 2004 Aug 19

• Talk about timing - 2004 Aug 17

• Code reviews in Eclipse - 2004 Aug 16

• Fancy Service pattern benefits - 2004 Aug 12

• ANTLR Grammar for Java 1.5 - 2004 Jul 20

• Resonating Blogs - 2004 Jun 20

• Checkstyle equivalent to PMD - 2004 Jun 5

• Chainsaw History - 2004 May 18

• Quick access to Javadoc - 2004 May 11

• Mars Pathfinder reset issue - 2004 Apr 27

• Checkstyle 3.4 released - 2004 Apr 24

• Amazing Story - 2004 Apr 23

• SOA - I smell dollars now - 2004 Apr 22

• Use JavaScript to block ads - 2004 Apr 2

• I love lime green - 2004 Mar 30

• This quote resonates - 2004 Jan 25

• Pasta for Spaghetti Code - 2004 Jan 25

• Still blogging….. - 2003 Sep 7

• I still use Emacs over jEdit - 2003 Jul 9

• Under-sell to over-deliver - 2003 Jul 2

• The Spud is getting active - 2003 Jun 23

• My daughter turned two - 2003 Jun 9

• Checkstyle, a victim of its early success - 2003 Jun 7

• A tenuous argument, but…. - 2003 Jun 5

• Using w.bloggar with freeroller - 2003 Jun 3

• I used the “old school way” - 2003 Jun 3

• HOWTO: FreeRoller comments - 2003 May 31

• Fight evil with the Metrics Plug-in for Eclipse - 2003 May 27

• Checkstyle 3.1 released - 2003 May 26