Author Archives: Mathias

About Mathias

Software development engineer. Principal developer of DrJava. Recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Computer Science at Rice University.

It’s Not Warm on Mt. Rainier

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Mathias

I wanted to check if I could squeeze another weekend of camping in this year, so I went to weather.com and typed in Mt. Rainier. It looked great: 23 Celsius on Saturday (73 Fahrenheit). That did seem a bit odd, … Continue reading →

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Better Number Highlighting in DrJava More Difficult

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Mathias

Getting the lexing right for the syntax highlighting will be a little bit more work than I thought. Right now, DrJava tokenizes numbers like 3.14 separately as “3″ “.” “14″, and then it highlights “3″ and “14″ as numbers. That … Continue reading →

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Additional Java 5 Syntax Highlighting Errors in DrJava

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Mathias

While adding syntax highlighting for underscores and binary literals introduced in Java 7 to DrJava, I discovered that a few other numbers aren’t syntax-highlighted correctly. Some of these problems go back to the beginning of Java, others go back to … Continue reading →

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Lost My Phone

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Mathias

I lost my phone on the bus this morning. I stepped off the bus, went into a store, realized my phone wasn’t in my pocket, turned around and saw the bus drive away. Shoot. I immediately changed my Google password, … Continue reading →

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Three Logicians Walk into a Bar

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Mathias

I love it. This came to me from Spiked Math by way of Language Log, one of my long-time favorite nerdy blogs.

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Registered for SPLASH 2011

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Mathias

Last night, I registered for SPLASH 2011. I’ll only be there for the Educators Symposium and the Tuesday conference sessions, though. It was a bit of a tough call, but I figured taking vacation days for something I’m still passionate … Continue reading →

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Dissertation and Numbers

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Mathias

I received the bound copies of my dissertation yesterday. They look nice, but they’re kind of thin, for so much work. Including front matter, there are 157 pages. Some more numbers: The source code for my dissertation project has 35,979 … Continue reading →

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No More NDR2 Streaming Radio?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Mathias

A few days ago, something really bad happened. The live stream of my favorite radio station, NDR2 from Hamburg, Germany, stopped working for me. For the last few years, NDR2 has been the music I listen to, when I’m at … Continue reading →

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Suggestions for Better Java 7 Support in DrJava

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Mathias

I just looked through the new language features in Java 7, and experimented with them in DrJava. None of the changes are supported in the Interactions Pane, and there will be a lot of required work to make these things … Continue reading →

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Presidential Active Lifestyle Award

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Mathias

I just completed the PALA challenge: Five days of exercising at least 30 minutes, for six out of eight weeks. I’ve run about 72 miles (115 km), biked several times, and I’ve zumba-ed (if you just look at the instructor, … Continue reading →

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FedEx Nightmare Ended, Setting Up Quad-Core Desktop

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Mathias

My FedEx nightmare ended. The package was found at a warehouse and then delivered to the FedEx store where I had requested it to be held. One thing that worried me a little was that it was listed as “Delivered, … Continue reading →

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FedEx Horror, Continued

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Mathias

I got an encouraging email from Dell today. Apparently, someone at Dell had talked to FedEx, and they said my package is ready for pickup at the store. Unfortunately, I just talked to the FedEx store where the package is … Continue reading →

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FedEx Lost My $1500 Package from Dell

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Mathias

I ordered a new computer from Dell a couple of weeks ago, and it was supposed to be delivered yesterday. I work, you know, so I wasn’t here when FedEx attempted to deliver it. And because it’s a pricey item, … Continue reading →

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New DrJava Beta Release: drjava-beta-20110822-r5448

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Mathias

We have made a new development release available: drjava-beta-20110822-r5448. You can download it from the DrJava website or from SourceForge. Available for download at http://drjava.org. DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. It … Continue reading →

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DrJava Now Works Even When Launched with the Java 7 JRE

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Mathias

I think I’ve got DrJava working with the Java 7 compiler the way it should, even when started with the JRE (as long as the JDK is installed as well). That was the situation that both Corky and I got … Continue reading →

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ACM Membership Certificate

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Mathias

I received a certificate from the ACM today. “This is to certify that, having fulfilled the requirements for professional membership,” I am admitted into the Association for Computing Machinery. Why yes, I really did pay that membership fee. Which is … Continue reading →

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PPPJ 2011 Program is Up

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Mathias

The program for PPPJ 2011 is available now. Of course I am excited about the Habanero Java and DrHabanero papers from Rice, but the University of Lugano paper Portable and Accurate Collection of Calling-Context-Sensitive Bytecode Metrics for the Java Virtual … Continue reading →

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Java 7 for DrJava and Concutest

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Mathias

I worked on Java 7 support this weekend, and I’m almost done. I just discovered that Concutest is currently incompatible with Java 7, though, so I will need to disable the ConcJUnit option in DrJava when using Java 7. I … Continue reading →

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Yes, DrJava Works under Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Mathias

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7, and DrJava works flawlessly. The one vague report that someone had filed therefore proved to be wrong. When I started DrJava the first time, Mac OS X asked me if I wanted … Continue reading →

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Summer in Seattle

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Mathias

A radio station here in Seattle (I believe it KOMO News) had checked how many minutes of summer Seattle had so far in 2011. They defined summer as 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 C) and no rain. Guess how many? 70 … Continue reading →

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