Category Archives: Ramblings

Ramblings of a somewhat more personal nature.

Confusing Hudson Test Failure

After moving our Hudson server to a new server, we started to experience a very confusing test failure in the Java Language Levels module. The test that failed was AdvancedLevelTest.testShouldBeErrors. It compiles the files in javalanglevels/testFiles/forAdvancedLevelTest/shouldBreak/ and makes sure that … Continue reading

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Goodbye Computer Shopper, Hello Esquire?

Please be advised that Computer Shopper magazine has ceased publication after the April 2009 issue. [...] Special arrangements have been made with Esquire magazine to service your subscription for its full remaining term. You will receive three issues of Esquire … Continue reading

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Musings about Facebook Application Privacy

After reading the ACLU’s report about Facebook app privacy problems and taking the quiz demonstrating them, What Do Quizzes Really Know About You?, I was a little upset at first. The privacy settings just seemed completely insane. Let’s use one’s … Continue reading

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DrJava with Mint on Mac “Cosmetically” Closer

Sweet! DrJava with Mint on the Mac just came within reach, or at least as close as it is on the other operating systems. For some reason, when I ran DrJava under Soylatte and X11 earlier, no compilers showed up. … Continue reading

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Mint in DrJava is Tricky

I’ve been trying to get the Mint compiler to work inside DrJava. This has turned out to be more tricky than I thought. The preempting class loader that we use to load different compiler adapters is still giving me headaches, … Continue reading

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SourceForge Subversion Problems

Corky and I are having problems on the CSnet ma…

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Academia.edu and Publications Category

A few days ago, I got an email from Academia.ed…

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Sometimes I feel really dumb

I was reading this MixGen paper, and I came acr…

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volatile For Synchronizing non-volatile Data

Jevgeni Kabanov on dow.ngra.de made an interes…

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Mixed Bag

This post is just a mixed bag of things. First,…

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Re: Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?

Joey Gibson expresses exactly how I feel. I lov…

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Bad Shortcuts

Sometimes, trying to take a shortcut can make y…

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Symphony and Exams

Yesterday, I finally went to the first symphony…

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SourceForge Removes Shell Access, Becomes Terrible Mess

SourceForge is a terrible mess now. The old and…

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Grad Students Not Assisted During Ike

My letter to the editor of The Thresher was pri…

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Two Weeks, Gone With The Wind

It’s hard to believe that two weeks have truly …

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“I’m there to learn and not them, morality can go shove it”

This doesn’t fit with anything really except th…

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One DrJava Fix, Lots of COMP 202 Issues

I fixed one issue that had come up again: Compe…

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Is It Safe?

For the last couple of days I have been contemp…

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Streams of Irony

As I’ve mentioned before, I seem to have proble…

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