Author Archives: Jay

equals and hashCode via syntactic-sugar (AKA JDK-1.5 features)

Some classes we make may require a proper hashCode and equals method written. Especially if they will be placed in a Collection. Before, when a person who was too “lazy” (or as I like to call it, being a genius) … Continue reading

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Funny story…

Yesterday afternoon, my company sent out yet another reminder for everyone to dress up. Ya know, throw on a nice(r) shirt, if ya can wear a tie. We had prospective clients coming by, and we wanted to impress them. Fine. … Continue reading

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U.N. — Peaceful Force?

The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict has produced nothing but destruction and death for both sides. It would be pretentious to attempt an explanation of the conflict: too many facets beyond the understanding of even the conflict participants. Here’s one positive thing: the … Continue reading

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Hey, did you know…

The seven seas is a way of saying the entire world. At one point, the seven named seas were the known world (at least to users of the phrase). Check it out: http://www.whoi.edu/info/seven-seas.html

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JSR 303 – Bean Validation

JSR 303 seeks to define a meta-data model and API for JavaBean validation. “This API is seen as a general extension to the JavaBeans object model, and as such is expected to be used as a core component in other … Continue reading

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Some people do know what do to with their money

Buffett calls wealth giveaway ‘logical’ Buffett will slowly give 85% of his wealth to charities, incluidng his daughter’s (the Susan A. Buffett’s foundation) and the Bill and Melida Gates’ foundation. Previously, Buffett planned on dividing and distributing his wealth personally, … Continue reading

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Great post

How to be a Junior Developer Forever: part 1 I thought it was right on the money… If you want to grow, ya might want to read an API or man page once in a while.

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Some Justice… it’s better than nothing

Finally, some justice for the people who hitched their financial futures to the Enron bandwagon. Now all we need to do is write a law for price gauging; then we can deal with these oil execs! 😉

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Honda Accord

Got this from a co-worker. Just another reason why the Honda Accord is the best car arround… http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php

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Yeah, that’s nice…

Umm, and sometimes you die of a heart attack. Please note, the CEO is obese, or as I like to call it, round-muscled. I’d like to believe that round-muscled people tend to be better CEO’s. Just look at Microsoft… exactly.

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