A good working environment

I like a good working environment. Don’t you?I’m not talking about the furniture in my office. Instead, I’m referring to how things are organized on my work machine. Do you ever have the feeling that your work is strewn all across the place, and you...

Linked Lists Are Patented – Now What?

If you follow twitter streams or check blogs, you may have noticed that linked lists are patented. If you read the patent itself, you can see that it was filed in 2002. Heard of the expression “prior art”? Well, let’s try this on for size: Java has a...

Please don’t say “don’t do that”

I have been digging for a couple of days on how to build a Scala List inside Java. The blog entries are hard to find. Most talk about converting a java.util.List into a Scala List from inside Scala. That is not what I’m looking for, but what really infuriated me...

JeOS, Oracle XE, and VMware – a redux

Today I have spent a fair amount of time setting up my own instance of Oracle XE in order to run down some customer issues and find an answer. A nicely written up blog entry from one of my co-workers has provided invaluable information…two years later!Of course,...