Monthly Archives: December 2006

IntelliJ short cut of the day

Just found this one by accident: ALT-HOME. It pops up a small context window that allows quick navigation within the project using a horizontal tree view. Very slick and takes up very little real-estate.

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Mr. Gosling – why did you make URL equals suck?!?

Okay, I’m totally hacked! java.net.URL class officially sucks! The equals method on this shining example of the JDK API mess actually does a blocking DNS lookup on the host string to resolve to an IP address and then compares the … Continue reading

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The importance of edge case testing

I went with my cousins to the Denver Parade of Lights on Saturday night and had an interesting run in with some technology there. We drove down because it was a bit cold outside and we didn’t want to wait … Continue reading

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