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Just passed the ‘Java 5 New Language Features’ exam on java blackbelt. Exams are becoming expensive! Costed me 12 piggies… But good to exercise java 5 stuff. Although the questions are good they are a bit easier (mostly due to being more focussed, not putting in unexpected null-pointers etc) then the questions I’m studying for […]

My wife doesn't really like coding, she can find her way around HTML, CSS en some Javascript... but only if I really don't feel like doing it for her. Can't blame her, she is a designer.
She does however like making puzzles, specifically numerical puzzles like sudoku.
While preparing for the upcoming exam I stumbled over the [...]

Today I talked to arjan about the wordpress setup used for the company blog. I welcome the addition of the blog for sharing knowlegde with the community. One thing I noticed was the well looking syntax...
Arjan told me this was done by using the IG Syntax Hiliter using some custom modifications by Erik.
I installed the [...]

Last friday the guy behind the twinview setup on the desk in front of me tipped me on named pipes. Bash uses named pipes in a really neat way. When you enclose a command in parenthesis, the command is actually run in a subshell; that is, the shell clones itself and the clone interprets the [...]

In the weeks just before Sjoerd was born I ordered the geekiest thing I ever ordered in my entire live: the ubuntu creeper. I ordered the smallest size, but it took Sjoerd 8 months, 1 week and 5 days to grow into it. But here it is!

Looking at him like this takes me being [...]

Yesterday we had a discussion on the way java's synchronized keyword behaves when used on method level.
I'm not shure why but somehow I expected instance variables to be automagically synchronized/locked when a thread is inside a synchronized method.
Consider the following example:

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JAVA:

class MyObject{

  int i = 0;

  public void incr(){

    i++;

  }

  public synchronized [...]

While looking at the pictures I took while cooking some shrimps on my BBQ I discovered a wonderfull close-up, which I used in the header above... Not really shure if it will stay on for long, but I think it has got a nice summer feel to it!

Today the mailman brought me my voucher to attend the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam. After three years of saying "I'll take it as soon as I have spare time" I finally decided to just pick a date...

Yesterday Maarten (aka Slemper) finally came to visit Sjoerd! A good reason to try out my new BBQ. Maarten is one of the few people I actually know by person (we made lots of music together during our first years at the HKU) which is also featured in the project I'm working on (revamping the [...]

Testing your website for browser compatibility is a tedious job. Most projects don't have budget to test on to many browsers. A good tool to at least have an idea of how a pages looks in the different browsers is http://v03.browsershots.org/
The only actions needed to test your pages are:

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