Pages Tagged “Java”
Reviews
- The Trouble With Oracle I’ve disliked Oracle since they were trying to push thin clients and what we now call Software as a Service back in the 1990s. And they keep buying things I like or use, and messing them up.
Tech Tips
- Groovy, null, and ‘null’ Sometimes you get a null value, and sometimes you get the word null. Make sure it checks the one you expect!
- Java/Groovy Overloading and Null Parameters When you overload a Java method to accept different types of parameters, it can’t always determine which to call when one of the inputs is null. Here’s a hacky workaround.
- Java: Annotate Your Overrides Always use the Override annotation when you’re overriding a method, so the compiler will TELL you that you made a typo.
Blog Posts
- Up Late…
But I got the new printer set up on just about everything, and I bought and downloaded the latest Humble Bundle full of Java reference books, and I fixed the .htaccess on this site to force access over HTTPS. Regarding the printer: When CUPS works, it’s more or less automatic, and stays out of the […]
- Cross-browser Java Spyware
Talk about convoluted. Someone has developed a Java applet that will use one browser to install spyware on another. The applet runs in any browser using the Sun Java Runtime Environment—Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, etc.—and if it can convince you to run the installer, it will install spyware on Internet Explorer. And since you can’t remove […]