Wandering star
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Happy Programmer's Day
To all my fellow programmers: Happy Programmer's Day!
Everyone else: buy your favourite programmer a beer today!
/mike.
When exactly do you mean?
At Rasputina's annual show at Lee's Palace they pulled out a new cover I
hadn't heard before. Its effing sweet, so I recorded it .. mostly. It is sort clipping throughout, but I've heard worse :P.
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Wishful thinking
} catch(Exception e) {
// Any errors here should return null, where they will be handled gracefully by calling method
return null;
}/mike.
On syntax
"Syntax, folks, is religion, and Lisp is the wrong one." - Nickieben Bourbaki
/mike.Who is John Galt?
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." -- John Galt
/mike.
Things you didn't know about javaw.exe vs. java.exe
It has been awhile since I've graced the intertubes with my inane day-to-day life. Here is an obscure, but seemingly undocumented fact about a behavioural difference between java.exe and javaw.exe.
Many sites will tell you that the difference between java.exe and javaw.exe is that the former allocates a console window whereas the latter doesn't. This is certainly true, but there is more.
It turns out that with java.exe, if you try and write strings with international characters in them (e.g. こんにちは、世界！) to System.out, they all come out as ?s.
This seems to be the case regardless of what the file.encoding system property is set to, or the default console encoding of the OS. This is problematic when you are trying to read output from an international program through a pipe. You must use javaw.exe (and use a file.encoding that supports the characters you are printing) to get the goods.
Here's to hoping that one day, a search engine will find this page and someone experiencing the same problem is able to find it.
/mike.
Mmmmmmm. Lens flariness.
Doesn't it look warm?
Nope. It was rather cold actually. Morning sun is possibly one of the greatest motivators for getting up early.
/mike.
Michael Reid
I like to eat eat eat sushi and thai food.
