techno-fawce
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
SLOCCount is a utility for counting lines of code. The coolest part is it will count lines of anything -- java, c#, fortran, you name it.
Monday, July 19, 2004
ClassFinder is finally a way to interrogate the scads of jars used in a project. How many times have you had a class not found error and thought "What jar is that in?"
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The zipdecode by Ben Fry, despite his footnote disclaimers to the contrary, is a beautiful applet displaying zipcode distribution and organization in the US. A nifty random fact: The inventor of the zip code system was a woman from Tuxedo Park, NY, which sports the nifty code 10987. Also, 01776 is for Sudbury, MA. Which I believe must either include or irritate nearby Lexington, MA (seat of the American Revolution).
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Sun's Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) pages have some good reference documentation. The tutorial contains a trail that covers how objects can be stored in the JNDI tree. Other sources (like the O'Reilly J2EE nutshell book) do a better job on the overview (read: quicker), but this is the only source I've found that covers the serialization/reference details.
Monday, December 01, 2003
Maintaining a linux server entirely by RPM can be quite a hassle if you want to use source releases. It's not that hard to make an rpm, but why bother when someone more competent has already done it: DAG: RPM Packages
