It’s that time of the year again -- another year has passed, and as usual, I don’t finish reflecting on it until the first 3 months of the following year have gone by.

>>> How did I do in 2012?

• Make my hands pain-free. I’m not totally pain-free, but I’m close enough that I’m willing to call this one “done”. I can accomplish all my daily tasks ( Read more... )

In one of my (Java) projects at work, we have an interface which represents the contents of a "savable window", which can be modified by the user, and where changes should be saved back to the underlying object when the user is done (usually indicated via an "OK" button).

The (vastly simplified) implementation looks like this:

/** Contains all ( Read more... )

So I've decided that both PHP and Python have made my list of bad/annoying programming languages.

>>> PHP

PHP was actually on it before, but this just confirms what I already knew -- PHP is a badly-insecure language. As such, it does not belong in the web programming space. Security is a huge issue, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will ( Read more... )

[MLP, for those who don't know, stands for Mindless Link Propagation.]

JWZ has an interesting paper on his website titled Java Sucks. I don't agree with everything he says (nor do I have time now to go through it point-by-point), but it's worth a read.

-- Des
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Grrrr. Java is a shitty, shitty language that wasn't properly thought-through by its developers. Now that I'm programming in it 8 hours a day, I'm only beginning to truly appreciate this ( Read more... )