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Published: 5:07 PM GMT+12, Wednesday, 14 July 2004
- Helpfull regex of the day: service=(?!"Auction")"(.*)" - Search for all occurances of service="xxx" where xxx is NOT Auction. That certainly helped searching for invalid data in a large XML file I was just editing.
- Sick of "sealed" or "final" classes in Java projects causing you
pain? Why - just hack
the buggers into submission. Personally, this method of brute
forcing bastardization of upstream code is more evil than having them
final in the first place. No wonder the Smalltalkers
laught at me.
- Get romantic with inner classes - interesting, and amusing article on the use of inner classes.
- The New Zealand Herald seems to have pulled another article off their website, entitled "Youth charged over stamp mans car". The article appeared in my RSS feed but subsequently has dissapeared before I could read it. This is the second time I found articles appear and dissapear before I can read them. Mmmm.
- comp.lang.java.announce
pointed me over to the ActiveBPEL
project, an open source inplementation of the Business Process
Execution Language. I've seen BPEL mentioned around the place but
havn't really looked at it. The ActiveBPEL site also mentions Active
Web Flow, an Eclipse based
plugin for designing BPEL based processes.
- A friend's heading over the US so I thought I'd check out prices of compact flash cards, darn those 2.2Gb's are getting cheap.
- Via scripting news I find
that Oracle have been awarded a patent on content management
systems - wtf? Someone better tell Ward Cunningham that
be didn't invent the wiki.