Chaotic Java

Testing Firewall

Aviad — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:46:59 +0000

It’s been about half a year since development started on Firewall, my very own game, and after some private testing its time to give it a bit of an extra push. I invite anyone to help test it before it’s launched; so please do! Testing is done via TestFlight, so go to the landing page [...]

Avoiding getter and setter pairs in GWT’s RequestFactory

Aviad — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:40:16 +0000

GWT (Google web toolkit) is a great development toolkit for web applications. I’ve been following it for a white now (including two somehwat popular posts about drag and drop and about enums, back when those weren’t so popular..) and it keeps getting better and better. Recently, in version 2.1, they’ve added something called the RequestFactory, [...]

State of the Chaos 06-11

Aviad — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:42:44 +0000

It’s been a while, and some might be wondering what I’ve been up to. Well, I have to say that work has been a bit tiring for sure; had many stressful deadlines for a long time now and while I never stopped having ideas for the Chaotic Java and never stopped writing them down, making [...]

Tweaking the producer-consumer model

Aviad — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:53:49 +0000

The makes a few assumptions in order to work. In this post I’ll discuss some of these assumptions, what happens when they break, and a cool solution to deal with it. The two assumptions I’d like to discuss are: "All producers are equal" and "Once sent to the queue, a producer doesn’t care about its products".

The @Optional interface method

Aviad — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:09:52 +0000

Working a bit with Objective-C recently in my spare time, I’ve noticed they introduced something to the Objective-C Protocol declaration, which is the ability to specify that certain methods in a protocol1 are optional for implementation. I could think of more than one occasion where I could have used it, and even on JDK interfaces [...]

Blog back online!

Aviad — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:23:47 +0000

After some time the blog has failed to load for the most of you, I finally got to put it back together. Somehow the .htaccess files went all wrong… I suspect a certain WordPress plugin for damaging it so. Sorry for the time-out, and hopefully now that I have some spare time (a few minutes [...]

Friends, Connect!

Aviad — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:50:33 +0000

I do know many come to Chaotic Java from Google, referring to it when needed if CJ has a popular answer on a certain topic. However, I really liked posts like the "IDE Wars" post, where people started a discussion in the comments area - it was something. That's why I tried having an IRC day/week - which was fun but attracted only a couple of people.

Revival of the Yielder project?

Aviad — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:17:00 +0000

After not touching the yielder project for a long time, I decided to go back and make the change I knew I needed but feared of doing and fix the yielder project.

Simple solution to resource collection

Aviad — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:24:24 +0000

It’s called garbage collection, not resource collection! Java’s garbage collector has made life so easy for us developers that we sometimes confuse between deleting a reference, i.e. a task the GC does, and releasing a resource – a task the GC doesn’t do. That’s because the GC does something else for us called object finalization, [...]

Java Logger Memory Leaks

Aviad — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:13:52 +0000

Recently we switched from Log4J to the java.util.logger package (for this entry it will be called the “Java Logger”). Why, you might wonder, and I don’t have a good reason to give other than the illusion the Java Logger package gives as being more standard. I would like to stress the word illusion for a [...]