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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, where [...]

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 [...]

The quiet revolution – Part I: JSR 296

Aviad — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:32:16 +0000

JSR 296 brings a "Swing for the rest of us" approach for Swing application development.

Jsr-292’s first draft – a late review

Aviad — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:51:08 +0000

Being fashionably late as always, I read the JSR-292's early draft and had some comments on it

IO performance – Tar vs. File vs. Byte streams

Aviad — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:12:48 +0000

One of the most classic patterns in software is the producer-consumer pattern. There is a module producing data, and a module reading it for further processing. Moreover, in order to achieve better performance, usually there are many consumer modules running on many different threads while the producer (or several producers) run on its own thread. [...]

Project Darkstar, Unit Testing and Mock objects

Aviad — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:16:02 +0000

Ever since I started using TDD (test driven development) methods in my work, I never stopped. I rarely start a project without knowing how I’ll test it, and not just in Java: C#, Objective-C, and Python as well. I’ve found that TDD can be done in the most unlikely places, such as servlets using Cactus [...]

Build.xml generator for Eclipse

Aviad — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:01:22 +0000

Know the feeling when you’re just about to release code to the public’s eye, and all you need to do is write that pesky build file? Even as I write it I feel it’s an understatement: the task of creating an ant build file can take a few good days out of anyone’s life, and even [...]