Old Code
I recently purchased one of those ‘C64 mini‘ devices. It’s quite amazing and very slick in how I can use USB and HDMI with such an ancient piece of technology. As you can imagine, it...
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Screen Scraping
Screen scraping: it’s one of those things that we all do, but no one likes to admit to. That reminds me of something else that I can’t quite put my hand on… I did my first screen scr...
Prioritizing Properties Files when Bridging Camel and Spring
Last week I blogged about prioritizing properties files as they are loaded by Apache Camel in the camel-context.xml. But this will not work if you use the BridgePropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to bridge...
Specifying A Priority Order of Properties Files in camel-context.xml
Apache Camel allows you to specify multiple properties files in camel-context.xml by separating them with a comma: <propertyPlaceholder id="properties" location="file:/etc/configmap/app.properties,...
Progress
Here is a succession of screenshots from my upcoming game, Hockey Brass: The oldest screenshot, from November 2011, or as my brother said, ‘it looks like 1993 threw up on your computer’: A...
NHL Simulation 2017-2018
With my NHL simulator, Hockey Brass (more on that in an upcoming post), I ran the 2017-2018 season to see what might feasibly happen. Here’s what came out of it. The big stories are a Montreal-T...
Well ‘That’ Won’t Scale
If you have been around the industry for a year or more, you’ve almost undoubtedly heard someone talk about scale. Perhaps they have said, ‘that feature won’t scale’, or ‘...
Trunk and Branches
I know what you’re thinking. He’s writing a post about revision control: SVN, Git, etc. Nope. This post is all about training and education. More specifically, I’m talking about what...
Estimates Redux!
My thinking on giving software estimates has evolved a little. I still believe that exponential estimates are the right way to go. (In fact, someone pointed out there is already a name for something v...
Real World Data
When you’re developing an application, it can sometimes be difficult to get data from the real world that matches your data model. Instead, all you are given is a schema or spec for that data an...