smallwig

Personal ramblings of Kevin Bourrillion, senior software engineer at Google, Inc.

No, my opinions as expressed in this blog are not those of my employer. They're mine alone. That's why they're called "my opinions." Helloooo.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Understanding CLS

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This post is about all of us helping each other to understand CLS. CLS is an acronym for "Class Loader Stuff." Man, I just really...
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Value objects WTF!!?!!2!

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You might recall that here at the smallwig we recently, geologically speaking, discussed the interesting and important topic of how to model...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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We're a spotlight feature on JavaLobby today!
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Monday, October 22, 2007

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Collections update: I've integrated more stuff out to subversion (including a big ol' rewrite of the Preconditions class) and I'...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

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I got a kick out of this observation from Jesse : Here's my two problems with using it [the assert keyword] for business logic: it can ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

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Boy, I sure am getting in some trouble for leaving that teaser post on value objects and never coming back to it! That should teach me a le...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

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Of course, everyone keeps asking me how much I decided to pay for In Rainbows . They ask me since, well, I love Radiohead enough that, from ...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Value objects WTF!!?!!1!

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Hmm. I just might try my hand at this "blogging" thing after all. So here's something that has me really mystified about Java...
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Coupling

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Update: a crack team of Googlers who constitute the most powery of our Guice power users have assembled a few times now to hash out the desi...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

So I went to the new Rasputin...

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So I went to the new Rasputin that replaced Tower Records at El Camino and San Antonio, because I had to get the new Elliott Smith double al...
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Friday, June 8, 2007

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There's something fundamentally weird about LinkedHashSet, isn't there? You use it when you want to have a guaranteed order of itera...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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Roger Ebert is so awesome.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

It was easier than I thought

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I wanted a way to distribute JUnit tests among multiple threads. I couldn't believe how easy it turned out to be. public class Paralle...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

by the way, what does 'extraordinarily typesafe' mean?

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I was feeling pretty proud about Guice . It went 1.0 last week and has been making the rounds in the blogosphere the last few days; it seem...
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Friday, March 9, 2007

This is a blog.

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I might start blogging again. I used to blog a ton back in 2001-2004. But, I had the benefit of a job that thoroughly bored me -- and ther...
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