Jeremy has done some nifty statistics on the read distribution of a typical JavaBlogs day. Not sure exactly how this is useful, but it sure is curvy!
Perhaps if it was cross referenced with some other measure of post quality, we could work out how good a metric reads is for quality?
Scott just pointed out to me that JavaLobby is now carrying the JavaBlogs popular entries feed on the front page.
Mighty amusing as the frontpage currently has my rumoured SARS outbreak on it!
Good on JavaLobby for putting it up anyway, should be good for JavaBlogs! (Although I fear it might pervert the daily rankings very badly!) Read more [...]
We came up with the best new IDEA shortcut today – CTRL-T. What does it do? Tests the current class or method. Simple, effective and devilishly useful for test driven development. One simple hotkey to test the current class or method depending on the current cursor position!
For reference, you find the Test option in the Other section of the Keymaps dialog. Read more [...]
Damnit – I was scooped by my own referrer logs.
Well, I checked mine this AM and saw that our old pal Mike Cannon-Brookes, a true rebelutionary is getting back into the swing of the blogging thing with a brand new blog.
Yes – I am indeed back and will hopefully be blogging with much more regularity. I feel I’ve been missing the ‘brain-fluff’ release that comes with just dumping thoughts to your blog to clear your head! I had not intended to be scooped in Read more [...]
I’m back! It’s good to be back. This time on Movable Type, on a new server, and with some funky new graphics.
After a long absense, I’ve finally got my blog back together – albeit at a totally different URL. Watch this space.
We’ve moved from Radio to MovableType with the wicked Textile plugin. I’m also using SmartyPants to provide “curly quotes” etc.
public boolean stupid() {
if (true true)
return true
return false
}
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