I have 2 trips and a lot of work this week, but the biggest challenge is going to be to turn the object above into a piñata of a purse. Right now it looks like a dino egg wrapped in newspaper but this is how it starts (well, this one started as a ballon …). [...]
Filed under: Art, Family on January 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
Elliotte writes that Java doesn’t need properties. I sort of agree, there’s nothing inherently wrong with get/set methods, specially if you have a good IDE to automate that task for you. On the other hand, I don’t see how adding support for this feature, probably inspired as a reaction to C#, really hurts the language.
Nobody [...]
Filed under: Java on January 26th, 2007 | No Comments »
Roxana;
Thank you for 8 wonderful years of marriage. Thank you for your love, your friendship and our wonderful family. Thank you for being such a great wife, and being my best friend.
Con mucho amor,
Augusto
Filed under: Family on January 23rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just got a jury summons for February 26, 2007. This is the second one I ever get, but I was never able to make it to the first one. Before becoming a US citizen, this was one of those things on my “to do” list (number one was voting) so I’m pretty happy to have [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 22nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is the first entry on a category I’d like to name “Code bloopers”. I recently got a message about a piece of code that was throwing a null pointer, it was basically of this form:
synchronized(this.foobar)
This is an easy one. If you think it’s because “this” is null, you have to go back to [...]
Filed under: Code Bloopers, Java, Software Development on January 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
First post!
Well I installed WordPress a long time ago, so I figured I had to start posting ONE day, and that day is today. The next step is to customize WordPress to my liking and to integrate my gallery with the blog.
But for now, “hello world” and I hope to be able to write [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
