Just when I thought my problem was all nice and resolved, a nice visitor by the name of Doug drops Retroweaver in my lap.
“Are you a Java developer who’s excited about the new JDK 1.5 language features?”
Yes.
“Does your heart race when you think about generics and parametric polymorphism?”
I admit nothing!
“Do extended for loops make you [...]

In the documentation for the java.lang.System class:
“Differences in successive calls that span greater than approximately 292 years (263 nanoseconds) will not accurately compute elapsed time due to numerical overflow.”
I can’t believe a limitation of this magnitude is allowed to stand!
*disclaimer: I leeched this from “kirk’s blog”

I’m currently in the process of working on project aardvark (don’t ask me, I probably won’t tell you) and I’m coming to the point where coding is about to begin. My problem is that I really want to get down and dirty with JDK 1.5 (sorry, 5.0) and in particular: type-safe enum’s, generic’s and autoboxing/unboxing. [...]

I think I have blogged out the MIT open courseware site before, if not, it is the online place where MIT are publishing all of their curriculum (with the intent of having everything there by 2007). I went wandering through the computer science section today and I must say this: they really know how to [...]

Well, I believe a good day was had by all. Despite not being able to get on the booze in a manner I would have liked due to illness the others certainly made up for me. Our bathtub was filled at the beginning of the day and a quick count finds only four remaining stubbies [...]