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Monthly Archives: August 2013

Toward a vision of Sustainable Server Programming

Saturday, August 31, 2013

For a number of years I’ve been thinking that I should write down some of the ideas I’ve had and lessons I’ve learned over way too many years banging on a keyboard. In my head this has has always been centered around the vague label “sustainable server development”. Let me try to peel away some […]

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Amazon SWF, aspectj-maven-plugin and JaCoCo

Friday, August 2, 2013

Which could be subtitled as “6+ hours of my life I will never get back”. I’m leaving this here in case someone else finds it useful. The short story is thus: I’m working on a product using the Amazon Flow SDK, writing in Eclipse under Java 7. We use Maven and JaCoCo, and believe in […]

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Eclipse, how I loathe thee

Thursday, August 1, 2013

For something which is theoretically the industry standard, Eclipse remains profoundly buggy and unstable. Of course, the argument is that the reason the user experience is a nightmare of crashes and weird behaviour is that it’s the plugins that are broken, but that’s kind of like saying a car is substandard only because it has […]

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