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Requisite Moose

This page exists purely so that Kennith has to listen to my recommendations.

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John Statistics

Fact One) Is John failing fast? Yes. Fact Two) 84% of all Johns make up unreliable statistics.

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Lunar Rander

lunar-rander Hate long intros? Try it here. Uses arrow keys to navigate on desktop, and phone rotation / touch to navigate on mobile. It’s just like Lunar lander (well, not really, kinda an arm-length estimate), but on the surface of the

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IntelliJ Plugin Development – “Already running” error

These things are really hard to google, so hopefully this helps someone sometime. You’re creating a plugin, but when you launch it (as the new IntelliJ with the plugin installed launches), instead of a glorious splash screen you see a

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Strange days indeed.

All of these screenshots came from their legitimate, verified Twitter accounts. Wowser.  

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Four Errors and a Funeral

The story so far… The integration framework went live, along with a little catch-all for errors that would store what the error was, and what we were trying to integrate with when it happened. A tiny (hideous) dashboard was thrown

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LazyFx – quick JavaFx forms

Introduction JavaFx, although being far from perfect (whyyyy all those -fx prefixed “css” properties?) is definitely better than any of the previous attempts at Java desktop apps. Historically, Java has always put the “ewwwy” in GUI, and the incredibly programmatic

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ANT API – JAVA_HOME and non-standard build files

Introduction I’ve been working with the ANT API whilst putting together a build tool (long story) recently. There isn’t a whole lot of documentation available on the ‘net (in fact, there’s explicitly little documentation in cases),  so here are two

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Quartz CRON expressions vs CRON expressions

Introduction CRON expressions are terrifyingly powerful – especially when you first start to pick them up. Once you’ve gotten the hang of them, you’re in a position to – unashamedly – weep when you realize that there are a couple

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Greetings

Let’s not pretend here. I just needed a post to fill in the recent post boxes widget. We’ll try be, above all, practical here.

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