I just discovered that Checkstyle doesn’t (yet) support Java 1.5. I found myself shocked by this for some reason; the Checkstyle project is such an active and evolving one that I just didn’t think they wouldn’t have put in some 1.5 support yet.
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I’m down with the ‘flu today, so I thought I’d do something to take my mind off it and check out Maven I’ve been somewhat critical of Maven in the past, but only tentatively as I’ve never really played with it. So I thought I’d rectify that.
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Saw this article in the Sydney Morning Herald. Bloody excellent idea.
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Why did I rabbit on about the Liskov Substitution Principle anyway? Because the infamous RemoteException is an example of the issue.
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Update: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Seriously. 😉 It turns out that the <ant> task effectively sets the basedir property as a user-property, which means that it can’t be changed. User-properties are propogated through regardless of the inheritAll flag. The doco could have been clearer, but that’s life.
The easy work around: don’t use the dir attribute to locate the file, actually specify it in full (see the bug report for the example).
I lodged a bug report with Apache Ant today; first one in a long while. It turns out the the <ant> and <subant> tasks aren’t entirely compatible.
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There’s a (somewhat controversial) design principle in object-oriented programming called the Liskov Substitution Principle. One of the classic examples is about Circles being Ellipses.
Continue reading “Circle/Ellipse Paradox… NOT!”
Daniel Hinojosa asks What the hell ever happened to doGet() and doPost()
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Cedric takes exception to my earlier post another who didn’t get what I was saying. I think that says a lot for my ability to explain ideas, uh?
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Looking back over the notes from the Dev Day I took, I was reminded of a feature that I would have liked to have seen in 1.5: named parameters.
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Steve Mactaggart reviews the Melbourne Sun Developer Day. Looks like his thoughts were similar to mine
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Software is too expensive to build cheaply.... 