Bytes of Wisdom

Just wanted to share something that made my day.

jlockwood — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:27:00 GMT

Sniff...sniff...I think I'm in love... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryBLZCOQ...(read more)

Seeking Closures

jlockwood — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:03:00 GMT

So, what's a closure and why should I care? As Bob Dylan said, "...the times they are a changin'." The strange world of functional programming , once restricted to more esoteric languages such as LISP, Erlang and Haskell, is now invading...(read more)

Learning to Speak with a LISP

jlockwood — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:36:39 GMT

So it's now my second week of playing with LISP and I have to tell you it's been a heck of a ride so far. I've played with LISP in the past, but never with such intensity. I figured I'd share some of my experiences as I engage with this...(read more)

Awesome response to an interview question...

jlockwood — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Just a quicky here. I've been reading "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel (great book by the way) and came across a really funny footnote. I think I'll use the interviewing engineer's response if given the chance in the future...(read more)

Note on sets in hibernate/nHibernate

jlockwood — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:23:00 GMT

I just wanted to share this with anyone who is not aware... Caveat: After reviewing my original post and the comments that follow I had initially elected to change the container tag in the example below from set to list. After thinking about it further...(read more)

Virtual Joy

jlockwood — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:23:00 GMT

At home I have only my Linux box to work with. I'm quite content with it, but I do have some DOS and older Windows apps that I like to use. Unfortunately, by DOS floppy's are now dead (as is my floppy drive) and the MSDN DOS download is for making...(read more)

Nested classes with JUnit

jlockwood — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:56:00 GMT

Recently I was playing with JUnit 4.X. I wanted to be able to define tests in nested classes as I had before with NUnit. This was to facilitate BDD-ish test definitions, where I break up unit tests by test context. My first attempt failed (of course)...(read more)

Using SSL Websphere MQSeries and .Net

jlockwood — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:44:00 GMT

Hi all, I've haven't posted anything since my last contract...sorry about that (what can I say, I've been busy...Ma, AgileJoe's been abusing me!). In any case, this is as much for my benefit (and documentation for the current team) as...(read more)

Metaphors and Mathematics

jlockwood — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:59:09 GMT

I haven't posted myself in a bit and decided to go ahead and drop a few lines...albeit a little off topic. I've been looking for supplemental maths books for both my children. As you Computer Science types know, texts for elementary Maths (and...(read more)

Calling .Net Web Services from Oracle PL/SQL

jlockwood — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:04:00 GMT

I'm working relatively closely these days with an Oracle DBA on this super-cool mainframe integration project (anyone want to join me? LOL). The old batch ops were managed through cron'd jobs in Oracle and I was asked to take a different approach...(read more)

Subversion Tip of the Day - Moving Files

jlockwood — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:18:34 GMT

Many of you are beginning to use Subversion for your source control repository these days. I am also sure that you have found SVNTortoise to be a welcome addition to Subversion and use it also. Moving files and directories at the command line is a pretty...(read more)

VB.Net oddity of the day - Array Declarations

jlockwood — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:05:59 GMT

I ran into a recent issue today relating to array declarations in VB.Net. I looked up array declarations on the net and found something that gave me hope, but alas... " Arrays In VB6 declaring an array Dim Items(5) As String gives you 6 items from...(read more)

Things I hate...

jlockwood — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:47:52 GMT

BTW, sorry I've been out of the loop for a while. Whatever. Things I hate...Windows Vista. Just kidding (well, not really). Anyway, I hate Web Services that do little more than allow inefficient remote access to a databases. As you may know, I'm...(read more)

Quick Background on my current CICS integration project

jlockwood — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:00:00 GMT

I'm currently working on a stop-gap legacy integration project that is geared toward data integration between a legacy CICS system and a new 3rd party product. I have 2 major tasks in this project, the first being a web application for bulk data entry...(read more)

VB.Net oddity of the day - Assignment/Comparison operator

jlockwood — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:56:00 GMT

On my current project I'm forced to code in VB.Net. Normally I'm pretty open to other languages, but VB.Net is irritating (more so than VB6 in my opinion). The language syntax is riddled with ambiguity (at least for a c-type guy like myself) and...(read more)