Random thoughts by Ceki Gülcü

I recently had to make a few changes to a java project. The computer at my disposal, Gentoo Linux AMD64 machine, did not have eclipse instal...

In the last few weeks I had to dabble in Maven, either migrating existing projects or creating new ones. The experience has been conclusiv...

Sebastien Pennec recently announced the release of logback version 0.1. As the version number suggests, the logback framework still needs a...

As a relatively experienced Ant user, I usually try to avoid Maven, a build system intended to automate mundane and time consuming tasks suc...

After several years of developing exclusively in Java, I recently ventured into the .Net/C# world. At a first glance, C# is eerily similar t...

I've been using Gentoo on my Linux servers for the past several years, and it's a very nifty piece of software/distribution. Althoug...

I just finished reading the first chapter of "Tapestry in Action" by Howard M. Lewis Ship. I really like the style of the author. ...

I happen to consider Spring a pretty nifty framework. Actually, many of the developers I know consider it nifty and I don't have any rea...

Although only the fourth or fifth largest in Switzerland, the city of Lausanne currently possesses the biggest post office in the country. T...

I am not a big fan of Hani Suleiman. The feeling is apparently mutual. In response to my recent post about SLF4J's first release on TS...

After 11 months of gestation, SLF4J version 1.0 (final) is finally out the door. For those who have not heard of it, SLF4J (Simple Logging F...

Alex Karasulu of Apache Directory project recently floated this question in their development mailing lists. The ensuing discussion was ope...

While 99.9% of Sudoku puzzles can be solved using relatively simple techniques, certain very difficult Sudoku puzzles require more advanced ...

It appears that Hani Suleiman of bile blog fame has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process. I find ithard to...

The enhanced for loop introduced in JDK 1.5 makes it easier to loop through arrays and collections. However, as some of the other features a...

Donald Knuth once wrote that premature optimization was the root of all evil. As an immediate corollary, Knuth's principle implies that ...