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• How To:
  • How To Debug
  • How To Use CVS
• My very incomplete paper on Multithreaded Design.
• Bresenham's Algorithm
• Java:
  • Java Improvents I'd Like To See.
  • JMX Notes. NIO Select Notes.
• Testing:
  • Adventures In Unit Testing.
  • A TDD Experience Report.
  • Unit Testing Tips And Tricks: Database Interactions.
  • I was quoted in Software Test & Perfomance magazine, Best Practices Article, pg 37. (local)
• Monitor Resolutions.
• Woo-hoo! My patent.

• Little-endian: in least significant byte first order (the data is represented "little-end-first"). Intel and VAX machines. 0x1234 = 34 12
• Big-endian: the most significant byte first ("big-end-first"). Unix workstations (Sun boxes). 0x1234 = 12 34
• Network byte order: big-endian.

• Dictionary quickref

• When queuing, always provide backpressure.
• Never hide a change in level in the memory hierarchy. It is better to make things look more expensive than they are than to make things look cheaper than they are.
• When you have an active object that takes a listener as a constructor parameter, don't start immediately - provide a start method instead.
• When you have an async request (especially a "stop" request), support detecting when the request is complete. There are three cases: don't care, block, and callback. If the callback case is supported, the other two can be implemented in terms of it.
• When doing subscriptions, there are three methods: subscribe, unsubscribe, and refresh. Refresh is not strictly required, but is useful - it is needed if subscriptions are muxed downstream.
• In event driven systems, an object whose update is an event should be immutable.