43 things….
Friday, January 28th, 2005don’t know what to do with your life? 43things.com can help you. basically a list of things people want to do … at this time 21886 different things…
Tags:Archive for January, 2005
Alfie
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005a beautiful movie with a gorgeous jude law as alfie. it’s about guys and girls, it’s funny and it’s sad, about relationships and breaking up, about having sex withy your bestr friend’s girl…. watch it.
8.5 out of 10.
thilos blog
Monday, January 24th, 2005thilo has started his study abroad semester in sweden and also created a blog, which you can find here.
Tags:free culture, by lawrence lessig
Monday, January 24th, 2005Free Culture, how big media uses technology and law to lock down culture and control creativity.
by Lawrence Lessig.
i guess hundreds of reviews have been written about this book, most of them by people who are more qualified to do so than i am, so i am not going to write another one. i’d just like to point out the key points this book gave me:
culture is the sum of all creative work done by the people of a community, be it a country, a continent or the entire world. creative work is (almost?) always based on the work of others, creative people take pieces of the work of others and transform them into something new by combining, changing and adding to them.
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australian pop corn
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005i recently bought an extra big pack of pop corn at a cinema - the first time in australia. i had to learn the hard way that in australia all pop corn is *salted* - disgusting
Tags:my photo gallery
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005my photo gallery can be found at http://langalex.org/gallery/
Tags:bush the devil
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
taken from http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/4/42/420/420915/bushny2.jpg
while in texas it just means long (bull) horn, in other countries it stands for satan…
Tags:swing programming: alternatives for gridbaglayout and swing threading
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005there are two pretty cool presentations on javalobby.org about (better) swing programming. one about threads and swing, the other about look and feels and layout managers.
most interesting:
1. threading: keep your listener methods leight weight, because these block your gui if they take too long to complete. if you have to do some larger work in a lister method, spawn a new thread. the best way to do this is using foxtrot:
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discovered: the spring framework
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005i’ve been reading through some articles about java programming on javalobby.org, where i came across and article talking about the spring framework. it sounded interesting so i read this article by martin fowler which explains how the dependency injection pattern (aka inversion of control) works. basically, it means that a class is no more responsible for fetching objects/resoures it depends on by itself but these are injected into an object by the framework.
having become really excited about it i then read this article about spring, which gives a (long) introduction on how spring works and how to use it - wow, this is revolutionary (at least for me).
all spring basically does is decouple the business logic of an (enterprise) application from all kinds of frameworks and implementation platforms by making extensive use of the dependency injection pattern. but the consequences are enourmous. you can now change your storage layer without changing any code - instead you simply edit a bunch of configuration files.
the second impact is that the business layer becomes much lighter since all these service/component lookup/creation calls are gone.
finally, the code becomes much easier to test. as dependencies are now injected into the classes instead of being looked up by the code itself a test case can simply inject a dummy service - ejb components can now be tested outside a container (if you want to use them at all, now that you have spring)
australia blog continued
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005this is part two of my blog about my study abroad semester in sydney. you can find the first part at kangaroo.blogg.de
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