NewInstance

Creating a statically linked version of a unix software saves you in all the circumstances where you can’t install the software as root, when you don’t have development tools on the target machine, when you cannot find a prepackaged version for the specific server, when the libraries available on a server are conflicting with the [...]

I recently started to use a feature in Eclipse 3.6.1 that I didn’t notice before: the “Save Actions”. Basically you can configure some actions that will be done automatically when you save a Java source. Some of them are really useful, like Organizing the imports, adding ‘final’ to private member instances, etc. Here the screen-shot [...]

Just discovered an interesting bug in Java interpreter and compiler, that makes them hang when converting the value 2.2250738585072012e-308. Nice to know. The bug has been reported to Oracle, but I supposed they will include this in their collection of bugs and sell it as “Oracle Database 12g” product. :-)