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Why is DataInputStream.read(byte[] b, int off, int len) declared final? Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Utah Google Technology User Group

I am a big GWT fan and am excited about Google App Engine which is why some of my friends and I are starting the Utah Google Technology User Group. We’re just getting started and don’t yet have a place to meet but we’re working to get the word out.
If you’re interested in participating, [...]

I recently saw this fascinating Google Tech Talk from Van Jacobsen. It’s a few years old but it’s one of those things I wish I would have scene years ago when I started grad school doing research in networking and the Internet.
This talk really puts into perspective the importance of things like distributed hash [...]

My Picture on the Spring homepage

I was just looking for some Spring documentation when I cam across this posting, http://springframework.org/node/654 that was linked from the Spring home page.  In the picture on the left, there’s a shiny head that I happened to recognize as my coworker, Jason Allen.  I looked a little closer and found myself in the picture.  I’m [...]

Who needs an architect?

When I work from our Orem Office, I’m surrounded by people who call themselves ‘architects’. I’ve always hated this title in the software industry. It doesn’t mean anything. If you take a room full of five software architects and ask them what it means to be a software architect, you’ll get five [...]

Git

A coworker of mine has been looking into the Git source code management system. He showed me how Git can integrate with Subversion. It looked pretty cool so I decided to give it a try and now I’m hooked.
Git was created by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. He gave [...]

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