I was chatting with an old acquaintance from high school who now works at Microsoft at on XBox Live Arcade. I showed him this blog, and he was giving me some tips on using Windows as a development environment. He let me know that aliases can be set in the Windows cmd (see [...]
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I don’t like Windows links (.lnk). They are useful to create shortcuts to other places in the filesystem, but they lack meat. You can’t do much else with them. And the way I use them with Launchy, all I want to do is put them somewhere that Launchy can find them and [...]
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I don’t know if this is a good habit or not, but I’ve grown very comfortable in Linux killing processes by id. The easiest way to do this is to call ‘ps -ef’, pipe it, and grep by the process name. For example, if you want to find out the process id of [...]
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Eric’s post about the LinkedHashSet got me thinking about some code I’ve recently written to provide an ArrayList that operates like a set. I wasn’t aware of the LinkedHashSet, but I think I implemented something with similar functionality called a UniqueArrayList. It looks very simple:
public class UniqueArrayList extends ArrayList {
[...]
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This Job Isn’t Nearly As Exciting As The DeVry Institute Led Me To Believe
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