Fri 11 October 2019
Null references are problematic, to say the least. Tony Hoare (inventor of the
null reference) even went as far to say call them his "billion dollar
mistake".
In this article, I first make a cursory exploration of why null references are
so problematic, and then have a look at Java's …
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Mon 22 July 2019
I just got home from the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
(ITiCSE) conference in lovely Aberdeen, Scotland. I was there to present a small
experience paper on developing and using RepoBee, an open
source tool for generating and managing large amounts of Git repositories for
students in higher education …
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Mon 22 July 2019
I've been AWOL for a month due to injury, sickness and conference-going. But
with all that finally out of the way, I have another Tip of the Week, this time
relating to Git: the git worktree
command. With git worktree
, you can check
out multiple branches at once, which is …
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Sun 23 June 2019
A couple of weeks ago I covered some basic I/O redirection in bash (see
I/O redirection in bash). Well, there's actually
a lot more to it, so for this TOTW I thought I'd touch on a few more advanced
usages.
Redirecting stderr
Sometimes, you may find that part …
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Thu 13 June 2019
Another Tip of the Week, in the same week as the previous one (because I've
been slacking off). This one is very simple, and rather non-technical. I simply
want to direct attention toward
humblebundle.com, and their quite frequent book
bundles. Many of these book bundles include or are entirely …
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