June 2010
3 posts
Sharing the pain...
After hours of wrestling with what should have been a trivial integration with facebook (facebook share button), have finally worked out what was going wrong for me.
Facebook share ends up calling a url (what looks like a php page - sharer.php) which is provided with a u param for the url you are trying to share (there’s also a t param for the title, but see below).
Many people are...
CodeKata: Kata Nine: Back to the CheckOut →
Did this “code kata” last week as part of getting onto a contracting recruiter’s books. Much more interesting than I suspected. I kind of get the point of kata now. Let’s hope it leads to interesting contracts!
Note to self though: don’t try to combine python work and ruby katas in the same day - can be braincrunching.
"Bruce Eckel is Wrong" (on Checked Exceptions in... →
Good quality debate on the design (and use) of checked exceptions in Java. Eliotte Rusty Harold argues for the use of Checked Exceptions and why in general they are a Good Thing. I tried to hard to get behind this, but having been doing so much python and ruby for the last few years, can’t get my head back into this. In fact when I used Spring I found that there’s always loads more...