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Monthly Archives September 2007

The difference between Hashtable and HashSet

In this particular case, about an hour and a half.
I’m sure there’s a moral in there somewhere, but other than “you apparently need to know more about how the APIs work internally than should be necessary” I can’t seem to find it.
Hey ho. Ever forward.

Posted 20 September 2007 † Simes § Java § Programming ‡ Comments (0) °

PhotoShock

Every so often I get a small surge of creativity which enables me to dismantle someone else’s work and twist it to my own nefarious purpose. In the latest of this irregular series, I present: the Bioshock gamercard sig.

Uses my gamercard parser thing to dynamically update the score, and stuff. Nothing particularly special, perhaps, but [...]

Posted 18 September 2007 † Simes § Games § Programming ‡ Comments (5) °

In Space!

There are no good space-based real time strategy games around these days. And, well, it’s a fairly niche genre, so I suppose it’s understandable. But last week I suddenly had the urge to dig out and re-play Homeworld: Cataclysm, so after much digging through boxes of stuff, I did so. And it was just as [...]

Posted 17 September 2007 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Under the Influenza

Stupid shaky hands. How am I supposed to drink my tea?

Posted 11 September 2007 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Brilliant Ideas

Opening the store at ten, but not actually opening the checkouts till eleven. Awesome. Thanks, Tesco!

Posted 09 September 2007 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °