Why do you have to be like the others?

Bad news, It seems with the assignment rush and the exam cram time coming I’m finding it hard to find time to study. This means the lowest priority things get pushed off my TODO list. Sadly this means I won’t be blogging until mid November. Thanks for understanding.

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Using Subversion for Assignments

If you’ve never heard of subversion before then you are in for a pleasant surprise. Subversion is a version control tool, which means it will keep track of several files and all their old versions. Normally subversion is used to help multiple people work together on a single project. It tracks all their changes and [...]

Paramaterized Java Classes

One of the biggest features of Java 1.5 was generics. In particular all the collection classes had been extended to use parametrized classes. Normally the collection classes accepted and returned Objects which is the class all other Java classes descend from. Unfortunately this meant that you had to cast everything you got back out of [...]