Rob Young

Having not really explored functional programming before, I found the following presentation by Jim Duey to be a great introduction.

Through examples in Java, he presents a rundown of the basic functional programming concepts (Higher Order Functions, Laziness, Composition).

It was great for establishing a sense of how programming in a functional language can:

• improve code design, and therefore testability
• afford reuse and parallelism
• encourage thinking at a higher conceptual level
• fit naturally into an agile context

I hope that others may enjoy it too!

My build was breaking due to Maven complaining about not being able to read jms-1.1.jar, as if it was corrupt after having been downloaded.

Deleting it from my local repository and letting it re-download fixed it a couple of times, but for what it’s worth I eventually stopped it from behaving like this by changing my log4j dependency from version 1.2.15 to 1.2.14.

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I came across an annoying bug today where I was able to deploy a webapp to Tomcat once, but subsequent redeployments resulted in an exception when attempting to write to the server.
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A few days ago I noticed my flickrRSS WordPress plugin had inexplicably stopped working, and was not loading any of my images. Is your problem the same as mine? I’m running WordPress 2.6.2 and flickrRSS Version 4. Here’s how I fixed it…
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Due to the fact that phpBB3 doesn’t let you post html, posting images from flickr on phpBB3 looks like a bit of a hash-up involving [IMG] and [URL] tags. I searched for ages for a Custom BBCode that allowed you to post the HTML provided by flickr on the “All Sizes” page in a custom tag, but found nothing. Thankfully, one of my friends knocked one together – so here’s how to use flickr’s HTML in a custom phpBB3 BBCode tag and get nice output. Read the rest of this entry »