technology – Software n' stuff

Advent of Code 2018

This year I’m taking part in the awesome Advent of Code, and because I haven’t done a lot of Ruby over the past couple of years I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to refresh my skills. In case you’re unfamiliar, AoC is a series of twenty-five coding challenges. Each day leading up toContinue reading “Advent of Code 2018”

Generate less bytecode with default methods

Java’s default methods (introduced back in Java 8) are one of those features that solve the intended problem reasonably well, while at the same time allowing all kinds of nasty code and weird inheritance stuff when used in a general-purpose kind of way. Indeed, they’ve been the subject of a ton of posts and theContinue reading “Generate less bytecode with default methods”

Mocking v2.0

We all love to use mocks in our Java tests, right? Add the usual mock framework to your test dependencies, sprinkle a few mock, when and thenWhatever calls in to your code, and happy days. You’re able to test things in isolation, and as an added bonus ensure your code is actually calling the stuffContinue reading “Mocking v2.0”

Curb FFI – FFI port of Curb

In the meantime, I’ve also started work on porting (if that’s the right word) Curb to FFI, with a view to moving away from the existing C code.

And for your next project…

We’ve all been there – you’re at a bit of a loose end, you want to write some cool software, but try as you might you just can’t get inspired. There’s that vague idea you’ve been toying with for months, you know – the one that involves dependency injection, HTML Canvas and/or Haxe – butContinue reading “And for your next project…”