About a week ago I decided to try and write a chess engine. I’ve encountered bitboards before, and I really liked working with them. Most references I found had to do with chess engines, so I decided to have a go.
A couple of weeks ago our Scrum team was thinking about exception handling. We don’t use checked exceptions, since they are the embodiment of evil. So everything is translated into runtime exceptions whenever possible. But this is where the problems start: What do you do with the uncatched runtime exceptions?
Taking it one step further [...]
Many projects I’ve worked on, especially the projects using micro-optimization, had memory leaks and surprising performance hits. Most coders who work on for example Al Zimmermann’s programming contests use C/C++ and maybe even CUDA to get the most out of their system.
I’m usually using Java, just because I’m most at home in this language. [...]
After a lot of comments on my blog asking about the code I decided to try getting it released one more time. Thus I mailed Digital Landmark Services again, telling them this is just a hobby project, and will (in its current form) never be a replacement for Shazam. Also, I explained a lot of [...]
A couple of people replied to my last article about constructor vs setter injection that they prefer a third option, field injection. This is a slight variant of setter injection in which we magically let the setter dissapear.
So, another blogpost here!
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