Category Archives: Software Engineering

Oracle Adds License to oracle-java7-installer and Now It Fails

Posted on March 15, 2014 by tim

For automatic provisioning that installs the official Oracle Java package, many paths lead to WebUpd8Team/java PPA and www.webupd8.org. Currently, the apt-get-install oracle-java7-installer command will fail, leaving a file at /var/cache/oracle-jdk7-installer/jdk-7u51-linux-*.tar.gz that is a plain .html file that contains “Sorry! In … Continue reading →

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Groovy Badness: Turn a List into a Map

Posted on October 27, 2013 by tim

I’ve always enjoyed finding bugs in languages. I still fondly recall finding a bug in Perl concerning the “while () { .. }” construct and file names that evaluate to ‘false’, like a file named “0”, for example. More recently, … Continue reading →

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Tim’s Rule on Agile

Posted on February 29, 2012 by tim

Tim’s Rule on Agile: If you read a description of Agile practices and do not find at least one thing wrong per page, then you do not have enough experience to make Agile work. Tim’s first corollary to the Rule … Continue reading →

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