http://seattle.henko.net And they lived happily ever after... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:52:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One week has now passed since I left Seattle and the United States of America. Almost ten months has passed since I first got there. While I wouldn't be surprised to find my self back there one day, I feel that this is a good time to summarize my experiences ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/07/11/epilogue/ I've been very efficient today. I met the landlord to get my deposit back, I've sold my bike and my bed, cleaned my room, sorted everything, thrown away what I don't need, burned a few things which I didn't want in the hands of the wrong person (personal checks for ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/06/13/the-last-supper/ I took a trip to the bookstore earlier today, and found those just lovely *right-slated* playing cards. All cards feature one of the members of Bush's staff and gives a nice quote or a brief description of the person. My "favorite" so far is probably Karen Hughes, Under Secretary of State, ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/31/bush-cards/ Yesterday I tidied up my room, vacuumed it, did some laundry, cleaned the kitchen, swept the floor in the hallway and generally tried to make everything look as nice as possible. Why? Because it was needed? For sure, but no, that wasn't the reason. Because I'm such an orderly person? ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/31/all-work-for-nothing/ { swollen-lip *}Tonight I played Ultimate as I usually do on Mondays and Wednesdays. Before the actual game started, I was just throwing back and forth with some random guy. It was somewhat windy, and when I held my hands ready to catch the disc coming towards me, the wind ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/25/swollen-upper-lip/ I just found an article named [Refactoring Demo Screencast->http://xp123.com/xplor/xp0605/index.shtml] featuring four short videos nicely showing four different ways of performing the simple refactoring [Extract Method->http://refactoring.com/catalog/extractMethod.html]. Starting with "Sloppy", making its way to "Automated att full speed". UPDATE: I managed to incorrectly make the first link point to the wrong place. Now ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/24/examples-of-a-simple-refactoring/ Thank God It's Friday, or [TGIF->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGIF] as it is usually abbreviated, is the name of an event which takes place in (or near) the computer science building every friday afternoon. It is a way to round off the work week and relax before the weekend. Usually it means that students, ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/20/thank-god-its-friday/ Among Java developers, there exist [different ideas->http://www.artima.com/intv/bloch17.html] about how to implement the `[equals->http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#equals(java.lang.Object)]()` method. The disagreement is about whether to allow subclasses to be considered equal or not. # Two ways to see it Some say that it should be done using the `instanceof` operator, like this. public boolean ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/18/implementing-equals/ Today, [Göran->mt-rainier] flew home after a visiting me here in Seattle for ten days. After having first [Karin->gastinlagg-karin-i-seattle] and then Göran staying here in my room, I've started to get used to having someone around. But now things are back to normal, I guess. While "back to normal" include some ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/10/back-to-normal/ Efter en tidig väckning av dubbla väckarklockor och en snabb frukost begav vi oss ner mot centrum för att hämta ut hyrbilen. Väl nere i centrum fick vi vår bil (en Huyndai Accent) för att sedan sätta full fart mot berget. Resan gick först via I5 med dess 5 filer ... http://seattle.henko.net/2006/05/07/mt-rainier/