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August Link Dump

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Finally it’s super easy to make your own card and board games.  Someone must have realized how many times people have gotten all excited to make a game, then had all their energy go to waste when they realized how hard it is to get such a game published.
I’m really picky about sneakers.  These make
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Exceptional Exceptions

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

I’ve heard a lot of mantras regarding how to handle exceptions properly in programming languages that support checked exceptions (eg Java).  Sometimes these mantras are regarded a little too highly, even doing harm in some situations.  I’d like to dissect a couple of these.
Never Sometimes catch the top-level “Exception” class.
There are times when it is
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Blog Redesign

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Decided to spruce up the design of this blog. I wanted texture, and here it is!

Decided to not use any PNG transparency hacks and just let the browser do what it wants with what I throw at it. As a result, the few visitors that are using IE6 will get less-than-ideal rendering.  I
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