Ricky's technical blog

A field is being initialised when used, rather than when the object is created. Extract the initialisation into a separate method that ret...

In some real code, I changed an int that was used to index into an array of ViewerPanels, so that the ViewerPanel was passed around instead ...

I mostly work on GUI software for controlling and viewing video from security cameras. The software is written in Java, and mostly written ...

I have about 200kloc of Java code to work with, and I often stumble across bits that are more complex than they need to be, costing me time ...

I'm continually unimpressed by a certain form of argument that I've seen in many places, but especially in the continuing discussion...

I've now closed 100 tickets in the last 100 calendar days at work , which might not mean a lot, but it's been a personal target of m...

Hi Jose, We decided, while drinking an overly-priced red wine the other night, that I'd help you to learn how to program, but without m...

I'm going through my old drafts and deleting or publishing them. This one I no longer agree with, I'd rather rewrite the methods to...