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Yesterday I had a bit of interesting work performancing tuning some code for our project’s current iteration. The code that required optimisation basically filtered some results in memory based on a set of user-specified criteria. The criteria contained a variety of different datatypes (boolean, numeric and string) and my suspicions were confirmed after a bit of simplistic profiling that the biggest consumer of computation time was the string pattern matching that was being performed.

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I just noticed that my puny 2MB Hotmail storage just got increased to a <soakedInSarcasm>whopping</soakedInSarcasm> 250MB. Though it’s nice of Hotmail to be playing catch up, for me already too late since my reply-to address on hotmail is my gmail account.

And besides… Gmail wins hands down in the user interface side!

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Increasing code quality is something that is currently being driven hard in our project. I am a big fan of weeding out code to make way for better smelling things like patterns and easily unit testable code. Many people have attempted to quantify code quality using metrics and a variety of tools to enforce these metrics. Checkstyle is one of these tools that we employ to encourage code quality (I qualify this because using these tools do not automatically equate to high quality code).

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About half an hour ago, I finished reading the book, The Mayne Inheritance, written by historian, Rosamon Siemon. When I first stumbled across it at the library, I was reminded of the book’s substantial popularity when it was first published by the excessively large number of available copies that remained on the shelf.

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To celebrate Gerrod’s final days of bachelorhood, I spent the weekend with a group of him and his mates at the Hyatt Regency Resort at Coolum. Located north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast, the Hyatt Regency is an extravagent retreat where the Australian PGA Championship is hosted every year. His brother Jason (who is conveniently an events organisater by trade) planned a weekend that included a day of unlimited golf, over night accomodation and breakfast.

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I want to extend a big thanks to all the people that managed to make it to dinner this Saturday just gone. Perfect evening weather made for a fantastic dinner held at one of the best Indian restaurants in Brisbane, Punjabi Palace.

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After such a busy week at work (and somehow managing to operate on a minimal amount of sleep) I was fortunate enough to catch The Cat Empirelast night (Friday) at The Arena. A Melbourne based group, they have been critically acclaimed for their unique style that can only be described as a fusion of jazz, hip hop and latin music.

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Tonight the Rev hosted the musical talent of the Theivery Corporation. The night made way to a wonderfully eclectic mix of contemporary electronica in an upbeat, yet chilled environment.

The two DJs, Eric Hilton and Rob Garza, who make up the Thievery Corporation are probably not as well known as they deserve to be. Their tracks featured in numerous mainstream commercials, soundtracks and TV episodes. The music is best described as a fusion between many different genres including trip-hop, acid jazz, latin, reggae and lounge music, an ideal combination for what really should be a quiet week for me. Although not the best performance I’ve been to all year, it was definitely worth the late evening/early morning and the ticket price.

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