Tuesday, October 7, 2014

SAX! <facepalm />

It has been a long time since I have run into a bug in the JDK, let alone in an older version such as JDK 6 update 45.  But low and behold...

So there I was doing a code review on a colleagues code, and ended up breaking it (SURPRISE, SURPRISE!).  As I was debugging it, I discovered that the issue was actually my fault.  I had accidentally created some corrupt data files that it was trying to read.  My colleague's code actually handled the exception decently, so that was good.  Seeing as this was a web services application that was storing its data in XML files (don't ask how we came to that decision), I decided rather than restart my local weblogic, I would just get rid of the bad files and make the call again.

As I waited for windows to lie to me about how long it was going to take to delete the files, my screen suddenly changed.  I got the following:

Inbox Zero

Oy, has it ever been a long time since I've updated this blog....Well, I'm not going to make any promises about do it more frequently.  Instead, I'll simply post something that has been amazing in my work life lately.

I am probably severely late to this party, but the InboxZero concept described by Merlin Mann in this video has had a profound effect on how I manage e-mail.