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WoW: The games we play

Actually we’re only playing one game right now: World of Warcraft. For those who don’t know it’s the new ultra-hyped (since its first announcement) MMORPG by Blizzard. I’ve been waiting for this game ever since they announced it some time between Diablo II and Warcraft III. The first screenshots published looked promising and the first tales about the game made me want to play. After all it’s a Blizzard game and I already loved Diablo (after some initial “Nooo that’s not my type of game!” and Warcraft III).
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Catch me if you can

Long time no see: StackOverflowError. Yay! It’s even an error and not an exception. How nice of java to tell me I am stupid ;-)

Guess what? Some refactoring caused a method to call itself. Shouldn’t pass different things as String parameters. No type safety! Argh no String parameters *teeth grinding* no strings . . . → Read More: Catch me if you can

Quit your job

Via Webmasterblog and Wired News: Quit Your Job to Blog, Blog, Blog comes this:

“If you’re incredibly talented on a certain topic and people value your work than I guess it is possible. But probably not for many,” he said.

It’s about Jason Kottke, a well-known blogger, who has quit his job and . . . → Read More: Quit your job

Exceptions: Talking to your future self

It’s nice to see that I anticipated my own stupidity and send myself a nice explanation in the exception’s message, so now all I need to do is correct an error instead of debugging ;-)

You know you want to be en engineer

when you read the list of things you can make: Thottbot World of Warcraft: Engineering

Goblin Rocket Fuel Gnomish Shrink Ray Snow Master 9000 Big Iron Bomb Aquadynamic Fish Attractor Flying Tiger Goggles

I think someone got very creative with names here . First thing I do when I get home? Make another character: . . . → Read More: You know you want to be en engineer