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Want to play Mass Effect 2, but lost your Mass Effect 1 save games?

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Yes, I play video games too. I won’t miss out on Mass Effect, which I think portraits a world almost as intricate as any good sci-fi novel (oh yeah I read those too, you should try A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge).

Since Mass Effect is going to be a trilogy (and more apparently), Bioware included a system that will use old save games as input for continuity in upcoming games, including ME2. Note that you’ll still be able to pick a different face and class.

Get your Mass Effect 1 save games at masseffectsaves.com

I didn’t know there would be an option to use ME1 save games as input until recently and I’ve deleted my save games a long time ago. No undelete program would find them. Annakie recognized this would be a problem and started a small site that offers various save games each with a different set of key choices made over time in ME1.

How awesome is that!

Take your pick as the list is growing fast and the website is becoming a popular hub for Shepards.

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Java generic paged lazy List with JSF/JPA example implementation

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Here’s a list implementation I came up with to enable true paged data fetching completely transparent to any user. It works independent of persistence layers, such as JPA implementations etc.

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More logging in Tomcat 5.5+

Friday, February 27th, 2009

If you’re trying to deploy a war under Tomcat and it isn’t going like it should be, the first thing you do is look in the console if you ran it from a console, or the log files in Tomcat’s homefolder otherwise. Now this provides you with some details as to why something went wrong, but there is the chance that de application itself is throwing exceptions unlogged which are caught by Tomcat. Those are not logged by default by Tomcat! To log these as well, you’ll need to utilize log4j.

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The Science of Packages

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Some time ago I came across a very interesting article by Robert C. Martin (1996 column in pdf) about how packages are supposed to be made up and how it helps building a release, debug and shared-workload strategy. I don’t think it all applies to modern package management, especially for web applications, but it is an interesting perspective that deserves some attention.

www.objectmentor.com/publications/granularity.pdf

My summary of his article (as I understood all of it):

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