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I think I found the most violent and vivid, the most honest and Earth-shattering blog entry about software engineering I’ve seen in 15 years of programming:

I’ll give you the capsule synopsis, the one-sentence summary of the learnings I had from the Bad Thing that happened to me while writing my game in Java: if you [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: March 1st, 2007
Programming Languages: Java 5
Tools: Eclipse
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Downloads: bridgetest.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain
This is a solution to this “classic” synchronization problem: there is a one-way bridge that can hold up to three cars; they arrive at one end of the bridge and exit the bridge at the other [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: November 12th, 1997
Programming Languages: Java
Tools: Java 1.1, Notepad
Platforms: Cross-platform
Download: CalcApplet.zip
Live Demo: Click here
Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain
My first full-featured Java applet, 10 years ago. Read more about it here.

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: August 3rd, 1998
Programming Languages: Java
Tools: Java 1.1, Notepad
Platforms: Cross-platform
Download: imgsize.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain
I created this program in 1998 to solve a business problem in the company I was working on at the time; we needed to get the width and height of image files uploaded to the server, and [...]