Happy 2009!

Posted by Mike Haller on Wednesday, December 31. 2008 at 23:59 in Private
I wish everyone a happy new year! May it bring newly found prosperity, love, happiness and delight into your life.

Silvester 2008

JBoss sucks

Posted by Mike Haller on Wednesday, December 31. 2008 at 16:00 in Java, WTF
JBoss 5.0.0.GA startup message:

15:55:41,325 WARN [JBossASSecurityMetadataStore] WARNING! POTENTIAL SECURITY RISK. It has been detected that the MessageSucker component which sucks messages from one node to another has not had its password changed from the installation default. Please see the JBoss Messaging user guide for instructions on how to do this.

Obviously "Pulling Messages" or "Reading Messages" hadn't fit the meaning the programmer or whoever wrote this message wanted it to have.

Gift to myself

Posted by Mike Haller on Tuesday, December 30. 2008 at 20:19 in Private
Can't wait until the X-Mas gift to myself arrives. The baby is going to be treated well, i promise, but please hurry up. Hope to get it assembled before 17. January, but I heard that they're short on stock. So it may be late for the upcoming LAN party.

Memory Low for Indexing

Posted by Mike Haller on Monday, December 29. 2008 at 20:32 in Java

Defense Grid - The Awakening

Posted by Mike Haller on Wednesday, December 17. 2008 at 10:00 in Gaming
Yessss! finally I beat the end level of Defense Grid: The Awakening, a 3D tower defence game. I love those games and I've played a lot of them. Starting with very basic tower defence games written as Java Applets and ending with this really beautiful 3D version of the game. The concept is pretty easy: you've got enemies walking from point A to point B and you have to build weapon towers to kill them before they reach point B.

Defense Grid gave me a total of approx. 8hrs of pleasure so far. Most of the maps are not that hard and after a few trials, usually one is able to get the strategy working and finish them up. However, I was kind of stuck in the last level. After a few trials, I gave up and draw the map in OpenOffice, so I could lay out my strategy better and visualize the paths i want the enemies (aliens that is) to take.

Read on to see how to beat the final level of Defense Grid.

About

My name is Mike Haller and I'm a software developer and architect at Innovations Software Technology in Germany. I love programming, playing games and reading books. I like good food, making photos and learning and mentoring about the craftsmanship of commercial software development.

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