Archive for May, 2005

SqueezeIt!

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Finally, I’ve debugged the damned thing! And it was, as usual, a very dumb typo. :(
But I don’t care any more. It works, as far as I’m concerned. Well, it does make really small files bigger and really large files a little smaller. I know how could be improved, but I don’t have the time […]

Agrhg!

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Compression program, now named “stisniga” (eng.: “squeezeit”), still does not work! I’m going nuts! At least the compress-code works. But that is virtually worthless if I can’t get it to uncompress right! :( F**k!

Half way there

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

I think I’s about time for a little status update on my compression program assignment.
Well, what can I say, after long nights of “WTF?!” and “F*** Y**!” I found that I approached the problem from the wrong perspective. Actually, I was just trying to use a data structure not so suitable for the job. So […]

Insomnia or “Mr. Huffman, please, burn in hell!”

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Yes, I’m again suffering of this not well known deasease called “insomnia.” By definition, “Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterised by an inability to sleep and/or to remain asleep for a reasonable period during the night.” (Wikipedia) So you see, I have truble sleeping at night. And it’s not because I couldn’t sleep or that […]

Threading in Java solved

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

OK, I managed to solve that threading mystery in Java, with a little help of Google, of course. I found the solution on Java Developer Almanac Website. Thanks to those guys. Actually, the same solution is described in official Java Platform API Docs, but is so poorly presented and explained I was just lost.
So, […]

I hate Java!

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

Well, I do! I’m working on this assignment for programming class and it seams that every useful method is deprecated! Grr!
Basically, I’m trying to make a stopwatch, or two to be precise, that could run at the same time. I have to use threads and Java makes this task a living hell! Methods that […]