Introduction Sir Antony Hoare[1] introduced the concept of Null-references or a Null pointer[2] back in 1965 with the release of ALGOL W. In 2009 he spoke about it as his “Billion Dollar Mistake”[3]. Dereferencing a Null pointer will address an invalid memory region, usually leading to runtime errors or complete crashes. Despite many efforts, this is still […]
Things used to work, things had been quite nice for a while even. I usually felt being the owner and in charge of my electronic devices for the better part of my life. There’s been a lot of stuff that used to just worked. One such feature was the fact that my first iPod classic […]
Update: The plugin is now hosted on Mojohaus, has a new artefact id and thus is automatically available in Maven without to having to supply the group id. I updated the snippets below. The latest version displays also the versions of the plugins being used. I recently stumbled upon the buildplan-maven-plugin and I find it […]
“Oh please no, Michael, not Sport content here”… Well, sorry, it’s my blog and right now I don’t have a much better place for it. Bear with me, though, there will be some cool database querying later on. In late 2024 I stumbled upon No Rest for the Wicked 2025 and the idea is simple, […]
Hej there, yes it’s me, I’m still alive and doing things, such as neo4j-jdbc, with automatic SQL to Cypher translations or building things like this for my own enjoyment. However, with the tons of meaningless posts and stuff around “Hey ma, look how I do AI with $tool”, I felt a bit out of time […]