Today is Saturday, at least here in the USA it is. (I think it’s Thursday south of the equator, right?) At any rate, here is your homework for Monday when you return to “work”:

Find the longest human-coded class in a Java application at your company. Also, find the longest human-coded method in a Java application. Post the results here.

This is Thanksgiving week here in the USA, so it’s not like any of you are actually working next week. This should be fun!

For “longest”, let’s just count the number of “\n” characters.

Bonus points to anyone who knows of a simple program that can produce these metrics by quickly scanning an entire directory tree. Counting lines of code in a class is easy with a bit of shell scripting mojo, I’m not so sure about counting lines of code in individual methods.

I suppose you might try to briefly explain the reason these classes and methods are so abnormally huge, without exposing anything proprietary. We wouldn’t want to embarrass anyone, after all.

Regrettably, I do not have enough green:

A coworker took this picture of our TV at work, showing CNN in all of its glory:

Here is what Snopes has to say about that:

The U.S. Postal Service will not accept mail addressed to “Any Soldier,” “Any Wounded Soldier,” or the like because if it did, it could be providing a conduit for those who might do harm to armed services members. Such offerings are either returned to sender (if a return address has been provided or if one is found within the package) or donated to charities (if no address for the sender is found). Similarly, military hospitals will not accept letters, cards, or packages addressed in such manner for the same reason. Such beneficences, no matter how kindly meant, are not permitted to reach the soldiers they were intended for.

Good job, CNN!

In all fairness, I don’t have any context for this photo. Perhaps CNN was doing a story illustrating how easily fake news and urban legends circulate through Email? After talking to the person who took the picture, I have confirmed this was part of a Veterans Day story and they promoted the address as legitimate. Boo, CNN.

Final results expected Nov 12, but early exit polling indicates the following:

The Android SDK is coming on November 12. Woohoo!

See also: Schmidt

Drawing stick figure comics may seem like a pathetic cry for help…a desperate plea for MORE LINKS…but the Code To Joy team has taken the art of link groveling to a new level.

For those “on the inside”, Mike has better pictures…far better pictures…deemed inappropriate for the workplace.

Mike: post those pictures!

UPDATE: Oops, I corrected the link to Mike’s blog.

Dear Steve,

Writing your own JDK is really hard. Maybe you should follow Microsoft’s lead and let Sun do the dirty work?

Enjoy!

Suggested reading for those who don’t get it…

• Wide Stance
• Albus Dumbledore
• Expecto

I have no idea what this means, but I won the monkey prize on Woot!

After my failure mocking the president of Iran, I was about to give it all up.

Perhaps there will be a new comic this week after all…

Boy, what a week! Let’s kick off the weekend early. All loyal Stuff That Happens Subscribers can leave work at noon today. Enjoy this new comic…

UPDATE: Apparently nobody “gets it”. Here is some background material:

• Ahmadinejad is the president of Iran
• Do a Google search for Ahmadinejad quotes, or Ahmadinejad jacket
• He is well-known for executing gays, and recently spoke at Columbia University, where he mentioned that Iran has no homosexuals, like we do in the US
• He is also known for his pursuit of nuclear technology. He claims it is for power only. The US claims it is for bombs.

Get it now?

Now for a quick survey:

1. Now you’ve gone too far, Burke. I will unsubscribe from your Atom Feed right now.
2. You just jumped the shark.
3. More, more, more!