Wednesday February 02, 2005

Films & TV

CSI observations Last night (Channel) five ran the Miam/NY crossover episode again in readiness for Saturday. With Vegas running just before something became apparent about the way the three settings were filmed in daylight. Vegas had a yellow/white glow, Miami a yellow/orange glow and NY a grey colourless appearance. In fact in the first scene with both David Caruso and Garu Sinise, Caruso is in the background bathed in what looks like sun light, and Sinise in the foreground in a grey cold colourless light. Of course this may have been coincidence as I haven't seen any CSI:NY yet only the crossover. I will wait and see...

(2005-02-02 02:23:12.0) Permalink

Java

Makefiles are satan's contribution to software Probably a bit harsh but one of the places I always have trouble is with Makefiles. Regardless of whether I'm building Java or C I normally fall foul of something (Note: I use Apache Ant for all my own personal projects).

My current pet peeve is with Makefiles and jar files. The part of a source tree I am working in generates lots of class files and a handful of jar files. However the ability of the makefiles to correctly rebuild the jar files after I have touched some source appears to be random. This means on occasions when I'm testing changes I find I'm still using old code. This so wastes my time.

(2005-02-02 01:59:28.0) Permalink Comments [3]