Unquiet Code, Ben Fagin's blog http://www.unquietcode.com/blog Come check out the new unquietcode.com! Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/uncategorized/new-year-new-site http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/uncategorized/new-year-new-site Enum State Machine is a simple state machine built in Java and using enums to define the various states. In addition to controlling the possible transitions, callbacks can be added between states or on entering and exiting a state. Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:32:39 -0500 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/programming/enum-state-machine http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/programming/enum-state-machine The Sunday night (day) putting projects on GitHub series presents: Bean Machine. This one dates back to October, 2011, and since I seem to be done before noon the rest of the day is looking pretty free now! Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:45:24 -0500 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/software/bean-machine http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/software/bean-machine The Tumblr Likes Grid is now on GitHub! Mon, 21 May 2012 02:31:53 -0500 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/programming/tumblr-likes-grid-is-now-on-github http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/programming/tumblr-likes-grid-is-now-on-github Flapi is a fluent API builder for Java. The goal is to make it easy and fun to create complex builders in Java. The project is hosted on github, with additional documentation on the project's wiki. Mon, 14 May 2012 10:29:06 -0500 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/software/introducing-flapi http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/software/introducing-flapi InfoQ published an article of mine today about creating Apache Avro schemas using JAXB. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:49:42 -0600 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/programming/hello-world http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2012/programming/hello-world I threw together a visualization of liked Tumblr posts, using their public api and the archive page layout. Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:49:54 -0600 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/programming/tumblr-likes-grid http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/programming/tumblr-likes-grid JIRA as a multi-purpose database tool. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:36:56 -0500 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/software/gojira http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/software/gojira Sometimes the programmer is forced to jump through a few hoops to get the code they want. Within the realm of strongly typed languages, generics help us achieve our API goals, bending the code to our will. Remember: there is no spoon. Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:13:21 -0500 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/programming/using-generics-to-build-fluent-apis-in-java http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/programming/using-generics-to-build-fluent-apis-in-java Like a baby planet, forming from the accretion of so much dust and debris, UQCLib finally gets its act together and announces to the universe "I AM HERE"--version 0.1 wants to say 'Hello'. Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:46:14 -0500 http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/software/introducing-uqclib http://www.unquietcode.com/blog/2011/software/introducing-uqclib