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		<title>Beware of using java.util.Scanner with &#8220;/z&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Java's Scanner, a regex of "/z" for "end of input" doesn't always read the entire input if it's a SequenceInputStream.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closingbraces.net&amp;blog=544939&amp;post=316&amp;subd=closingbraces&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone using the "Enum as singleton" technique for implementing singletons in Java? Any good or bad experiences with it?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closingbraces.net&amp;blog=544939&amp;post=282&amp;subd=closingbraces&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third-time lucky with EJB</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After learning EJB 1 and 2 but never using them, it's somewhat gratifying to now be using EJB 3 for real.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closingbraces.net&amp;blog=544939&amp;post=253&amp;subd=closingbraces&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Servlet 3.0 &#8211; A spaghetti API?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Servlet 3.0 seems to have massively increased the complexity of the Servlet API, and to my mind a lot of it is starting to look like the API equivalent of "spaghetti code". Here's just one relatively minor example (but please, please, please put me straight if I've missed the meaning of this and it's all really simple and elegant).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closingbraces.net&amp;blog=544939&amp;post=245&amp;subd=closingbraces&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why would you ask for zero bytes from a Java InputStream?</title>
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