Google Notebook + Gears

Since moving mostly to a Mac for software development, one piece of software on Windows that I have been unable to find a replacement for is Microsoft OneNote. I use OneNote as a repository for notes and coding snippets that I find useful, want to try out, or just simply want to remember for some [...]

fun with FileReader

This morning I was innocently writing a simple program to read from a file using FileReader. I had setup the typical loop to read until the end of file was reached.
Reader r = new FileReader(“myfile”);
int i = -1;
while ((i = r.read()) != -1) {…}
So then I went about testing my program and [...]