{"id":258,"date":"2007-07-09T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=258"},"modified":"2012-10-07T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:26:13","slug":"work-day-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Work day 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work today was actually really interesting and fun&#8230; and the day went by rather quickly too, which was awesome.<br \/>\nI spent the day working on some JUnit tests. In the process, I feel like I learned a lot more about how the system as a whole works&#8230; I mean, I&#8217;m still asking a lot of questions of other people, but at least my questions now aren&#8217;t idiotic questions, but are actually decently put-together and whatnot.<br \/>\nAlso, I learned that Java reflection is horrible and can do amazingly bad things&#8230; for example, you can access a class&#8217; private variables indirectly through reflection (I needed to access a private boolean in a certain instance, and modifying that code would have been less than ideal).<br \/>\nEw. Ew. Ew.<br \/>\nAt least it was nicer than what I was doing before, which involed multiple runtime casts and a stack of something like 8 method calls, along with hardcoded values.<\/p>\n<p>Um, yeah.<br \/>\nFoooooooooooooom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/70907zach.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work today was actually really interesting and fun&#8230; and the day went by rather quickly too, which was awesome. I spent the day working on some JUnit tests. In the process, I feel like I learned a lot more about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-gdc4s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}