Who's Serious About Search...
I was chatting with someone from Yahoo last night and I mentioned that while I use Yahoo as my home page and e-mail I almost always search on Google.... more »
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Hacking java.lang.String
Interesting blog on instrumenting java.lang.String for dynamic compression
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DZone Suggestion, More Comments
I like DZone a lot. I read it regularly and post to it when practical. I like the rising links, I like the popular links, I even like the voting... more »
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Why I love and hate statics in Java
I was chatting with some fellow geeks earlier this evening and it occurred to me that I've said to people that they should almost ALWAYS use static... more »
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Using Web Clipping to Monitor DZone
Now that I've installed Leopard I figured I would try out a few of it's new features. At first I didn't really get this new Web clip button on Safari.... more »
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No Java, Bye Bye Macbook Pro's...
I have liked Mac's for as long as they have had OS X, didn't like them before that. Over 50 percent our Development/Field Eng team, have a mac. Hate... more »
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Goodbye Randy Pausch
Don't need to be a geek to learn from this one. One of the best CS professors I ever had is going too pass in the next month or so at the way to young... more »
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3.5 Rules in Distributed Algorithm Design
A few basic rules for designing scale-out algorithms
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Automated Install, Build, Run and Test with Maven and Terracotta
I've been working on Terracotta for a long time. What I've noticed is that every few months some improvement comes a long that makes a big difference.... more »
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Distributed Web Continuations with RIFE and Terracotta
This article discusses how the RIFE Web framework, and its use of continuations to maintain conversational state, integrates with the open-source... more »
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E-mail sucks!
More lost information, mistakes, fights and miscommunication can be attributed to e-mail than almost any other cause I can think of. Here are a few of... more »
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What were those results again?
This is a small follow up to my blogs about anti-patterns. When trying to debug a complex logic or performance problem one of the most important... more »
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More Lies - Distributed Performance Testing Anti-patterns Part 3 of 4
In part 3 out of 4 of this blog, much like parts 1 and 2 I will hit on anti-patterns that allow your performance testing of clustered and or... more »
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Distributed Performance Testing Anti-patterns Part 2 of 4
In Part 1 of this 4 part blog I hit upon 3 Anti-Patterns that can make one's performance testing a poor representation of reality. Here I'm covering 3... more »
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Why Your Distributed Tests Are Lying to You: Anti-Patterns of Distributed Application Testing and Tuning - Part 1
Clustering and distributing Java applications has never been easier than it is today (see Terracotta). As a result, writing good distributed... more »
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Why Ning is the thing...
Ning is a well done meta-site that puts Social network Site Building in the hands of virtual novices.
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When Hiring, have a plan
Short blog on making sure you know what you are looking for in hiring and some suggestions
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Positive thoughts on Safari 3 mac
Seems like a lot of negative stuff flying around about Safari 3 for the mac. I like it so I thought I would give a brief blog on why.
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Quick blog on Latency v Throughput
Talks about how people use one word, speed, to describe two concepts, latency and throughput
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Programming by Wishful Thinking
short blog on writing the hight level flow of an app before actually filling in the methods that make the app up.
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More Fun With Spring Scopes
Quick write up on some fun clustering stuff for custom scoped beans in Spring
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The Wisdom of Open Source Crowds?
The Wisdom of Crowds was a very popular book this year. Slowly but slowly, firms are starting to realize that "crowd wisdom" is not just for... more »
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Using Open Terracotta DSO on OS X
Short list of instructions for using Terracotta DSO on OS X
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Performance Tuning with thread dumps
A blog on using thread dumps in Java for for finding and fixing performance issues.
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