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Exception Handling in Distributed Systems
Here's another technique that's worked well in the last few systems I've had a hand in, this time for coordinating exception handling within a... more »
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Still using an old JDK? Why?
I was interested in how prevalent JDK 1.4 and earlier were in production so I created a very short poll (3 questions, only the first is required). It... more »
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Set your Java 7 Phasers to stun
Saw a very interesting note today from Doug Lea on the concurrency-interest mailing list. Looks like they are extracting a useful internal part of the... more »
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Apache Harmony: Thanks for the TreeMap Work!
Controlled measurements showed the "fat" TreeMap significantly faster with in order traversals, and improved our SPECjbb2005 score by a solid 3-5%... more »
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Phat Data
I think that increased data volumes will impact day to day programing work far more than multicore will.
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Alternative syntax for BGGA closure
In my last blog entry, i've said it was time to discuss about the BGGA closure syntax. So here is my proposed syntax.
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This is how I want all project web sites to look…
I thought I’d list these rules because I suspect others are like me: we’re extremely busy, we work too many hours, and are involved with too many... more »
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Launch Java Applications from Assembly Language Programs
Here I deal with the technique for invoking Java programs from an ASM process through a demo application that calls a Java method from assembly... more »
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RedHat has release candidate for JBoss App Server 5 - is it too late?
Surprise, surprise, JBoss App Sever 5 has reached a release candidate.
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Clustered Scala Actors
The first thing to do was to come up with a sample problem. After some thought, I settled on writing a parallel Fold implementation. As a quick recap:... more »
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Singleton Methods
Ruby has a neat feature called Singleton Methods. The idea behind them is that you can define a method on an instance of an object, and that method... more »
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The Easiest Java XML Binding
I have an XML document and I want to use that document to populate a corresponding set of Java objects. This is a commonly encountered scenario when... more »
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The new internet traffic spikes
What isn't entirely obvious in the above graphs? These spikes happen inside 60 seconds. The idea of provisioning more servers (virtual or not) is... more »
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HashMap.get() can cause an infinite loop!
Yes, it is true. HashMap.get() can cause an infinite loop. Everyone I’ve talked to didn’t believe it either, but yet there it is — right in front of... more »
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@SuppressWarnings values
This build-in annotation, usable since JDK 1.5.0_06, allowed the developer to signal the compiler in the form of the @SuppressWarnings annotation. It... more »
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20 Wrenches In The Software Startup Machinery
I have had the misfortune of personally making every one of these mistakes during my years as a software entrepreneur. I am currently reviewing a... more »
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Top Ten Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
With the release of Firefox 3, I thought I would share my top ten Firefox shortcuts.
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Parsing dates for web feeds in .NET
Parsing dates in Atom and RSS
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Cheap Tricks XV - Static Collections in Java
Here's another cheap trick around reducing the common need for a static block populated list
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@SuppressWarnings
One of the built-in annotations in Java 5 is SuppressWarnings. You can use this annotation on all the available annotation levels (class, field,... more »
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HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakIn SomeGenericOrParameterizedType PatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor.java
A more humorous class in the wild
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Nothing's guaranteed
Getting rid of unreachable code with BGGA closures
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Schwartzian Transforms in Java
Libraries like Java's Collections API contain numerous algorithms tuned to give good performance in a theoretical 'typical case', but it can be very... more »
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