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Video Presentation for Sacramento JUG

Thursday, 5 November 2009 3:42 P GMT+01

I'm in the bay area for my training course when i had a request to speak at a JUG. I was so busy with other things at the time that I didn't pay much attention to the details of the request and just responded, sure, lets do it as long as it h

tags: java performance measure

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Proof that Java is still the fasted language and other random thoughts

Monday, 19 October 2009 10:28 A GMT+01

A few years back Jack released a newsletter on April 1st that proclaimed Java as the fasted language ever. In that news letter to pointed out "stunning and irrefutable" evidence to support his claim. The email we received in response to tha

tags: java performance benchmarking fastest

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awk????

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 11:06 A GMT+01

It's been a while since I've used awk and like all things that are un-used, they tend to get a bit rusty. Today I needed to parse a column out of a text file and the formatting was very uneven to the put that cut wasn't going to.. well...

tags: awk data processing

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Monty Hall Revisited

Saturday, 10 October 2009 2:07 P GMT+01

A few weeks ago while sitting on a sunny Greek island I got into a conversation with a friend about the Monty Hall Problem. During the conversation I came up with a hand waving explanation that seemed to satisfy him that the correct solution was to a

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Mixing long and short lived objects

Sunday, 13 September 2009 11:16 P GMT+01

When blog-city was in it’s infancy Alan Williamson wasn’t using a lot of hardware to support the system (new stuff was in the mail). In fact, it was running on a single PIII 850MHz PC with 512M of ram and a single disk.

tags: jvm mysql garbage collecdtion gc g1 tuning performance blue dragon

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