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T-Mobile, shame on you!

Friday, 25 December 2009 9:22 P GMT+01

It all started in August when our friend died under tragic circumstances. His wife, devastated by the loss, has been steady enough to work through the unpleasant mound of paperwork that follows death. In the middle of dealing with all the complexitie

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Single threaded?

Thursday, 17 December 2009 3:04 P GMT+01

I was running the Scala compiler and was quite surprised to see this.

tags: scala java threading

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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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