Showing posts with label Java. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Java. Show all posts
Monday, January 17, 2011

Scala Considered Harmful For Large Projects?

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Original Tweet Last week, I was having an extended email conversation with Geir Magnusson Jr. (yep, that Geir, of Gilt Groupe/MongoDB...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Java Initialization Barrier Pattern With AtomicBoolean

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I've found myself starting to use this little mini-pattern. You might find it useful. private final AtomicBoolean _hasBeenInitialized...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Oracle/Google Java/Android suit and a forthcoming blog post

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For those of you who aren't aware, I don't just spit out blog posts stream-of-consciousness. I mean, it might seem that way based o...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

2009 Predictions Revisited

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As promised, I'm coming back to revisit my predictions for 2009 to see how I've done. As predicted by virtue of my fuzziness, I was...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Java APIs and Ivy: Click-Through Agreements Suck

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We've been using Ivy for project dependency management at OpenGamma since day-one. It was one of the earliest decisions we made, and I...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Ivy Tutorial Strikes Back

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We're continuing on with the Jim Moores Guest Post series, as Ivy proceeds to destroy his source code directory. After my previous pr...

Ant, Ivy 2.0.0, and java.net.UnknownHostException

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This is a Very Special Guest Post by Jim Moores , another one of the OpenGamma team. We thought this would be useful to the interwebs, and u...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Sybase JDBC Drivers Ignore Your Database Selection

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A very common strategy in doing database-driven functional tests is for each user to have their own database instance on a shared test machi...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Oracle + Sun : A Java Perspective

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Smarter people than I have written about this , but having worked at several of the major players here (a summer at Oracle proper, 12 months...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Qt Going LGPL: The Java Angle

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( One of Many articles on Qt allowing LGPL licensing ). Assuming that this includes the Jambi components (Java/Qt bindings), which I can...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

RabbitMQ/AMQP OSGi Integration

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I had a chance to meet up with Neil Bartlett today, and got to talk to him about his RabbitMQ OSGi integation (note that I believe that ev...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2009 Predictions

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Just a quick set of predictions for 2009. I'll revisit nearer the end of the year to see how I've done. Messaging Breaks Out Right n...
Monday, November 10, 2008

IEEE 754 Floating Point Binary Representations

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Just to gather up a whole bunch of stuff I had to slog through and make this more googleable, allow me to summarize some various trivia havi...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Linux Fork Performance Redux: Large Pages

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After a comment from Kostas on my last Linux Fork Test post, I worked with my esteemed colleagues to try things out with large page support...
Friday, October 31, 2008

JAXB 2.x and @XmlElement(required=true)

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We've been quite happily using the JAXB reference implementations for a while now, until someone actually evaluated whether the XML tha...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Java5 vs. Java6: ThreadPoolExecutor Difference

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If you do thread-pooling Java without calling into Executors.new* (e.g. you're constructing your own instances of ThreadPoolExecutor ) ...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Tiny Java Containers: None Of Them Do What I Want

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Dear Lazyweb, Although I find it difficult to focus on programming while BBC is live broadcasting Olympic Table Tennis, focus I must. But I ...