Monthly Archives: August 2009

Free UML Tools

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Kon

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Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Kon

Following my previous post on IDEA keyboard shortcuts, I was inspired to look for the same thing for Firefox.  In particular I use the Copy URL function a fair bit but saddened to learn it doesn’t have a shortcut provided … Continue reading →

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Articles on being a better programmer (Career Development Advice)

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Kon

Quick Reads This is a quick read: Making the Good Programmer … Better And another: 5 Tips for creating good code every day; or how to become a good software developer Longer Reads Find where you’re at, Improve It and … Continue reading →

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Key Promoter for IDEA

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Kon

This is one of the best plugins that I’ve come across in IDEA.  It simply pops up an unobtrusive window every time you do something with the mouse, that has an equivalent keyboard shortcut to remind you how you can … Continue reading →

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Some Groovy Little Tips

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Kon

My favourite Groovy/Java/IntelliJ web presenter, Vaclav Pech, has a short 20min Parleys talk on using Groovy with IntelliJ. What I found neat was IntelliJ’s ability to take a Java class, rename it as a Groovy one, then refactor all the … Continue reading →

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JVM garbage collection behaviour on virtual machines

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Kon

Interesting blog about how multiple virtual machines running on the same metal, each with their own JVM instances performing garbage collection can degrade app performance when the hypervisor has to swap out memory http://www.devwebsphere.com/devwebsphere/2009/08/why-you-shouldnt-overcommit-memory-on-virtualized-servers-running-java.html Given at work, we will be … Continue reading →

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.htaccess Tips

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Kon

Sometimes I have to play with htaccess files.  This is usually followed by a process of ‘its been a while since I used htaccess, what are the options again?’ and a search of various blogs, manuals and other articles. Here … Continue reading →

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