Monthly Archives: May 2010

Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Kon

Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale “Robert Johnson talks about: the need to prepare for horizontal scalability, very short release cycles associated with a streamlined deploying process, and making the entire process faster every day.” The neatest thing I got from … Continue reading →

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Another great IDEA presentation

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Kon

My favourite IDEA presenter, Vaclav Pech is talking about code analysis tools in IDEA.  He talks about Code Inspections (live and on demand) Abstract Syntax Tree The structural code inspection – AST context helps understand the Structure search and replace … Continue reading →

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MigLayout

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Kon

I’m a bit late to the game here, but it seems a ‘spiritual successor’ (my term) to JGoodies form layout called MigLayout has been around since at least 2007 and is currently campaigning to be in JDK7 The following article … Continue reading →

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Asus M51SN LCD Screen Upgrade

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Kon

I wanted to upgrade the resolution of my laptop screen recently but couldn’t find any resources in the ASUS forums or elsewhere online of anyone who had done it previously.  The other requirement I had was that I wanted to … Continue reading →

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