Monthly Archives: September 2010

Preventative Battery Maintenance

Posted on September 29, 2010 by neversleepz

Over the last few days, I’ve been putting my aging battery in my ASUS M51SN (now some 2.5+ years old) through some torture of plugin / plugout for watching vids/podcasts that incidentally almost drain the battery whilst I clean the … Continue reading →

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HTML 5 Intro

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Kon

Of all the recent HTML 5 noise of late, and some pretty flashy webapps to be demoed from them, I got a little concerned that the HTML we know and love was going to turn into some RIA scripting beast.  … Continue reading →

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Testing Presentations

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Kon

Their has been a presentation I watched last year that absolutely changed my opinion on how I tested and how I designed.  It was one of those presentations that just made sense and I cant believe I haven’t blogged about … Continue reading →

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Procrastinators Workflow

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Kon

or workflow to help procrastinators.

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Seven Groovy usage patterns for Java developers

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Kon

A colleague at my work recently added a Groovy console into one of our applications and it was this that reminded me of the ‘keyhole surgery’ pattern that I watched in a presentation last year by Groovy In Action author … Continue reading →

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How to Start Getting Professional about Software Development

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Kon

A great blog that simply states management philosophy and the flak that you may experience trying to apply, sometimes simple, dev practices.  It relates to keeping yourself grounded, and patient, and trying out new practices where you can.  The final point in … Continue reading →

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NoSQL at Twitter presentation

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Kon

Man these guys are smart.  http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/nosql-at-twitter-nosql-eu-2010 Talks about Twitters many different approaches to storage (Hadoop, Cassandra, FlockDB) and the tools used in querying of that data to answer questions (Pig)

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Now reading…

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Kon

The JavaFX Application Dev Cookbook arrived for me to review today. It promises to provide some worked examples of using JavaFX in the real world, which is always handy.  After all, why re-invent the wheel? I’m keen to see how … Continue reading →

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Tempus library for programmatic thread dumps

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Kon

Turns out doing a CTRL+Break (or equivalent kill <signal> <pid> on *nix) programmatically is a bit harder than I thought.  This thread talks about ways to do it, but the easiest was to use the Tempus library which has a … Continue reading →

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Mongo DB

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Kon

Watched this presentation about how Sourceforge chose MongoDB for their customer facing webapp.  You know, the one you go to download Azuerus and all those open source apps from Sourceforge chose Mongo because it offered them high read performance although … Continue reading →

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