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JavaONE so far

Thursday, 8 May 2008 4:38 P GMT+01

Though JavaONE maybe half over but for me it's just about to start. I signed up for a way too many sessions and in the end had to ditch a number of them in favor of more time for lab preparation and last minute meetings with various people.The bi

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JavaONE HOL

Monday, 5 May 2008 9:37 P GMT+01

I finally got into the lab today to test my hands on lab. Unfortunately the materials were printed from an older version of the slides. I'm going to look into posting the lab session here after JavaONE.The exciting thing was to see the lab show u

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Java on Mac Catching up?

Wednesday, 30 April 2008 9:29 A GMT+01

I just noticed that Apple has just released a new version of the JDK 1.5 . Included in the bundle is the 1.6.0_05 64 bit release. So does this mean Mac is finally catching up. IMHO, no because I'm trying to look at what is happening with Java 7.

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Upside down benchmarking

Sunday, 20 April 2008 7:32 P GMT+01

One of the more difficult puzzlers that I presented in Vegas has to do with benchmarks, or configurations that resulted in response times that went in a completely different direction than expected. For example, one application that I was working wit

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TED releases Gore's new thinking on Climate change

Saturday, 12 April 2008 8:44 A GMT+01

TED has released Al Gore's session at their last conference. In that video he shows the amount of ice loss from the Northern ice cap. Al show evidence that the remaining summer ice pack could be gone with-in five years. He also compares Earth to

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