Re: [The Java Posse] TDD in 2014

2014-02-24 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
means far too costly and that has other negative effects. I value being able to throw away code for something better. TDD creates a lock-in where I’m less able to do that. Regards, Kirk PS ok, I often agree with Cedric but On Feb 24, 2014, at 2:15 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com wrote

Re: [The Java Posse] #418: Comments should be treated as a lesser-evil 'code smell'.

2013-04-15 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
Sorry, I didn't mean use of regex.. I meant using the regex classes themselves -- Kirk On 2013-04-15, at 7:38 AM, Bruce Chapman brucechap...@paradise.net.nz wrote: If what we write first is the simplist thing that might work, then I'd suggest comments should explain code

Re: [The Java Posse] #418: Comments should be treated as a lesser-evil 'code smell'.

2013-04-14 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
level information being included in the javadoc it would be reachable to most even if the code were 100% readable... which is rarely ever is. -- Kirk On 2013-04-14, at 8:15 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com wrote: Imagine a world where all the standard Javadoc (e.g. java.util.collections

Re: [The Java Posse] Devoxx UK 2013 in London

2013-03-20 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
On 2013-03-20, at 9:58 AM, Martijn Verburg martijnverb...@gmail.com wrote: Booth babes are strongly discouraged at Devoxx conferences - they're not something we want encouraged in the industry, period. REALLY Then I'm not going! -- Kirk -- You received this message because you

Re: [The Java Posse] remove ask toolbar

2013-02-02 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
the right people at Oracle have now gotten the message... Regards, Kirk On 2013-02-02, at 5:37 PM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:30:57 +0100, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com wrote: It would be better for the thing to not exist at all

Re: [The Java Posse] Any experience with Azul's Zing JVM?

2013-01-30 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
that you spend time testing those things that rely on {Soft/Weak/Phantom/Final}Reference and things like that. Regards, Kirk On 2013-01-30, at 4:49 AM, Bik Dhaliwal bik_dhali...@yahoo.com wrote: Out group at my company is considering using the Zing JVM from Azul, it promises zero GC pauses

Re: [The Java Posse] Acer C7 Chromebook

2013-01-16 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
nicely so I suspect that it would run on this notebook also. I also see that things like Raspberry Pi being very disruptive to those that markets that don't need full powered laptops or desktops. So, is the Chromebook part of that disruption? -- Kirk On 2013-01-16, at 5:31 AM, Fabrizio Giudici

[The Java Posse] Acer C7 Chromebook

2013-01-15 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
What is the deal on the Chromebooks. Are they picking up traction? What do they really look like? Linux? are they worth exploring? Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Keeping Track of Multiple Passwords

2012-12-18 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
still not 100% but if the email address you need to get to doesn't exist anymore -- Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [The Java Posse] So, nobody uses Java on the desktop, right?

2012-10-19 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
I use java on the desktop and ask anyone.. I'm completely unmanageable. -- Kirk On 2012-10-19, at 10:44 PM, Josh Berry tae...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: I know there are green screen scrapers in many places. So

Re: [The Java Posse] JavaOne 2012: Anything New?

2012-10-02 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
I've posted my slides @ slideshare. - Kirk On 2012-10-02, at 8:29 AM, Simon Ochsenreither simon.ochsenreit...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any links, slides, videos, talks etc.? Haven't seen anything yet. At least the videos are not yet available afaik. -- You received this message

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Issues with Open JDK 7 on Snow Leopard (and Netbeans)

2012-09-27 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
sorry to say but mountain lion suxs On 2012-09-27, at 10:34 PM, Sven Reimers sven.reim...@gmail.com wrote: The Oracle builds will not install on Snow Leopard... (not supported by Oracle) So stay with the OpenJDK Builds from Henri Gomez, or go for Mountain Lion. -Sven On Thu, Sep

Re: [The Java Posse] OutOfMemory Errors

2012-09-26 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
I wouldn't run a profiler in prod. What I would do is trigger a heap dump on the OOME and then use MAT to find the source of the leak. I might then instrument the app to sort out details. -- Kirk On 2012-09-26, at 11:29 AM, Rakesh rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com wrote: considering the target

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: 393 perigean and stack size

2012-09-09 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
for a leak. -- Kirk On 2012-09-09, at 9:02 PM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: I knew I should've chosen bigfoot instead. :) On Sunday, September 9, 2012 6:47:29 PM UTC+2, Ricky Clarkson wrote: I think you might be mixing Elvis and Object Oriented Programming up. Elvis was real

[The Java Posse] 393 perigean and stack size

2012-09-07 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
heap to dynamically change the size of a stack frame and although we can do that for stuff in Java heap... I don't know how you'd do it generically in C heap. But again, this problem would be mute if proper support for recursion was put into the JVM. -- Kirk -- You received this message because

[The Java Posse] Mountain Lion

2012-07-31 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
are talking about problems with Mail but... -- Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
baked idea they need more time for it in the oven. Seems logical so far. So, do I wish they'd made the deadline? Yes but... not at the expense of a half baked solution. -- Kirk On 2012-07-18, at 11:30 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Jan Goyvaerts java.arti...@gmail.com

Re: [The Java Posse] good stuff on patents

2012-06-24 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
Oh man how soon the lessons of history are forgotten. In the shops I was in the mantra was, Smalltalk servers, Java front ends and who in their right mind would use C++ for any of this. I guess we all now know how that worked out ;-) On 2012-06-24, at 8:15 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Sat,

Re: [The Java Posse] Oracle vs Google - jury in

2012-05-08 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
and the same GPL + CPE license. No problems with the copyright, maybe problems with patents (the old discussion about whether GPLv2 protects enough or not). Isn't this essentially what google did? -- Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse

Re: [The Java Posse] Oracle vs Google - jury in

2012-05-07 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
An API has two consumers, those that provide the implementation and those that use the implementation. How can a copyright only apply to one and not the other? Kirk On 2012-05-07, at 10:02 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, phil swenson phil.swen...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [The Java Posse] Java support for Raspberry Pi ?

2012-03-07 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
I think you'll see a headless version come very quickly. Kirk On 2012-03-07, at 10:47 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: Does somebody know what JVM can run on a Raspberry Pi ? Or maybe somebody in here already made it work ?! :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [The Java Posse] Java support for Raspberry Pi ?

2012-03-07 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:57, Kirk Pepperdine kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: I think you'll see a headless version come very quickly. Kirk On 2012-03-07, at 10:47 AM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: Does somebody know what JVM can run on a Raspberry Pi ? Or maybe somebody in here already made it work

Re: [The Java Posse] Sitting on a Ball (Standing at a Desk)

2012-03-02 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
I found a nice place to stand and prop up my laptop on my recent flight from Abu Dhabi to Sydney... it was surprisingly comfortable to stretch out and code. Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send

[The Java Posse] hotspot and stuff

2012-03-01 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
array. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit

Re: [The Java Posse] hotspot and stuff

2012-03-01 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
On 2012-03-01, at 12:08 PM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:01:46 +0100, Kirk Pepperdine kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: On the question of Strings, StringBuffer/Builder and copying char arrays. Sorry to say that this is still a huge performance drain in many

Re: [The Java Posse] hotspot and stuff

2012-03-01 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
ASCIIString, UTF8String, and so on. Might even be able to get rid of utility classes like StringBuilder and StringBuffer... Kirk -- Skype: ricky_clarkson On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com wrote: I never really had a big problem with String being final

Re: [The Java Posse] hotspot and stuff

2012-03-01 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
. If String wasn't final, it would obviously not be immutable, duh. I can protect the underlying char[] without making the class final. Making the class final kills all chance of extending which denies developers of the tools that OO brings to the table. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: hotspot and stuff

2012-03-01 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
right, but name an (useful) API that relies on CharSequence... Kirk On 2012-03-01, at 4:04 PM, Carl Jokl wrote: I think it may cause complications protecting the internal character array if String is not final. I suppose the character array could be declared private and final

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: hotspot and stuff

2012-03-01 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
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Re: [The Java Posse] hotspot and stuff

2012-03-01 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
. Regards, Kirk On 2012-03-01, at 4:27 PM, Carl Jokl wrote: In that case then it may be better to live with the immutability and the performance and memory impact of that. On Mar 1, 3:23 pm, Kirk Pepperdine kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-01, at 4:17 PM, Carl Jokl wrote: Doesn't

Re: [The Java Posse] Experience to scaling up many cores and server clusters. Java and other technologies.

2012-01-26 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
... generally there is no chance for a transactional conflict so it's always puzzling to see people use heavy transactional resources to manage state. Regards, Kirk On 2012-01-26, at 3:29 PM, James Ward wrote: The typical approach to scaling out the web tier of Java apps has been to use a load

Re: [The Java Posse] Performance improvements in Java 7?

2012-01-26 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
Thanks for the kind words Martijn. Sorry for the shameless commercial plug but I have a schedule on my blog kirk.blog-city.com Regards, Kirk On 2012-01-26, at 3:00 PM, Steel City Phantom wrote: LOL, yea, let me figure out how im going to word the training request to get a trip to Crete

Re: [The Java Posse] Is polyglot programming dead?

2012-01-21 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
polgot programming.. well who knows wft that is but I do see more people using more langauges on the JVM. Kirk On 2012-01-21, at 5:21 PM, Alex Turner wrote: I have rarely worked somewhere where enough folks on the team had overlap in more than the core skill set. Ancillary tools

Re: [The Java Posse] Maximising performance

2012-01-09 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
Little says, add transactions and forget about throughput. Also, if you go rely on memory only, you need redundancy. In fact, for these types of systems, you always need redundancy. POS terminals won't be safe as they will lack redundancy. Regards, Kirk On 2012-01-09, at 1:15 AM, Kevin Wright

Re: [The Java Posse] Maximising performance

2012-01-08 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
regards, Kirk On 2012-01-06, at 4:11 PM, Rakesh wrote: ok, so lets say its a lottery application. That means in the run up to the big draw on Saturday night its likely to get insanely busy! I can't see a way around not needing transactions but if there is a way, please elaborate. R

Re: [The Java Posse] Maximising performance

2012-01-06 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
be surprising). Regards, Kirk On 2012-01-06, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: It's hard to answer without more information, especially regarding data retention requirements (hint: things can be made a lot faster if you don't have to keep persisting them to disk) General principles though

Re: [The Java Posse] Maximising performance

2012-01-06 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
I think all the points are good.. they just lack context.. and so not all of them are going to fit.. Kirk On 2012-01-06, at 3:18 PM, Robert Casto wrote: All these technology ideas are great but what is the task that all these people will be doing in such a short time frame? Can you avoid

Re: [The Java Posse] Actors in Java: Akka Jetlang

2012-01-03 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
. And, Akka plays beautifully with Java as well. Regards, Kirk On 2012-01-03, at 12:47 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: What version of Akka are you evaluating, and what's your time to market? If it's far enough away, your best bet is to look at the M2 release of Akka 2.0. In particular, the Event Bus

Re: [The Java Posse] Actors in Java: Akka Jetlang

2012-01-03 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
what I was suggesting were internal changes that should not have any effect on the API… Kirk On 2012-01-03, at 1:21 PM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:47:12 +0100, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com wrote: What version of Akka are you evaluating, and what's your time

Re: [The Java Posse] Keeping up to date

2011-12-29 Thread Kirk
you can't see.. ;-) Happy New Year Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Keeping up to date

2011-12-29 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
to ask the deeper questions, how is this really working? How can we tell? What adjustments can we make to increase cooperation between app and CPU? Happy New Year, Kirk On 2011-12-29, at 2:34 PM, Ricky Clarkson wrote: And/or try to apply some of what you learn in your job, obviously being sure

Re: [The Java Posse] Keeping up to date

2011-12-29 Thread Kirk Pepperdine
… but this year I hear more interest in hardware…. People just learning more about the tools of our trade… Happy New Year! -Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Non biased performance comparison between Java and Objective-C on GNUStep

2011-12-02 Thread Kirk
was no. Regards, Kirk A+ Osvaldo On Thursday, December 1, 2011 7:36:04 AM UTC-5, KWright wrote: Sure you can. The so-called placement new[1] allows you exact control over where you stick your objects. There are also various implementations available, such as pool[2], from the Boost

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Stephen Colebourne on Scala (ouch!)

2011-11-23 Thread Kirk
careful when reading what Stephen says. He's quite talented at leading you down the proverbial garden path with the intention of inspiring a very thoughtful discussion. Regards, Kirk On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Dick Wall dickw...@gmail.com wrote: The core messages behind that talk

Re: [The Java Posse] Group interviews

2011-11-21 Thread Kirk
something, solving some little problem, presenting an idea. Regards, Kirk On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:32 AM, Bill Wohler wrote: Speaking of interviewing, what do people think about group interviews? I love them! - As an interviewer. You get to see how the candidate fits into the group. You get

Re: [The Java Posse] GUI design tools ?

2011-11-03 Thread Kirk Sterrett
Try Netbeans. On Nov 2, 2011 8:26 AM, Jan Goyvaerts java.arti...@gmail.com wrote: I've been appointed to introduce graphical user interface design in my company. I'm more of an Enterprisy [sic] profile. So I'm a bit lost when it comes to tools for visual design. It's destined for web

Re: [The Java Posse] Java One or Java ho-hum

2011-10-23 Thread Kirk
maybe it's just me but I felt more excitement as this years event than in the previous few. Regards, Kirk On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Chris Koerner wrote: I thought it was just me when I didn't even want to bother listening to the live stream of the event. In many ways Oracle Java is about

Re: [The Java Posse] Java One or Java ho-hum

2011-10-23 Thread Kirk
Certainly the excitement in Java this year had to be about JVM performance and JavaFX. JavaFX finally feels real. Kirk On Oct 23, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Sean Comerford wrote: I agree with both sides. Tech geeks always want to be on the cutting edge / cool tech. 10 years ago, that WAS java

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Fork/Join criticism

2011-10-23 Thread Kirk
framework; exactly where parallelism belongs. Kirk: Unsafe direct memory modification bypasses all the managed runtime safety guarantees and security features of the Java language. No bounds checks. No memory overwrite checks, etc. And it adds unnecessary complexity. As far as I can see

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Fork/Join criticism

2011-10-22 Thread Kirk
on scalability. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options

Re: Models of Parallelism [ was Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Fork/Join criticism ]

2011-10-22 Thread Kirk
1990s. I disagree, to use one model in exclusion to all others is dogma. Java supports mutability but it also nicely supports other techniques. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Fork/Join criticism

2011-10-22 Thread Kirk
access to everything without having to play games with pointers in Java. Kind regards, Kirk Pepperdine On Oct 22, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Edward Harned wrote: I missed addressing the Unsafe class usage. First of all, why do you think they call it Unsafe? If you’re not familiar with the Class

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Fork/Join criticism

2011-10-21 Thread Kirk
Specification, we're stuck with unsafe. Regards, Kirk On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: I can retort a few of these, but certainly not all of it. --Exceedingly Complex-- Yes, but, complaining that F/J (ab)uses com.sun.misc.Unsafe is just stupid, in my opinion. The whole point

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Fork/Join criticism

2011-10-21 Thread Kirk
putting distance between immutable fields and shared mutable fields causes them to show up in difference cache lines. Reads from different threads won't cause cache line flushing. Regards, Kirk On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:56 AM, ricky.clark...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't followed this very well

Re: [The Java Posse] Hiring developers outside the development offices country

2011-10-17 Thread Kirk
is needed and can commit to delivering on that commitment. Regards, Kirk On Oct 17, 2011, at 11:15 PM, phil swenson wrote: I've never seen hiring people in other countries to work as remote members of a team work well. Add in time zone differences, language barriers, crappy phone systems, and your

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaOne 2009 - Daily summaries from another dude's perspective...

2011-09-15 Thread Kirk
In this webinar, Heinz Kabutz will go searching for a memory leak in a piece of code written by Kirk Pepperdine. No idea whether Heinz will find it using his usual approach, so come and you might be able to have a nice laugh at his expense. Title: Live Memory Leak Hunt Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011

Re: [The Java Posse] Java closure syntax decided

2011-09-08 Thread Kirk
It's shaping up very nicely On Sep 9, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: Here is the (apparently) final decision, from Brian. Examples: x = x + 1 (x) = x + 1 (int x) = x + 1 (int x, int y) = x + y (x, y) = x + y (x, y) = { System.out.printf(%d + %d = %d%n,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: TIOBE of the month: Java still growing, F# enters top 20, scala still languishing in the 51-100 range.

2011-09-07 Thread Kirk
Cedric, +1, measure of error and a fine one at that! On Sep 7, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, martin oder...@gmail.com wrote: As an antidote to Tiobe: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Scala%2C+f%23l= This shows Scala at 0.02% of the jobs

Re: [The Java Posse] Patent Wars reach new low - Microsoft and Nokia make desperate jackass move.

2011-09-02 Thread Kirk
Brilliant because now MS and Nokia no longer take the pr hit for patent trolling.. awesome Regards, Kirk On Sep 2, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/nokia-microsoft-tap-mosaid-to-handle-huge-patent-trove/article2149827/ Basically

Re: [The Java Posse] Where have all the Senior developers gone?

2011-08-25 Thread Kirk
. But you're clearly not looking for any of the skills that I have to offer and I doubt you'd hire me because of that. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #360: Some comments

2011-08-22 Thread Kirk
My question is, what is new and innovative about touch screens. I seem to recall using them prior to the iPhone's existance. OH. I see, someone married and already existing technology with an already existing technology. So un-obvious Regards, Kirk Pepperdine On Aug 22, 2011, at 9:12 AM

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #360: Some comments

2011-08-22 Thread Kirk
for damages.. so even better. And face it, the real reason everyone here is annoyed is because we're not able to troll ourselves. No? Unless groups (like this one) start taking action, demanding the system be fixed, this is just whining and quite frankly it's kind of boring. Regards, Kirk

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #360: Some comments

2011-08-22 Thread Kirk
. Regards, Kirk On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Karsten Silz wrote: On Aug 22, 9:52 am, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: My question is, what is new and innovative about touch screens. I seem to recall using them prior to the iPhone's existance. OH. I see, someone married and already

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: -Xmx is hurting java

2011-08-17 Thread Kirk
How about deploying Oracle RDB? Regards, Kirk On Aug 17, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Michael Neale wrote: I mean that the JVM isn't special in deployment - there are many other systems that have to be dealt with - but it is one of the most problematic. The explanations to do with GC implementation

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: -Xmx is hurting java

2011-08-16 Thread Kirk
. Regards, Kirk Mike. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/bDGDQOGBVNYJ. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: -Xmx is hurting java

2011-08-16 Thread Kirk
, tablet, desktop,.. what ever.. but some expert some where as looked into the issues of how to get that done. The more complex the system, the more one off or customized the deployment, the more expertise is needed. Regards, Kirk On Aug 15, 4:52 pm, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: -Xmx is hurting java

2011-08-15 Thread Kirk
, Kirk On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Matthew Farwell wrote: 2011/8/15 Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com If an implementation was not constrained by requiring a contiguous heap and there was plenty of resources available, then a reasonable action could be to reserve more memory from the OS

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: -Xmx is hurting java

2011-08-15 Thread Kirk
model and intricate details about generations and collector strategies. there are so many things wrong with this statement I'm not even going to start. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: -Xmx is hurting java

2011-08-15 Thread Kirk
I've been in many trenches and trust me, the way to go in is with all your toys.. and if you don't have them you've no business in the trench. Regards, Kirk On Aug 15, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Casper Bang wrote: there are so many things wrong with this statement I'm not even going to start. Heh

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: -Xmx is hurting java

2011-08-14 Thread Kirk
tuned for their JVM. Nothing wrong with this but I could go on. Regards, Kirk On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:25 PM, mgkimsal wrote: Why, then, on my JVM web app, when I specify -Xmx2g, do I see a Java process eating up 10g on my system? -Xmx doesn't seem to honor anything I give it - it just

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-11 Thread Kirk
+1, @ least 75% if the Oracle vs Google case is typical. On Aug 10, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Jess Holle wrote: Until the patent office can figure out how to judge real innovation and uniqueness in a software patent it should stop issuing any. They should also declare that existing software

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-11 Thread Kirk
. Gee, I've never seen that happen ;-) 'cept for the time when the small company I was working for was being sued. Legal was ~400k / month and this went on for close to a year before the company finally went bankrupt. But to be honest, it wasn't the suite that bankrupted to company Kirk

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-10 Thread Kirk
to a different arbitration/review process. And the patent office needs to bear some of the responsibility for this mess. Regards, Kirk On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: Non-transferable is even

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
this post seems too personally directed IMHO. Regards, Kirk On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:18 AM, phil swenson wrote: Yes, giant companies aren't hurt too badly by patents. They pay off the trolls. They build patent hoards for counter-suits. I still don't see why software needs patents? We

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
+1, I disagree with Cedric all the time but I still like him ;-) Kirk On Aug 9, 2011, at 4:56 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Ricky Clarkson ricky.clark...@gmail.com wrote: He is the right-wing version of a techie. I'm used to having people disagreeing with me

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
that their competitors had *not* paid and then they realized that they were able to offer better indemnity that their competitors were not able to. So now, in a very perverse twisted way of thinking, they turned paying the troll into an advantage. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
be to put a stipulation that the owner has to be making some effort to use the patent or forfeit it. Use it or lose it. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
The real reason that software should not be patentable is that it is a recipe in that code specifies how to combine hardware to achieve a particular result. It's like baking a cake but instead of shortening and flour you combine registers Regards, Kirk -- You received this message

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
of, nor do they care about PR or just about anything else... only the lifestyle this broken system is going to fund for them. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To view this discussion on the web visit https

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
On Aug 9, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: On Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:03:01 PM UTC+2, kirk wrote: This is just a hunch, but, perhaps FOSS projects are more popular than normal because of the patent system. It's much more difficult to sue the _creator_ of a FOSS project

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Russel Winder wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:03 +0200, Kirk wrote: [ . . . ] Long story short, this is not a nice system and the people playing are in it for the money and they don't give rats ass about you or your project or your IP or the guy or company

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-09 Thread Kirk
all that well. The countries that created a better climate for small businesses are much better off. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-08 Thread Kirk
as easy as it seems. Which brings me back to TestNG. How much protection to do you have and how many copies of it are there? My guess in goose egg on both counts. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-08 Thread Kirk
, Kirk On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Josh Berry tae...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/8 Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com: I've found this to be true in the other direction as well: people who want to completely abolish the current system without

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-08 Thread Kirk
of putting it into patent protection it was put into RD. Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-08 Thread Kirk
Sorry, it's not a red herring.. patent trolls will still go after you and just shut you down if they figure out what you're doing. Kirk On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: Copying isn't as easy as it seems

Re: [The Java Posse] Java7 and loops - Before FUD gets out of hand...

2011-08-03 Thread Kirk
I don't think this is a denial of the bug, it's just that out of the blocks there is a huge amount of FUD about a problem that the Lucene guys could have looked at quite a while ago. Regards, Kirk On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Mark Derricutt wrote: If it was just a broken lucene then maybe

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java7 and loops - Before FUD gets out of hand...

2011-08-02 Thread Kirk
dozens a clients per year). Bottom line, everyone knew it was coming the builds were freely avaliable. I've been using 7 on my Mac for months so I don't have much sympathy in this case. Regards, Kirk On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:53 AM, opinali wrote: Yes that looks clear from the article. How

Re: [The Java Posse] Query to Java status on OS X Lion (10.7)

2011-07-22 Thread Kirk
+1 On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Mark Derricutt wrote: When you install Lion there is no Java -preinstalled-. However, if you run any java application, or run java from the command line then Lion will prompt you, and automatically install java for you, then run the application you

Re: [The Java Posse] Query to Java status on OS X Lion (10.7)

2011-07-22 Thread Kirk
I don't know.. I still see client Java being used all over the place. In fact I just got off a call from lead that who's client is pure Java. I know many more similar cases. Regards, Kirk On Jul 22, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Carl Jokl carl.j

Re: [The Java Posse] James Gosling Says He Doesn't Care About Java

2011-06-30 Thread Kirk
shameful sensationalist headline. The next line is, what I do care about is the JVM. It's been like that for many people for quite some time. Kirk On Jun 30, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Mario Fusco mario.fu...@gmail.com wrote: Most people talk

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Spring's Rod Johnson on OSGi

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
to make it any harder? Regards, Kirk On Jun 24, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Chris Adamson wrote: Looking at the TSS article, I'm surprised it took over an hour for the personal attacks to show up in the comments. I remember the OSGi community being much quicker to anger than that. On Jun 23, 4:22 pm

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Spring's Rod Johnson on OSGi

2011-06-23 Thread Kirk
at the code but without voice I'm hard pressed to guess at the OSGi message here. Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #353 - Natural Scala persistence

2011-06-21 Thread Kirk
sorting out the complexities for you. Regards, Kirk On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Steve Lindsay wrote: On Jun 21, 3:01 am, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: Again, I'm not against immutability, it just seems that we've all picked up on that sound bite and have forgotten all of the other

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #353 - Natural Scala persistence

2011-06-21 Thread Kirk
an object take responsibility for it's internal state takes care of a lot of problems. Just look at actors. Regards, Kirk On Jun 21, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Kevin Wright wrote: On 21 June 2011 03:40, Steve Lindsay stephen.a.lind...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 21, 3:01 am, Kirk kirk.pepperd

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Dick's dependency injection framework

2011-06-21 Thread Kirk
wow and congrats on the first release... where did you find the time ;-) Kirk On Jun 21, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Dick Wall wrote: Thanks to ptillemans - https://github.com/ptillemans - the documentation is now much improved on the subcut project - it's the same information, but it looks nice

[The Java Posse] Do your garbage collection logs speak to you part deux.

2011-06-21 Thread Kirk
Heinz and I had so much fun on the first webinar and we had a number of requests for more and I've got a ton more materials so we've decided to hold part II of how to read GC logs. Here is the URL to register. http://www.javaspecialists.eu/forum/showthread.php?p=936 Regards, Kirk -- You

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #353 - Natural Scala persistence

2011-06-20 Thread Kirk
not against immutability, it just seems that we've all picked up on that sound bite and have forgotten all of the other colors that make the world interesting. Regards, Kirk On Jun 20, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Dick Wall wrote: Hi Kirk On Jun 17, 5:58 am, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [The Java Posse] #354: Strangest Loop Competition, 2011 Edition

2011-06-17 Thread Kirk
for (;true;) {} shorter and also burns cycles ;-) Kirk On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Weiqi Gao wrote: I just finished listening to #354, in which Dick Wall calls for another round of the Strangest Loop Competition to win tickets to the Strange Loop 2001 Conference in St. Louis, MO, USA

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #353 - Natural Scala persistence

2011-06-17 Thread Kirk
complicated than straight up immutability but then we don't have to be geniuses like Doug, Cliff, Brian, Rich, Guy we just need to learn how to ride on the coat sleeves of these guys. Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse

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