Monthly Archives: August 2009

That’s what I call performance

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Jan Machacek

We are completing work on caching and routing tier we added to a lived-in system. The performance increase is very substantial and I will write a lot more about how we achieved this next week. For now, I’ll wet your … Continue reading →

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Jeabu is coming

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Jan Machacek

Our new open-source project, Jeabu, is on its way. If you are very adventurous and interested in the earliest code, pull it from http://github.com/janm399/jeabu/tree/master.

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Getting Ready to Rumble

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Andrew Chalkley

This year I have entered the Rails Rumble. I am entering as a Solo developer and will be competing with over 200 teams of up to 4 people. For those of you who don’t know what the Rails Rumble is, … Continue reading →

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Looking for a ${property}

Posted on August 24, 2009 by cornelf

“Location, Location, Location” may not be enough. Having property files loaded using ProperyPlaceholderConfigurer bean or the modern <context:property-placeholder> can become a real pain when the placeholders are distributed among the jars. <context:property-placeholder location=”classpath*:*.properties”/> Well, only location can be set here, … Continue reading →

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COBOL is fifty

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Jan Machacek

Not today, of course, COBOL celebrated its fiftieth birthday in April. It is the hidden language, no one will openly admit that they have COBOL systems, yet there are millions of lines of COBOL code that no one dares to … Continue reading →

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Spring User Group speaker icebreaker

Posted on August 12, 2009 by cornelf

The ice has been broken. The first step on the path to future speeches has been taken. First of all I would like to thank each and every one in the audience for the great support. You can now download … Continue reading →

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nmnon

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Jan Machacek

If you are in charge of a garden-variety Linux system, you’ll probably like nmon. It is a performance monitoring tool that combines statistics for the core kernel objects. You can see process list (similar to top), memory, network, block I/O … Continue reading →

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SpringSource and VMWare

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Jan Machacek

Now that the news that VMWare bought SpringSource for a lot of money is out, let’s think about what it means for Spring developers. This post is pure speculation, something I would like to happen; the only satisfaction I will … Continue reading →

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RIA Community Leader at Skills Matter

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Andrew Chalkley

Some of you may know that I teach the 4 day Core Ruby on Rails Course which includes BDD with Cucumber. After delivering a passionate course I was invited to be the Web & RIA Community Leader at Skills Matter, … Continue reading →

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