that’s great…

bad developer…

I’m not sure if I’ve worked with this guy before, but I get the feeling he’s talking about me. I personally like doing items 1-10. Just kidding… or am I?

cube envy…

I guess I should be happy with my cube size.

AI the movie, meets the Daily WTF…

An oddly heart-warming story from the Daily WTF…

yeah, he gets it…

Dharmesh Shah posted this back in November, but I just got around to reading it. It’s 7 simple insights about co-founders. Some I knew, most I’ve learned the hard way. Hey, isn’t that what life’s about? Learning stuff - I hope so, or I am doing this all wrong!

resin-3.1 performance

Not too long ago I wondered (aloud), what the heck happened to Resin-3.0 performance. I found that after upgrading from resin-3.0.19 to resin-3.0.23, and deploying the expanded war, startup time went from 90 to 117 seconds. OK, so I was looking to use some newer JEE features. Although Tomcat 5.5 flys, having to add ActiveMQ for JMS support was more of a footprint than I’d like. With Resin, I just had to 3 lines per message queue. Even that’s gotten simpler in the newer 3.1 releases.

I digress. In the release notes for resin-3.1.3, Caucho claims their startup time has been reduced. I had to see this for myself. I tested this by moving a project with 2 web-apps  from resin-3.0.23 to resin-3.1.4. This dropped the startup time from ~87 seconds to ~47 seconds. Yeah, I’d call that an improvement.