Yes, language propaganda again. Ain’t it fun ?
Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it’s both fun and educational – at least for me). So, there: I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to ...Java going down, Python way up, and more …
According to O’Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is ...
Java Persistence with Hibernate – the book, my review
You have to know that I’ve tried. Honestly, I did. I hoped to be able to read each and every page of “Java persistence with Hibernate” (revised edition of “Hibernate in action”), by Christian Bauer and Gavin King. But, I gave up before reading a third of it, then ...
Monitoring memcached with cacti
Memcached is a clusterable cache server from Danga. Or, as they call, it a distributed memory object caching system. Well, whatever. Just note that memcached clients exist for lots of languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl) – mainstream languages in the web world. A lighter version of server was rewritten in ...
Monitor everything on your Linux servers – with SNMP and Cacti
UPDATE: Did you knew there’s an official Cacti guide? Find it at Cacti 0.8 Beginner’s Guide
Two free open-source tools are running the show for network and server-activity monitoring .... For more info about SNMP please don’t hesitate to take a look at Essential SNMP, Second Edition
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SEO eye for the Tapestry guy
One of my previous customers has a Jakarta Tapestry [3.0.x] based site. The site is subscription-based, but it also has a public area – if you browse each and every link you should be able to view few thousand of [dynamically generated] pages. No SEO* consulting was involved in ...
QOTD : java.util.concurrent Kicks Ass and Takes Names
The java.util.concurrent package in JDK 1.5 is worth its weight in Internet porn.
From studdugie on JavaJCS: the good, the bad and the undocumented
Java Caching System is one of the mainstream opensource and free Java caches*, along with OSCache, EHCache and JbossCache. Choosing JCS may be the subject of an article by itself, since this API has a vastly undeserved reputation of being a buggy, slow cache. Exactly this reputation has motivated the ...
HTTP compression filter on servlets : good idea, wrong layer
The Servlet 2.3 specifications introduced the notion of servlet filters, powerful tools but unfortunately used in quite unimaginative ways. Let’s take for instance this ONJava article (“Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have”) written by one of the coauthors to Servlets and JavaServer Pages; the J2EE Web ...
Using HTTPUnit ‘out of the box’
Recently, HTTPUnit project reached version 1.6. While this nifty API is mainly targeted at unit testing webapps, I have also succesfully used it for other purposes such as :
HTTPUnit as a benchmarking tool There is a plethora of web benchmarking tools out there, both freeware and commercial. However, my ...