One of my conversations was commented on by Dr Anton Chuvakin. I had replied to him in his comments, but unfortunately he keeps reposting the article to new services without bothering to address the reply, so I am putting it here as a central reference.
Basically, Anton (if I may call him this) thinks that the [...]
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I am presenting at JavaOne again this year, My session is TS-1669 entitled ” [...]
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Andrew is confused why his ‘drab’ article on speeding up JBoss is much more popular than his repost of a deep voodoo article asking other people to implement someting that he finds interesting. I wonder!
I have linked to the speeding up article when I saw it, because it was something useful either immediately or later [...]
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Ever tried running multiple Tomcat on the same machine and have that fail because of the port conflict. And not because of the HTTP listen port conflict - because you did know about that one and changed it. But, rather, because of the other ports that are open out of the box as well that [...]
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Recently, I had been contacted by one of the Chainsaw’s developers - Scott Deboy (no blog yet). He asked if I had any feedback on the tool’s new iteration as it would seem to be a good match to my interests and blog’s goal.
I had looked at the Chainsaw a while ago, but it was [...]
What is a server access log and how much information can one actually extract from it? If you don’t know, read this good introductory article on the subject.
And if you find the article interesting, look for other logs your server/application produces. The easiest way to find out what log files you have is to run [...]
I wrote about GraphViz before, but so many new Java projects showed up, that I thought it was worth making an update.
Grand: Ant config file visualizer that even better than other options I wrote about before.
LightUML: UML generator from Java classes
Linguine Maps: Visualizer library for many types including WSDL, Ant, Hibernate and DTD
JarAnalyzer: Dependency visualization [...]
Yakov Fain writes (from experience) about good and bad aspects of Russian programmers for outsourcing.
I left Russia well before American companies thought of trusting russian (or indian) programmers. But I remember the software and ingenious hacks written back then by my friends to work with limited computing resources available. I participated in programming competitions and [...]
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I used to rave to everybody about how good ProcessExplorer from Sysinternals was for technical troubleshooting. Oops, I guess I was too loud.
The new license terms state:
A commercial license is required to use the software in any way not covered above, including for example:
Use of the software for technical support on customer computers
This license does [...]
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Russ Olsen (via Michael Baum) writes about tools to use in production, when ones does not have access to tools. Specifically, when one does not have access to tools like Eclipse IDE.
He mentions a good list of tools, though he has a bit too much praise about Strace. To quote:
Ever wonder why your program can’t [...]