Archive for October, 2006

The following may not be of interest to you unless you were an avid computer gamer in the early 1990’s.
For those that don’t know CGW is short for Computer Gaming World, a popular gaming mag from an era where games meant something to the consumer aka. me.
Ok ok, don’t get me wrong, games still mean [...]

Last week the IT guy at work (whom I’ve helped out previously and have a good relationship with) asked me if I’d be interested in being a guinea pig for some new laptops.
Being the technology-inclined person that I am, I agreed. Don’t get me wrong, my previous laptop wasn’t too bad, Dell d610 w/ [...]

The last week or so I’ve spent doing some performance optimizations on our application in preparation for a data-intensive demo.
Everything was going well, caught some of the low hanging fruit (running things on the EDT, not batching requests, retrieving too much data, etc) but ran into a brick wall when trying to do a contains [...]




  • Win7, nice to meet you. I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been ...

  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...






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