Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

A Google of One

It’s just another phase in the continued commoditization of infrastructure. It started a decade or two ago with the OS and has been followed in quick succession by the web and J2EE stacks.
While not free, cloud computing offerings by the likes of Amazon.com have definitely opened the realm of possibility to the [...]

Nearly 14 years after the once mighty browser made its first desktop appearance as Mosaic Netscape 0.9, its disappearance comes as little surprise. Although Netscape accounted for more than 80 per cent of the browser market in 1995, the arrival of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the same year brought stiff competition and surpassed Netscape within [...]

Jeremy Zadowny has mention of a very large scale Hadoop deployment over at Yahoo! Search.
It makes sense given their previous commitments and investments to the project but it’s also cool in a way to start seeing some significant migrations to the framework.

Over on the Yahoo! Hadoop blog, you can read about how the webmap team [...]

As developers, we’re all responsible for writing code in one way or another. We write it ourselves or help others write it better. Either way, code gets written and we all move on.
The rest of this short post will be focused on code reviews and what (I think) makes them efficient and beneficial.
Code Reviews (CRs)

Code [...]

I admitedly don’t have a lot of experience with the various AOP frameworks that have gained popularity over the past few years.
I happened to be looking at Javassist a couple weeks back and noticed that they were in the process of developing a lightweight AOP framework on top of it called GluonJ. It’s still in [...]

Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers
I’ve always found it interesting to read others thoughts on what makes us effective. If you haven’t read it already, I’d recommend it.
Ben’s List

Humility
Love of Learning
Detail-orientedness
Adaptability
Passion

Personally, I think it’s a pretty good list. High level and applicable to most situations in life, not just programming.
If I could add a [...]

JVM Lies : The OutOfMemory Myth
It’s also been covered (with even more comments) over on TSS.
It’s certainly beneficial for a developer to have a basic understanding of Java’s approach to memory management. This post (and comments) does provide a simple overview and discusses some of the causes and gotchas for those ever annoying OutOfMemory exceptions.
If [...]