Not very fancy, but it happened regardless: Wedding
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Not very fancy, but it happened:
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Some interesting utilities Automation for the people: Improving code with Eclipse plugins FindBugs – Find Bugs in Java Programs
Read moreSparrow in the school
And when new year arrived, arrived also school, and sparrow is now in school studying Finnish. She has promised to be fluent with language in one year, and have survival skills by next summer. ”Jo Karjalan kunnailla lehtii puu, jo Karjalan koivikot tuuhettuu, käki kukkuu siellä, ja kevät on, vie sinne mun kaihoni pohjaton.”
Read moreJust few days until *IT* happens
*IT* will happen really soon. Just few days ahead from current time. Ok, nothing really fancy is going to happen, but regardless of that big day is ahead.
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For Java … Java Tuning White Paper Java Performance Tuning Highlight for today: -XX:+UseBiasedLocking – An object is ”biased” toward the thread which first acquires its monitor via a monitorenter bytecode or synchronized method invocation; subsequent monitor-related operations performed by that thread are relatively much faster on multiprocessor machines. Some applications with significant amounts of…
Read moreGetting over grids…
For a chance, something different like Table Layout can be tried to spice up UI development. Just adding some extra sugar wrapper layer over it, and easy UI layout definition is served. Ok, practise is always naturally different… For example, TableLayout does not answer question of aligning layout between widgets, like two composite widgets in…
Read moreNothing happening?
Nothing really, but still much. Big secret is that Linda is finally arriving to Finland. If nothing fails, she will be here in week. That’s cool, I think so.
Read moreNew Friend?
Is this new friend for performance aware java programmer? Atomic values Atomic Values Concurrency Utilities More theory (from IBM): More flexible, scalable locking in JDK 5.0 Going Atomic Introduction to nonblocking algorithms Basically this whole thing is about avoiding syncronization and using volatile fields for doing it. Naturally assisted with our old-friend, ”Mr. Unsafe”. Cool,…
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This looks quite interesting, much more interesting than some darn ugly SWT. Qt Jambi Technology Preview – Trolltech
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