I tried it once in my hands and I was immediately addicted. Strongly considering going to store to get one. some more info
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Well, if you own any Nokia phone, you’ve get accustomed that some features simply WORK. But when you make mistake of going into hype land of Android or Apple then you can simply loose some features which simply exists and work. Lets pay attention into one function, which has worked always in my Nokia phones:…
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Decided to experiment a bit, so no I’m waiting post package to arrive for this cool sounding device. Interesting points: – Only 10 mm thick (yes, 8 GB version) – Only 300 grams – 7″ should be practically pocketable – Unlike most of those tablets out there, these Archos devices have possibility to connect to…
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Interesting: High Performance And Smarter Logging References: Log4J Logback – successor of Log4J
Read moreMTBF it’s not your friend
MTBF hit my OS system disc yesterday. Luckily only few sectors were broken, but harddrive is definitely kaput. Thus reinstalling OS in another disc. Luckily all configs from old system were still available.
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Netty Need to investigate this a bit further, based into FAQ, it may have some support for SSL with server socket. Btw, one really irritating fact of standard SSLServerSocket implementation of java is that API launches new handler thread everytime when new SSL socket is created. It’s pretty clear that when having server with thousands…
Read moreSpeculate, but don’t guess, measure to see
How synchronized keyword behaves in methods. I’ve heard speculation that doFoo1() would result into more compact byte code, but I don’t buy that. Assumption: Byte code in both cases, is same. So we have this sample, [code lang=”java”] class SyncMe { synchronized void doFoo1() { int x = 0; } void doFoo2() { synchronized (this)…
Read moreEeny, weeny, nitpicking, peeny
Todays lesson is: What javac does with following methods, when compiled. Assumptions: Iterating over ArrayList vs. List generates optimized code, not creating Iterator (i.e. would optimize memory usage using RandomAccessList API), but using int index Itearating over Object[] is faster than List/ArrayList foreach loop for Object[] is as tight code as manual iteration [code lang=”java”]…
Read moreTime to prepare for Java 7
It’s time to prepare for compatibility with Java 7. Release date is supposed to be around 28.7.2011, so there is’ still roughly 2 months to prepare for compatibility.
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Howly cow, or whatever. It’s hard to impress to impress me, but this framework raised my interest. Vaadin I will be pushing to use this framework, since it has clear advantages over some plain GWT approaches. Need to build some more prototypes for testing framework.
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