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Java and JIT compilers
I appreciate reading about all the work going on with Shark and Java... my favorite language at the moment being Ruby I'm of course interested in the progress of JRuby as well. What I don't really understand about people who spend so much time on JITs is why no one appears to have bothered to try saving the compiled methods to disk so the next ( Read more... ) -
Ubuntu 8.10
For a long while I worked within a large corporation with an essentially mandated Windows desktop. I learned to cope, by making use of cygwin, rxvt, ssh, etc. I imagine I'd have been a great deal less productive if I'd been forced to live within a DOS-like CMD shell all those years ( Read more... ) -
Stagflation?
So, I've been increasingly worried that the attempts to prevent recession by reducing the prime lending rate were also counter to the need to reduce inflation. Back in June, consumer prices for the year were up 12% or so here in the US. I should cite my source, but that was months ago now. So a coworker of mine sent me this link to a piece with ( Read more... ) -
The Death of Newspapers
We are about a decade into the fall of newspapers as a medium for communicating information. That's right, the current woes of the newspaper industry are the result of a vast disruptive technology, the Internet, and while publishers have seen this one coming for more than a decade they have largely been ineffective at transforming their business ( Read more... ) -
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Wow, thank goodness for Google. Today it helped me pretty quickly find that the problem I've been seeing with my ping times in tracert on Windows (4294967235 ms) is due to a small issue in the program where it can report this number when the ping time is less than 1ms and due to a counter issue for the AMD dual core system I now have. The fix is ( Read more... ) -
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Ha, this reading about strlen in gcc and x86 asm was interesting. Wonder if one needs to file a bug report on it or just blog about it? :) -
RailsConf 2008 in Portland
I made it to Portland after a brief layover in Dallas. On the first flight there was one empty seat between myself and Steven, while the plane was otherwise packed due to the previous flight to Dallas having been cancelled. The second flight was of course packed and not terribly comfortable. Now I'm pretty tired because I'm still on east coast ( Read more... ) -
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I'll be visiting Portland, OR for the first time ever for RailsConf 2008 at the end of May. Sadly, my contacts in that area have all moved to other parts of the country. Anyone with suggestions for someone stuck near the convention center? -
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"Brian Jones, an Office program manager at Microsoft and the sole Microsoft employee on the Ecma Technical Committee, revealed the total number of comments that had been received in a blog posting this week.The joy of having extremely common names means that I get to read about my other selves quite often while living in relative Internet obscurity ( Read more... )