A random walk through Financial IT

code Change Risk Analyzer and Predictor October 2, 2007

Posted by Deglan in Java, Metrics.
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A client pointed me at this tool that purports to help defend against the risks that are inherent in working with overly complex and untested code. Not yet had a chance to kick the tyres on this; but, if nothing else, the tool name opens up a whole world of descriptive possibilities for working with and understanding this kind of code base.

London Bile September 28, 2007

Posted by Deglan in Java.
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Hani Suleiman author of the Bileblog is presenting a session on Enterprise Java Testing as part of the Skills Matter “In-the-Brain of” series. The session is on 13th November, registration is free and can be found here.

Tony Printezis: Garbage Collection – Friendly Programming September 25, 2007

Posted by Deglan in Java.
Tags: Garbage Collection, Java
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Last week I had the good fortune to attend a re-run of the popular Java One session by Tony Printezis on Garbage Collection Friendly Programming. Tony is a Staff Engineer in the GC Group at Sun and a great speaker too; if you get the opportunity to attend one of his talks I’d strongly recommend that you go along. The key take away messages: keep it simple – use clear simple code rather than obscure code that tries to second guess the GC, user shorter-lived immutable objects rather than longer lived mutable objects, get to know the GC and when you are holding references. Whilst it’s not the same as having Tony share real life experiences, I thought that I’d share a few of the key papers referenced in the talk:

Make It Fly Seminar Series June 27, 2007

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Free seminar series on optimising applications for the Sun and Java platforms. The next event (July 12^th) covers JavaFX and Java Real System. Agenda here.

710, 21651 June 27, 2007

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More to come on this…

New year, new blog (almost) January 16, 2007

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Some while ago I moved my blog to wordpress and now have a fine collection of unpublished/unfinished blog entries… The last few days have seen me sitting next to Matt on a TANGOSOL Coherence training course; the constant muttering of “blog it, blog it” under his breath have persuaded me to actually publish some of this material. It will be interesting to see how long this particular new years resolution will last.