http://dholland.wordpress.com Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:49:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://dholland.wordpress.com http://dholland.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/london-bile/ http://dholland.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/london-bile/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:47:10 +0000 Deglan http://dholland.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/london-bile/ ]]> 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.

]]> http://dholland.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/london-bile/feed/ 2 dholland http://dholland.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/tony-printezis-garbage-collection-friendly-programming/ http://dholland.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/tony-printezis-garbage-collection-friendly-programming/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:26:54 +0000 Deglan http://dholland.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/tony-printezis-garbage-collection-friendly-programming/ ]]> 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:

• Destructors, Finalizers and Synchronization
• Finalization, threads and the Java technology memory model
• How to Handle Java Finalization’s Memory-Retention Issues
• Memory Management in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine

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