I've recently been battling an issue with my Media Temple (ve), and a rather archaic kernel. I share it here in the hopes you won't get bitten too.
Categories: journal | Tags: hosting media temple LTS EOL | Permalink
Doug Lea has proposed to promote memory fencing mechanics into implementation APIs in Java. I cover what this means.
Categories: journal | Tags: java jeps jep-171 concurrent | Permalink
I show how with some Jekyll plugin work you can create full fledged category and tag homepages for your site in Jekyll
Accessing JMX interfaces has been phenomenally difficult over the years due to some limitations. With recent Java 7 builds, that is a thing of the past.
Categories: journal | Tags: java jmx rmi firewall | Permalink
Another batch of concurrency utilities is in the pipeline for Java as JEP-155. This is part one of a short summary of what is planned.
Categories: journal | Tags: jeps jep-155 concurrent java | Permalink
A number of good things happened this week for desktop Linux folks - I summarize a few.
Categories: journal | Tags: linux desktop steam elementaryos | Permalink
A new enhancement proposal is in for Java that describes creating value objects, allowing the JVM to treat complex objects as primitives.
Categories: journal | Tags: jeps jep-169 primitives java | Permalink
Valve has released Steam for Linux to 1000 testers, and Nvidia is releasing drivers that suck a little less.
Categories: journal | Tags: linux ubuntu gaming valve steam | Permalink
As yet another sign of the coming Git-pocalypse, Atlassian is dropping support for hosted Subversion from Atlassian OnDemand.
Categories: journal | Tags: atlassian ondemand fisheye bamboo svn git | Permalink
I previously showed how you could build an article series list with Jekyll using Liquid. This time I use a custom Liquid tag instead of a Liquid script-let.