I think its safe to assume that most Java developers feel some in trepidation as Oracle take over the stewardship of Java.… [read]

Today Apple announced new photos of iPad. One screenshot is very interesting as it contains mysterious icon on the home screen.… [read]

In this first blog entry of the Java OutOfMemoryError series I start to explain the fundamentals and architecture of the Java Memory Model. [read]

In the next few blog posts, I’m going to present my experience building a simple (but non-trivial) web application using GWT and Google App Engine,… [read]

JBoss, WebSphere, and Weblogic all have their place, but sometimes what you need is a container that starts up quickly, and has a small footprint.… [read]

I think its safe to assume that most Java developers feel some in trepidation as Oracle take over the stewardship of Java.… [read]

I am tired of maintaining blog software on my own, so I’ve created a new blog here. This site will stick around indefinitely, but I won’t be posting here,… [read]

In the previous article, I set up a cluster of 2 Tomcat instances in order to achieve load-balacing. It also offered failover capability. However, when using this feature,… [read]

Members of AAPL Sanity Board at Investor Village resource decided to study the iPad order numbers. By 11:05am EST they received fifteen confirmations about 74,… [read]

The latest released version of scriptaculos (1.8.3) has a really old memory leak. In short, Autocompleter creates a lot of event handlers and never removes them.… [read]

Microsoft just released the second major version of ASP.NET MVC.�� An alternative to HTML abstraction development in ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.… [read]

February was pretty busy to me. First I decided to take new opportunity and got new, exciting gig. I’ll be doing what I have doing so far: software architecture and integration,… [read]

It has been my experience that most Java developers nowadays use an IDE (or IDEs) for their daily work. Knowing the capabilities of these IDEs may make you more productive. However,… [read]

iSMEStorage is the first application for iPhone with cloud storage virtualization service that allows users to manage more than 10 different storage clouds from their device in 1 Cloud file.… [read]

In case you missed it in the newsletter, we will be co-presenting a webinar with Red Hat next week to kick off the availability of the GateIn 3.0 portal project.  Our own Tug Grall,… [read]

Microsoft just released the second major version of ASP.NET MVC.  An alternative to HTML abstraction development in ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.… [read]

BIRT MobileThe BIRT Mobile Viewer is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch (Download from iTunes). This viewer empowers users to take the power of BIRT content with them wherever they go.… [read]

OpenSSH can be used to open multiple tunnels to remote services via SSH. Local ports can be opened up and the information communicated with these ports can be relayed to a remote machine.… [read]

Looking already at SOA and ITIL, I started reading up on other project lifecycle standards popular in the United Kingdom.… [read]

Looking already at SOA and ITIL, I started reading up on other project lifecycle standards popular in the United Kingdom.… [read]

Part II: 3 (More) Lessons from Building Software Development Tools for Google MarketPlace ( Part I ) In the previous article, I described how we came up with the idea for... [read]

Just a short one to all my Eclipse compatriots out there. It looks like EclipseCon is a no go for me this year. Boo hoo.… [read]

In reflecting on Architecture, I realized that there are some profound differences between "real" architecture and software architecture. One of the biggest differences is design.… [read]

So, here is my my first blog post for Urgent Evoke, a new Social Innovation 'game'. The Innovation In Africa Tips post had a number of good points,… [read]

This book is filled with some great advice for those who want to start their own business, have their own business, or are just interested in the subject.… [read]

In my previous Calling Servlets from a JSF Action inside JSR168 Portlet Environment post. I mentioned how to pass UTF-8 request parameters from your JSR 168 portlet to your servlet.… [read]

After finishing a full week of value stream mapping session I have received a couple of key insights...… [read]

The 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).… [read]

In Spring, the inheritance is supported in bean configuration and it is quite useful for a bean sharing some common value or configurations.… [read]

Ryan wrote a really great comment over at rc3.org in response to an interview Scott did talking about how we work over at GitHub. Since I can’t seem to link to the comment directly,… [read]

Being geek as I am, whenever I was watching/reading something related to casinos and gambling in general, there were always thoughts like: "Hmm, what languages/platforms they use?",… [read]

There has been a vocal minority calling out the GitHub team on our extracurricular activities recently,… [read]

This post is mostly for me as online reference of cool music sounds I stumbled upon in effort not to forget them all. As operating systems get reinstalled, hard drivers get wiped, new PCs get bought,… [read]

I have started to re-organized and update my Android Development Programming Knols. The first one that is updated with new additional resources is, Android Resources for Application Development.… [read]

Show NotesAlex Tkachman on LinkedIn Alex Tkachman on Twitter Bindows web framework Groovy++ Links Download Page and Mailing List A sneak peak into Groovy++ (with FAQ) Groovy.… [read]

Reading the latest in Git fanboy criticism has felt like a time warp back to when I started learning about Rails.… [read]

While I was at CNET, traffic was growing steadily on our sites, but we had a rude awakening one particular day.… [read]

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a Lean process tool that can help teams to get an understanding of where some of their biggest problems are. When done correctly,… [read]

I was listening to the GitHub interview on the Web 2.0 Show that I missed when I heard Chris mention something that deserves repeating. When you show up to project page on SourceForge,… [read]

When we tell people why they should use Git over Subversion, the go-to line is, “Git does Subversion better than Subversion, but it does a lot more than that.… [read]

Hot on the heels of the FamSpam launch only a few short months ago, Chris Wanstrath, Tom Preston-Werner, and I launched GitHub.… [read]

Programmers are arguably some of the smartest people in the world. We solve complex problems all day, every day, and we’re always hungry for more.… [read]

Some techniques for implementation of expression optimization for SQL-like dialect.Expression should be transformed into conjunctive normal form (form in which there are no negations,… [read]

Here is small Java utility for performance measurement. It's one of those small easy things that occur frequently, but are not provided by Java SE.… [read]

Here is step by step guide how to install Qpid AMQP broker, configure queue replication and finally test that replication actually works.… [read]

I always had great appreciation for quotes: being such a small and yet powerful creations they highly resemble what every software engineer tries to achieve when writing code.… [read]

Here is the list of some of most useful Eclipse shortcuts, at least to me.… [read]

Das ist mein erster Versuch seit langem Zeit etwas auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Mal sehen wie das ausgeht =). Weil ich kann ziemlich gut lesen und hören, mit Schreiben geht es nicht so toll,… [read]

Here are some thoughts about what are characteristics of a good team leader. List is non-exhaustive. It does not apply to each and every type of organization, hence I will divide companies,… [read]

Sometimes it’s to my chagrin to admit to my Ruby on Rails colleagues that I actually bothered to get my computer science degree.… [read]

There’s something about this picture that encapsulates everything I love about San Francisco. The eclectic mix of people, trading my car for public transportation (drop-top trolley!),… [read]

...is for companies that know neither how the internet works nor how to build an interesting product.… [read]

Here is my list of top 10 WoW movies of all time from PvP and entertainment perspective.… [read]

Recently I stumbled upon one of my past free time Java projects I used to work on approx. 2 years ago. Idea was to make it open source,… [read]

Everybody has name for it. Germans are calling it Weiterbildung, fellow English speakers call it life-long learning.… [read]

I know most of my audience is compromised of web developers so please pay attention: Unless you’re building a financial application,… [read]

Ok, maybe we launched a couple of weeks ago, but we decided to wait until after the holidays to make the official announcement.… [read]

If you need to hone your Ruby chops prior to heading to Berlin for RailsConf Europe check out the Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin, TX September 7-8.… [read]

The Err Free team will be accepting beers at RailsConf for anyone interested, come find us. Chris will be talking about his acts_as_cached plugin on Saturday.… [read]

Recently I had casual discussion with one of my friends where he shared his thoughts about rising and teaching his 2 year old son. I told him my views, and here it is for the rest of the world,… [read]

Here are some thoughts on one of the protocols used for group membership and message ordering, called Totem.… [read]

As 2009 slowly comes to an end, we can all agree that is was one heck of a year. We almost witnessed collapse of the entire financial industry, causing worldwide recession, increased unemployment,… [read]

Recently while I was reading and thinking about generation and execution of parallel queries,… [read]

In modern markets the most important department in any company, at least in those wishing to remain successful and competitive, is sales department.… [read]

Some thoughts on parallel I/O.The goal it to design system that can process data in fast and most efficient manner. System should be able to detect when certain operation can be parallelized,… [read]

Lately I had some thoughts on event correlation principles, and decided to place them in written form as personal reference.… [read]

This is mostly for me as online backup and reference.… [read]