http://marklai.com marklai.com Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:36:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A presentation from guest speaker Jeromy Carriere in Architecture class. .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }Measuring Architecture on Prezi http://marklai.com/2010/08/measuring-architecture/ The intermittent system freeze on this less-than-a-year-old laptop was really getting in the way of my grad school remote meetings.  Sometimes it'd work for most of the day and would freeze in the middle of a skype meeting.  If I reboot just before the meeting, it senses that and freezes ... http://marklai.com/2009/09/hp-dv4-laptop-unfreeze/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315000/how-to-study-design-patterns suggestions, books, "practice" http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx data & object factory definitions, diagrams, code sample in C# http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/04/06/designpatterns.html Form Your Own Design Pattern Study Group (article based on and written by coauthors of Head First Design Patterns ) To start a study group, you need the following ingredients: a moderator a small group of interested individuals a meeting place and time a schedule of reading ... http://marklai.com/2009/01/notes-on-design-patterns-group-study/ Pre-order your copy of Effective Java (2nd Edition). Joshua Bloch presented these items at JavaOne 2008 TS-6623, More Effective Java: Generics (Item 28) Enum types (Items 31–34, 77) Lazy initialization (Item 71) http://marklai.com/2008/05/effective-java-second-edition/ What's New in Ajax - Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer New frameworks, plug-ins, UI toolkits. Browser can become a bottleneck (single thread only) but is virtually multi-threaded using Google Gears, message communication with browser. Cloud computing services: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Aptana Cloud - takes care of hosting infrastructure freeing ... http://marklai.com/2008/05/javaone-day-five/ Top 10 Patterns for Scaling Out Java Technology Based Applications - Cameron Purdy #10 Understand the problem #9 Define the requirements #8 Architecture trumps technology #7 Understand the basics #6 Visualize the network #5 Visualize the design #4a Plan for overload #4b Partition for scalability #3a Plan for failure #3b ... http://marklai.com/2008/05/javaone-day-four/ The Script Bowl: A Rapid Fire Comparison of Scripting Languages - Guillaume Laforge, Charles Nutter; Jorge Ortiz, Raghavan Srinivas, Frank Wierzbicki Contenders: Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Scala Rounds: Rich Client Application Web application Open (free format) Impressive how little code is needed in each of these. Hands-on Struts 2 - Ian Roughley Similar on the outside with Struts ... http://marklai.com/2008/05/javaone-day-three/ I realized my day numbers may be off since I'm counting the Java University as day one. Consider this a 1 based indexing. The conference kicked off with Sun's general session "Java + You". Some intro and demo on devices, including Amazon's Kindle; impressive JavaFX applications that crashes, but ... http://marklai.com/2008/05/javaone-day-two/ Monday is the Java University, or the free Community One which is a mix of vendor presentations, I believe. (Update: Saw the aftermath. Looks like it's mostly white board booths, with some partying.) Morning course: Designing and Implementing Secure Java Technology Web Services Presented by John Ranta 6 days course ... http://marklai.com/2008/05/javaone-day-one/ Off to JavaOne! It'll be a fun & busy week. http://marklai.com/2008/05/2008-javaone-conference/