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Yes that might be an arresting headline but it actually almost happened. This is a short blog piece, for once ;) Here is what Jeremy Allaire said about this in a 2003 interview..."Back in the late fall of 1995, Microsoft contacted us at the direction of Adam Bosworth, who was working on their …
These times are very busy and it is good to see a brisk demand for CF developers but that is not the focus of this blog piece, however it is always good to spread good news. I have written many times about clustering, most of those pieces have related to hardware clustering which typically …
Yesterday I decided to install a beta copy of ColdFusion 10, code named "Zeus" on a spare 64-bit CentOS system I have in my lab. Before doing that I read the complete release notes/documentation on what is new or enhanced in CF10 over previous versions, from beginning to end. I am under NDA so …
I have known for some time that on reaching a 32GB sized heap in the 64-bit Hotspot JVM there is a loss of heap storage space. It turns out that is because of the object pointer size which in JVM's up to 32GB are compressed. As soon as we hit anything over 32GB that compression ceases and with …
Microsoft has created a series of guides for migrating Oracle, MySQL, Sybase and our old favorite Access to SQL Server. They can be found here.
There have been two of my clients recently, who outsourced load-testing to third party companies, different ones in actual fact. I would recommend against that for several reasons. First and foremost, the load-testing will typically start from the wrong location; where the user sits, which is …
It seems recently, that there have been an increasing number of new or "ported" languages created to run on the JVM. As I have spent almost 11 years tuning the JVM I am very interested in any expansion in usage of the paradigm. As a side note, recently I have been testing the Garbage First …
I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to present at many software conferences around the world. Similarly, I have had the opportunity to help clients design and roll out applications which we engineer, at the outset to scale; this last aspect is a mind-set which we should all have. …
I found a very good article today relating to 11 trends in software programming to be aware of . Items 1 relates to more things being done on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and that sounds good as it is where my expertise has been for the past 10-11 years. There are two other items in this …
I want to thank everyone for attending the two presentations I gave at cfObjective(ANZ) in Melbourne Australia and I would like to thank Mark, Kai and the whole team for putting on an exceptional event; once again. I gave two presentations, both relating to performance and here are links to …
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