Fillp Hanik recently posted a blog entry about a load test comparison he did using Glassfish, Jetty, and Tomcat 6 using the new NIO (non-blocking io) connectors in which Tomcat 6 was able to handle 16,000 connections. As always load tests should always be taken with a grain of salt, but it certainly did [...]

Java 6 Standard Edition has been released and can be downloaded here. The long winded version of what’s new can be read here, while the summary of new features and changes can be found here.
Personally I don’t know if I’ll be working on anything in 1.6 anytime soon as 1.5 is still the current [...]

I just moved away from running mod_php5 under Apache 2 to running PHP5 under FastCGI for a number of reasons, including that I will be deploying some Python apps on this same server before terribly long and didn’t want the overhead of mod_php5 and mod_python on each request.
This is my first FastCGI install [...]

I’ve been trying to find a project to work on to contribute to the community for quite some time, and finally came across something missing that would be very valuable to anyone running a ColdFusion based blog. My blog has been using WordPress for at least a couple of years, and I’ve never really [...]

On Sunday, March 6th of 2005 I was messing around on my workstation retagging some Mp3’s so I could add them into my iPod playlists when I got a GMail notification of a new comment on my blog. I went to check it out and it was fairly basic comment “prepare to be slashdotted. [...]