I have to say I’m pretty annoyed with Ubuntu Linux at the moment. I’ve been wrestling with it all afternoon and evening to try and get it installed and working on an Lenovo / IBM T60 Thinkpad, and thus far it’s been a huge waste of time. After much googling throughout the day [...]

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 [...]

This past Friday marked the end of the second week at my new job which has brought many changes for me. I left a good sized development team at large company for the uncertainty for a VC funded start-up without revenue, I’m miles from a ColdFusion server and instead am working on a Java [...]

Well, now that I’ve seen the company I will be working at soon has recently been dugg and is also presenting at DEMO 07 within the next couple of days, it seems like a good time to announce that I’m spending my last days as an Acxiom employee and joining a startup called Me.dium.
I feel [...]

Of the many companies which are listed as presenters, I couldn’t help but notice that Adobe is presenting something at this year’s DEMO conference. This is just pure speculation on my part, but of all of the things which seem to be known elements at Adobe at this point, it seems to me that [...]

I’d came across System 76 before and have had it in my del.icio.us bookmarks for awhile, but I didn’t realize it was here in Denver. Very cool! I’d probably drop by there sometime if they have any sort of store front, but I’d guess it’s just a shipping/building type facility.
For the uninitiated, [...]

While I did once interview with Google and didn’t make it very far, my friend Rod actually got invited to the Googleplex to interview but ultimately was not offered a job. However, that wasn’t the end of the saga. In fact I just re-read his original post about his visit there and noticed [...]

Greg Stein announced on the Google Code Updates Blog that they’ve added downloads and a simple wiki. Examples of the new download functionality, and a wiki are also provided.
This makes me happy; it’s just in time for my “I’m not working the rest of the year” vacation so I can finally write up some [...]

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 must say I work with a really amazing team at work, and there is rarely a day we don’t get into complex technical discussions about anything from “what algorithm is the best to do x” to getting into deep geeky details about how certain platforms work such as the Hotspot compiler in Java. [...]