Adam Bien covers how to reduce the size of JAR packages in Java 5 & 6 here. An example he shows starts at 44 MB and gets reduced down to 6 MB– impressive!

I’m in the process of transitioning this blog from content consisting of items about my personal life and interests to instead focus on software development. That said, I’ve started removing all links to external sites of friends (you’re now linked from my new personal blog) and also reorganizing categories. A few of my [...]

Today is pretty much the wrong weather for my Datsun 280Z here in Colorado, but it made Autoblog’s Readers Ride of the Day! Judging by the comments, there are plenty of people who also still love the old Z’s too.
I haven’t much touched the car since I bought it other than typical old [...]

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 [...]

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 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. [...]

I came across this yesterday and forgot to post it, but I don’t remember where I saw it unfortunately. Anyhow, the last word on how to pronounce Linux has finally surfaced. I’m so glad to hear it’s the way I’ve been pronouncing it since starting to play with it in the mid 90’s, [...]

I was curious to see if I could still find the old listings of ColdFusion Certified Developers from the original 4.5-5.0 test period. After looking around the dark, dust covered areas of the Adobe site and thumbing through some URL's one ID at a time, I finally found the page where they are grouped [...]

While I keep poking around Django, I have yet to do much other than from simple stuff with it. That said, it's definitely starting to gain some ground, particularly in the media space. Locally in Colorado, both the Boulder Daily Camera and the Steamboat Pilot have converted their sites to using Django, [...]

If you're reading this message, a DNS change has finally been relayed to your DNS client and you're hitting this site on my new server.
After many minor problems hosting at home (mostly outages for various networking/power reasons) and not having enough bandwidth to survive being digg'ed or Slashdotted, I recently decided to seek a hosting [...]