Friday June 29, 2007 Open-Sourcing of Solaris Cluster
Great to see Solaris Cluster starting down the open-source road. [Read More]( Jun 29 2007, 01:02:39 PM CEST ) Permalink
Friday June 22, 2007 Java and too many jars
One of the projects I'm helping architect is a pretty huge undertaking. It's got lots of separate functional blocks being deployed into classloaders in each Java SE JVM, and since they're being developed by lots of different teams, we're seeing the same kind of common infrastructure jars (hibernate, apache commons logging, jwsdp, etc.etc.) being loaded multiple times into some of the VMs. [Read More]( Jun 22 2007, 03:37:26 PM CEST ) Permalink
Blogging and brown-bags
One of the activities I get up to at Sun's Grenoble Engineering Center is to organize weekly "brown-bag" discussions to talk about something with a subject-expert. This week's brown-bag was on blogging. [Read More]( Jun 22 2007, 01:58:34 PM CEST ) Permalink
Monday June 04, 2007 Fun fun fun
On a slightly off-topic note, I had fun this weekend jumping off a bridge...
This was my 39th birthday present from my wife and 3 kids. Just goes to show you shouldn't make throw-away comments about this kind of thing as you drive past the bridge! I've been told you're meant to have a list of things you want to do by the time you're 40, well, I don't but this might have been on it if I had one! Quite a different sensation from parachuting or paragliding, and the weightlessness at the top of the bounce back up is very different from the weightlessness of scuba diving - it's really quite exhilarating!
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