I just read a post on Debashish Chakrabarty's blog titled "Primer: Difference between javac and JIT". It contains a very good explanation of what Just In Time (JIT) compilation is and how it relates to HotSpot JVMs. HotSpot JVMs identify sections of code that are worth taking the time to compile from bytecode to machine code. These sections of code are referred to as hotspots.Read more

I hope you are ready for the next type of in-your-face Internet advertising. I've been noticing a new trend among websites. For websites with just about any kind of content, they have begun to link words in the content to products as a form of advertising.Read more

I've noticed many web authors puting their Cascading Style Sheets straight into the header of a page. Folks, that's bad! There are many benefits to moving style data out of the body of your html and into CSS, and one of them gets lost when the CSS is placed in the header.Read more

July 4, 2003 I ran my first 10k race as part of Fair St. Louis. 57:03 - not exactly a time that's going to amaze anyone. But I completed my goal, which was to run it end to end without walking a step. Just 2 years and 2 days after quitting smoking, I've done something I never thought I would be able to do and I'm very happy about that.Read more

I don't want to get in the habit of bragging on my blog. But today I'm especially proud of a few things. Today is exactly 2 years since I quit smoking, after 8 years of a pack-a-day habit. I still miss smoking. But life is so much better when you are happy with yourself.

My system is crashing on me fairly regularly. It's been extremely stable that last two years, but the past week and half it's been horrible. It's really driving me nuts. People trying to access this website often get "Host not found" errors, usually because I've got a blue screen of death. If it weren't for two things, I would switch to Linux.

1) My PVS. I run SnapStream, and there is no way I'm giving it up. I just love it.Read more

Blog surfing, I ran across this entry on Roman Porotnikov's blog. It tells about the Reactor Group site where you can submit any jpg (other image formats don't seem to work) and get a Matrix type representation of it in HTML. Well of course, I had to try it out.

I submitted this:

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There is an excellent LookAndFeel by Stefan Krause called XPLookAndFeel. It is limited to running on WindowsXP because of various licensing issues.Read more

I was just reading an excellent entry on Andrew C. Oliver's blog titled "Ballmer debunked" where Andrew analyzes an interview with Microsoft's Steve Ballmer. Andrew says something I just love in reference to Balmer's claims of Microsoft's innovation: "I mean comon(sic) C# smells like coffee". That's just great.Read more

Today I was looking around java.net, the new Java community site created by Sun. According to a post by Karsten Lentzch on Java Desktop:

JGoodies is excited to announce the open sourcing of two of its projects: Looks and Forms. Read more on the JGoodies project page on java.netRead more