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Comment on Contact by Buzz Loftus

Buzz Loftus — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:23:29 +0000

I stumbled into your site looking for a solution to errors I’m getting in Eclipse in regard to Java generics. It appears the problem you had with generics/Eclipse is different than the one I’m having. But no problem, because I listened to a couple of your tunes and that made it worth the trip. Very nice stuff. -Buzz

Comment on Overloading the Eclipse Job Management System by John

John — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:20:44 +0000

Right. I think the biggest learning experience from that is that you can’t second guess the Eclipse Java contracts – you have to implement them exactly as specified. And even then you end up making faulty assumptions about the order things are called in. It’s a great platform, but you pay for it in complexity.

Comment on Overloading the Eclipse Job Management System by Landon

Landon — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:13:50 +0000

Yeah I remember the headaches with eclipse plugin’s myself when we started out on it. It was one of things that is very powerful if you just knew how to use it properly, because there was just so little documentation about it at the time. Long live the web and code snippets or else we would never have had the first version :)

Comment on Mysterious CPU Performance Loss Solved by John

John — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:04:43 +0000

No problem; I tore my hair out because it was one of those things that happens gradually (as the dust builds up.) Coupled with the fact that it’s not apparent (bus speeds don’t change), it’s hard to find. Tip: that thermal paste gets everywhere!

Comment on Mysterious CPU Performance Loss Solved by Terry Douglas

Terry Douglas — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:40:20 +0000

Wow, I might have to do the same thing, my PC is chugging these days (roughly same age, same spec).

Cheers for the tip.

Comment on Initial Revision by John

John — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:56:58 +0000

Hi Dave! Yeah great to hear from you – I’ll add your site to the blogroll! Not so much new stuff lately but occasionally some bits and bobs do come along!
-J

Comment on Initial Revision by Dave Schmid

Dave Schmid — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:36:32 +0000

John – glad to see you’re still working new things into your Web site. I still pop over every once in a while to see what new music bites are available… Keep up the great work! (We talked a bit back in 2004 – http://www.musicshoppe.com)

Comment on The Hidden Danger of Synchronization by John

John — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:56:44 +0000

Exactly, and they can be very useful if you’re doing Object.Wait()/.Notify() semaphores (which bring their own special class of problems). Debugging them ranges from impossible (if they’re suspected) to hard (if you have a stack trace of one actually happening). At least in the newer JVMs the deadlock detector will actually point out the participants in a deadlock right there in the trace.

Comment on Initial Revision by Landon

Landon — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:14:09 +0000

p.s. Cheers for the idea of the share/save button. I liked it better than what I had so I have changed it over on my site ;)

Comment on The Hidden Danger of Synchronization by Landon

Landon — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:09:58 +0000

Very good and very true. I know about this stuff but its just amazing how often you forget it when coding and then have the dreaded task of debugging the application to see what’s going wrong. Think about it early and it will save headaches later.

Synchronization is one of those things that when it works is absolutely amazing but, you have a greater chance of something going tits up when you are not experienced. Long live Erlang :)