NFJS wrapup
Posted by skelter Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:46:00 GMT
wrap up some straggler blog notes about nfsf.
git: Version control very popular among the presentorgencia? (presentatti?) seemed uncomfortably unstructured, but will have to look into it.
Brian Geotz’s are always great, and the Java Memory Model talk was worth the time. This will become more important as we look at things like terracotta.
Architecture and Scaling by Ken Sipe inspired me to set up the scaling lab at work and get some real numbers out of our application.
Leading Agile Projects by David Hussman. I think what I need next in my career is some bone-head manager training. My people leading and direction skills are not geared to what I am having to deal with at work right now.
Ted Neward was using the Komodo editor in a pinch during his magic show act.
In the roundtable/grilling/QA, one of the presenters mentioned Bill Gates going on a reading weekend. I thought this was a full week. I was right, and it even has a name:Think Week.
I need to google a bunch of things, including
- VisualVM for a much more humane and luxurious interface to your vm.
- BTrace dynamic trace tool for Java
- the Hawthorne effect
- Ceremony vs. Essence blog posts by Stu Hollaway
- youtube Mythbusters: CPU/GPU,
- Kingdom of Nouns
- which lead to Kay’s remark
- and the Nice language
- InfoQ podcsts
I’ll update this post with links as I go.
Did you know you can just randomly put curly braces in a Java class, outside of a method. Uhh. Kind of a party trick. I’m not sure if it’s gross or not.