<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from kirk.blog-city.com</title><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 kirk.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:04:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from kirk.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>JavaFX, are we there yet?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/javafx_are_we_there_yet.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/javafx_are_we_there_yet.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=javafx%5Fare%5Fwe%5Fthere%5Fyet</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today, Sun has finally decided to make good on their promise of JavaONE 2007 by making a pre-release of JavaFX available today. With this release, JavaFX finally becomes a little less vapor and a little more ware But the question remains, does JavaFX]]></description><category>java</category><category>javafx</category><category>champion</category><category>air</category><category>adobe</category></item><item><title>Review of Super Crunchers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/review_of_super_crunchers.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/review_of_super_crunchers.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=review%5Fof%5Fsuper%5Fcrunchers</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On a recent trip through Heathrow I ran into Super Crunchers, a book about how business are using regression testing and other statistical methods to change their understanding of how things really work. The book is following in the wake of the very]]></description><category>super</category><category>cruncher</category><category>statistics</category><category>measure</category><category>dont</category><category>guess</category></item><item><title>Mercurial review</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/mercurial_review.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/mercurial_review.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mercurial%5Freview</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just started on a new project with a few people that are pretty much all over the planet. Sometimes we are connected and sometimes we&#39;re not. I was given the task of setting up source code control. The choice was SubVersion or Mercurial. I&#39;d]]></description><category>mercurial</category><category>svn</category><category>subversion</category><category>scc</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>Nothing like a little prior art</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/nothing_like_a_little_prior_art.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/nothing_like_a_little_prior_art.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nothing%5Flike%5Fa%5Flittle%5Fprior%5Fart</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is more of an update about Geert&#39;s recent battle with CI. Looks like the links to prior art are starting to flood in. This should be enough to prevent CI from getting the patent approved in EU. However, I don&#39;t know what it does to elimi]]></description></item><item><title>Is Channel Intelligence a patent troll?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/is_channel_intelligence_a_patent_troll.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/is_channel_intelligence_a_patent_troll.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=is%5Fchannel%5Fintelligence%5Fa%5Fpatent%5Ftroll</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I normally wouldn&#39;t think of cloning an entire blog but Geert Bevin is in trouble and there is a danger that his blog will disappear. Rather than summerize the situation I&#39;ll just let Geert tell it. Please comment on his blog  and not on mine]]></description></item><item><title>I&apos;m live at SDN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/im_live_at_sdn.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/im_live_at_sdn.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=im%5Flive%5Fat%5Fsdn</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I did an interview  for SDN about performance tuning.]]></description></item><item><title>EC2, S3, and JungleDisk</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/ec2_s3_and_jungledisk.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/ec2_s3_and_jungledisk.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ec2%5Fs3%5Fand%5Fjungledisk</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Though EC2 and S3 have both been around for almost 2 years now, I&#39;ve only just recently got around to checking them out. First impressions, EC2 is great! Few minutes of work and you&#39;re got yourself a virtual machine running RH Linux. The vm l]]></description></item><item><title>Mac OS forced quit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/mac_os_forced_quit.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/mac_os_forced_quit.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mac%5Fos%5Fforced%5Fquit</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When Mac OS is under extreme load it seems to be fairly easy for applications to miss a message and stop responding. If this happens to finder it can appear as though nothing wants to work anymore. Not even the &quot;Force Quit&quot; option will show]]></description><category>mac</category><category>osx</category><category>forced</category><category>quit</category></item><item><title>A plea for help</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/a_plea_for_help.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/a_plea_for_help.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fplea%5Ffor%5Fhelp</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have a simple rule about posting email, I don&#39;t unless the other people are cool with it. However Heinz just reminded me that sometimes you need to break your rules. Though I didn&#39;t follow his advice in the way it was intended, I&#39;m brea]]></description></item><item><title>Google Docs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/google_docs.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/google_docs.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=google%5Fdocs</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just yesterday Jeroen and I finished up on a two part article that takes a look at locking optimizations in Java 6. As with any extensive undertaking there were a number of people involved in the creation of this piece of work. Cliff Click provided a]]></description></item><item><title>JavaONE so far</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/javaone_so_far.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/javaone_so_far.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=javaone%5Fso%5Ffar</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Though JavaONE maybe half over but for me it&#39;s just about to start. I signed up for a way too many sessions and in the end had to ditch a number of them in favor of more time for lab preparation and last minute meetings with various people.The bi]]></description></item><item><title>JavaONE HOL</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/javaone_hol.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/javaone_hol.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=javaone%5Fhol</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I finally got into the lab today to test my hands on lab. Unfortunately the materials were printed from an older version of the slides. 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IMHO, no because I&#39;m trying to look at what is happening with Java 7.]]></description></item><item><title>Upside down benchmarking</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/upside_down_benching.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/upside_down_benching.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=upside%5Fdown%5Fbenching</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the more difficult puzzlers that I presented in Vegas has to do with benchmarks, or configurations that resulted in response times that went in a completely different direction than expected. For example, one application that I was working wit]]></description></item><item><title>TED releases Gore&apos;s new thinking on Climate change</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/ted_releases_gores_new_thinking_on_climate_change.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/ted_releases_gores_new_thinking_on_climate_change.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ted%5Freleases%5Fgores%5Fnew%5Fthinking%5Fon%5Fclimate%5Fchange</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TED has released Al Gore&#39;s session  at their last conference. In that video he shows the amount of ice loss from the Northern ice cap. Al show evidence that the remaining summer ice pack could be gone with-in five years. He also compares Earth to]]></description></item><item><title>Measuring Serialization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/measuring_serialization.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/measuring_serialization.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=measuring%5Fserialization</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last night I spoke at the Paris JUG. The location was quite interesting, a smallish theater in the back of a store that sold art, lamp oils and other things. At first I thought I was in the wrong place. Even many of the attendees had to be coaxed int]]></description></item><item><title>Can I Bench With Virtualization?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/can_i_bench_with_virtualization.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/can_i_bench_with_virtualization.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=can%5Fi%5Fbench%5Fwith%5Fvirtualization</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Can I run a benchmark using virtualization is a question that I&#39;ve been asked on a number of occasions. The short answer is, no, you can&#39;t. The first hint that virtualization wasn&#39;t going to be an option was when I first installed VMWare]]></description></item><item><title>So you want to write a micro benchmark</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/so_you_want_to_write_a_micro_benchmark.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/so_you_want_to_write_a_micro_benchmark.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=so%5Fyou%5Fwant%5Fto%5Fwrite%5Fa%5Fmicro%5Fbenchmark</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While listening on a thread between Charles Nutter and David Rose, this link  popped up. It is a list of things you need to consider when constructing a microbenchmark.At the moment I am throughly convinced that the only useful thing that can come fr]]></description></item><item><title>TSSJS Vegas and Other Stuff</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/tssjs_vegas_and_other_stuff.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/tssjs_vegas_and_other_stuff.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tssjs%5Fvegas%5Fand%5Fother%5Fstuff</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thursday wrapped up my time at TSSJS. I did my puzzlers talk with Brian. It was difficult to imagine how the puzzlers would work and though I see room for improvements, it worked well enough that I will do it again. Having Brian to banter back and fo]]></description></item><item><title>TSSJS-Vegas</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/tssjsvegas_1.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/tssjsvegas_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tssjsvegas%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As the host for the high performance and scalability track, I&#39;m happy to say that all of the speakers that spoke yesterday in that track really hit their strides. Most particularly impressive was the talk given by Brian Goetz and Cliff Click on h]]></description></item><item><title>Booking trans-atlantic with Lufthansa? 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If you are lucky, your benchmarking results will leave you feeling pu]]></description></item><item><title>My Banks Website</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://kirk.blog-city.com/my_banks_website.htm</guid><link>http://kirk.blog-city.com/my_banks_website.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://kirk.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fbanks%5Fwebsite</comments><dc:creator>Kirk Pepperdine</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[First and foremost this entry is a rant. So if you&#39;re not up to it, I&#39;d advise you to click out now. Rants tags are now invoked.It all started with an innocent trip to open a new account. My new bank offers a personalized card service. 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