Java Performance Services
Training, Seminars, Benchmarking, Tuning

Course Schedule


Java Performance Tuning
Chania Crete, May 18-21


Java Performance Tuning
Quick Start

Partnering with Informator
Stockholm Sweden,
Jan 29-30

Speaking @

, January 27-28.

QCon London, March 8-13

Calendar

««Jan 2009»»
SMTWTFS
     123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

Performance Anti-Patterns

My Top Tags

                                       

Mailing List

My RSS Feeds








A "Wile E. Coyote" Olympic Moment

posted Saturday, 23 August 2008

I bet there are not many people who've not heard of lovable cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. For those of you who not, this character always comes up with some ingenious way to catch his prey, the Roadrunner. Of course, it never works and the failures often leave the Coyote facing some horrible impending event. Most of the time it involves falling off a very high cliff and having the apparatus falling on top of him. The funny part is seeing the look of realization on Wile's face as he's haning in the air realizing that there is only one direction of travel.

 Since I've included the word Olmpic in the title I bet you've already guessed that I'm going to compare Wile E Coyote to Austraiian pole vaulter, Steve Hooker. I watched him last night running down the ramp all happy to vault himself over the bar. Just think of the anticipation, the focus and concentration on making it over the bar. Are these guys not thinking about what happens when they hop over a bar that is almost 6 meters high?  That is seriously high and what goes up, must come down. The only consultation is that if you don't quite make the  bar height, the bar will come crashing down on you after you've landed. That has got to be Wile E Coyote moment if there ever was one!