lesswatts.org and IDF

Yesterday morning I was at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Intel announced this new community effort called lesswatts. (http://lesswatts.org) (I suggested fewerwatts but the folks involved said less sounded better…ok then   Either way – the idea behind the project is to help Linux make better use of the new power features [...]

Update on Adaptive Cursor Sharing

In December 2007 we did a post on the new Oracle Database 11g feature Adaptive Cursor Sharing called Why are there more cursor in 11g for my queries containing binds. In this post we explained that in Oracle Database 11g it was possible to have multiple execution plans for a single statement that uses bind [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]

Diagnosing Production Java applications with AD4J

One of my applications that uses EJB 3 and JPA was running much slower today and I had no clue what was going on. It is a very simple application to manage service requests. When I was trying to update some data for a service request – it was taking ever. Also searching of service [...]

EJB 3 In Action Examples on WebLogic 10

Several readers requested me to provide the code examples of EJB 3 in Action for BEA WebLogic 10. We have earlier provided examples for Glassfish, Oracle Application Server and JBoss. I spent sometime last weekend to port these examples to Weblogic 10. You can download examples for first four chapters. These examples have been modified [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]