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I was recently considering trying out the new G1 garbage collector, see if it was any better than current real time CMS garbage collector. A concurrent soft real-time garbage collector that can compact? Awesome! I switched one of my production applications to use the new G1 garbage collector and noticed a spike in CPU and […]

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Today, I am open sourcing my Ruby LocaleTranslator; the translator uses google’s translator API to translate a primary seed locale into various other languages. This eases the creation of multi-lingual sites. Not only can the LocaleTranslator translate your main seed locale into different languages but it can also recursively merge in differences, this comes in […]

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I have a very non-standard storage setup at home. The setup is made up of a 3x500G raidz array on ZFS hosted by OSX. For the longest time I could not get files to copy over samba on ZFS. The files would stream just fine but not copy over, they would abort at the 99% […]

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I recently needed to make use of our ActiveMQ message queue service to scale up write performance of CouchDB. However, there seemed to be a bug with JRuby that kills off the STOMP subscriber every 5 seconds. Digging a bit deeper into the STOMP source, I figured out a way to get around the bug […]

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I spent the better part of the day trying to figure out why the Final Cut Pro audio was out of sync. The audio would be delayed by 3 seconds in playback. I thought it was some setting in Final Cut Pro that broke, but eventually came to the conclusion that it was the OS […]

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I hate expired sessions, death to all expired sessions. Traditionally a Java servlet container has a fixed session time, a flood of traffic can potentially cause JVM OOM errors if the session time is set too high. I wanted a smart session container that can hold onto sessions for as long as possible and expire […]

I’ll start this post off with a quote from IRC ivaynberg: you cant build good looking sites with wicket victori: lies ivaynberg: or public-facing sites I have to admit that Wicket appeals more to the “backend” programmer than to the front-end design conscious developer. For every good-looking Wicket site out there, there are ten abysmal […]

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I used to backup our database using the following statement; pg_dump -h fab2 -Fc -Z9 somedb > somedb.db Once our dataset grew into the gigabytes, it took a very long time to do database dumps. Today, I stumbled upon yet another awesome blog post done by Ted Dzibua mentioning two useful parallel compression utilities. So […]

I just pushed up a new version of Satan to GitHub. For the uniformed uninformed Satan is my process reaper for run away unix processes. Satan was designed to work with Solaris’ SMF self-healing properties. Basically, Satan kills while SMF revives. The new version that was pushed up contains HTTP health checks, so Satan now […]

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Ted Dziuba beautifully articulated why deadlines go to crap and seemingly straight forward tasks go out the window. You sir have done a public service for us all, thank you. What I hate is fording endless rivers of horseshit that are in the way of seemingly simple tasks. And I hate it even more when […]