As I mentioned previously, I do intend to continue working on Project Darkstar part-time at least while I search for new employment opportunities. Not only will it allow me and whoever else is interested push along the original goals of the project, but it will also give me a perfect place to keep my [...]
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Shocking News
It’s been a while since I posted anything on this blog, and I wish my return was the result of better circumstances but no such luck: my position at Sun Microsystems has been eliminated, and as a result I have been let go. It is ironic that the European Union’s lengthy delay in approving [...]
Rule 1 of Programming: It’s Always Your Fault (Almost)
Over the past week or so, I’ve been working on putting together some micro benchmarks for Project Darkstar. There has been a significant uptick in forum activity lately relating to stress testing and performance issues. In particular, we’ve seen many questions along the lines: “I can only connect X users to my darkstar [...]
Austin GDC 2009
Last week, a number of us from the Project Darkstar team were in Austin for the Austin Game Developer’s Conference. Like last year, we had a large booth on the expo floor. However, while last year we were largely focused on demonstrating Project Darkstar’s capabilities to scale and distribute load across multiple cores [...]
JavaOne Podcast
About a month ago I spent a week in San Francisco for JavaOne 2009. One of the activities that I participated in there was the java.net Community Corner where I recorded a podcast on Project Darkstar. Well, the podcast is now up on the java.net site for download and it turned out really [...]
Hello Project Darkstar! in Netbeans and Eclipse
With Project Darkstar’s new distribution structure (introduced in version 0.9.8 and explained here), people ask from time to time what the best way is to setup a project in Netbeans or Eclipse. I think the typical answer that you see the most fits the acronym “TMTOWTDI” (There’s More Than One Way To Do It). [...]
JavaOne: Signing Off
I just went to two more sessions here on the last day at JavaOne and they were actually both quite good. The first was given by William Pugh who is one of the creators of the FindBugs static analysis tool. We use FindBugs extensively in our build process with Project Darkstar and it [...]
JavaOne: Days 3 and 4
I’m here at the final day of the JavaOne conference and things are starting to wind down. The pavilion floor is closed, there are only a few sessions left on the schedule, and people are starting to wrap things up. Karl and Keith actually caught flights home this morning but this being my [...]
JavaOne: CommunityCorner
I’m writing this post from one of the hundreds of Sun Ray stations scattered throughout the Moscone Center at JavaOne. If you don’t know what a Sun Ray is, it’s essentially a stateless thin client that, when I stick my JavaOne badge into, will pull up a virtual desktop associated with my JavaOne id [...]
JavaOne: Day 2
I’m back for another recap, this time of day two at JavaOne. I managed to get up early again this morning and attend the morning keynote. To be honest, it was a bit of a yawn today. It was basically a marketing pitch for Sony Ericsson’s platform and how they are making [...]
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