Leaving Blogger

All, after a few years of publishing my blog on the Blogger service provided by Google, I've decided to move to a paid blog with my own domain name hosted by Wordpress. Whilst Blogger is a great free blogging service, lately I have been reading about Google deleting people's accounts, for non-fee paying users Google has little accountability and it is difficult - if at all possible - to restore accounts later.

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RSS Digest: Week Ending 12-Aug-2011

Java

Collections Library for millions of elements
http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/08/collections-library-for-millions-of.html

Memory Barriers/Fences
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/memory-barriersfences.html

Inter Thread Latency
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/inter-thread-latency.html

Eliminate False Sharing
http://drdobbs.com/go-parallel/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217500206


Web

What’s the Fastest Web Browser in the Real World? Chrome
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/whats-the-fastest-web-browser-in-the-real-world-chrome/

RSS Digest: Week Ending 29-Jul-2011

Java

Disruptor
http://disruptor.googlecode.com/files/Disruptor-1.0.pdf

Hidden Java 7 Features - System and Process CPU Load Monitoring
http://sellmic.com/blog/2011/07/21/hidden-java-7-features-cpu-load-monitoring/

Top 15 java threading interview questions asked in Investment banks
http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-multi-threading-interview.html

The LMAX Architecture
http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html

Dissecting the Disruptor: Why it's so fast (part one) - Locks Are Bad
http://mechanitis.blogspot.com/2011/07/dissecting-disruptor-why-its-so-fast.html

Dissecting the Disruptor: Why it's so fast (part two) - Magic cache line padding
http://mechanitis.blogspot.com/2011/07/dissecting-disruptor-why-its-so-fast_22.html

Processor Affinity - Part 1
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/processor-affinity-part-1.html

Write Combining
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/write-combining.html

JavaOne 2011 Content Catalog is Available
http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/07/javaone-2011-content-catalog-is.html

Java 7 has released!
http://blogs.oracle.com/javase/entry/java_7_has_released

Java SE 7 Features and Enhancements
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html

RSS Digest: Week Ending 22-Jul-2011

Java

Java Collection Performance
http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-collection-performance

Tracing Java Applications with BTrace
http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2011/07/tracing-java-applications-with-btrace.html

Java SE 7: Final Release
http://mreinhold.org/blog/java-se-7-fr

JavaOne Content Catalog
https://oracleus.wingateweb.com/scheduler/eventcatalog/eventCatalogJavaOne.do?ts=1311150560194

How to get C like performance in Java
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/07/how-to-get-c-like-performance-in-java.html


Technology

Download 'Jenkins: The Definitive Guide'
http://www.wakaleo.com/download-jenkins-the-definitive-guide

Roles in the IT World
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/07/roles-in-it-world.html

Computing without Processors
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2000516

RSS Digest: Week Ending 15-Jul-2011

Java

Introducing Java 7
http://www.slideshare.net/myfear/introducing-java-7

Java SE 7 Documentation
http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/

7 new cool features in Java 7
http://sellmic.com/blog/2011/07/08/7-new-cool-features-in-java-7/

JRockit GC in Action
http://java.dzone.com/articles/jrockit-gc-action

Incorrect Core Java Interview Answers
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/07/incorrect-core-java-interview-answers.html


C++

All about 64-bit programming in one place
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/07/07/all-about-64-bit-programming-in-one-place/


Programming

JP Morgan supercomputer offers risk analysis in near real-time
http://www.cfoworld.co.uk/news/technology/3290497/jp-morgan-supercomputer-offers-risk-analysis-in-near-real-time/

ACE revisited
http://nighthacks.org/roller/jag/entry/ace_revisited

RSS Digest: Week Ending 08-Jul-2011

Java

Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors - 2011
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/07/top-25-most-dangerous-software-errors.html

JDK 7: Release Candidate
http://mreinhold.org/blog/jdk7-rc


Programming

Erlangs parallelism is not parallelism!
http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2011/07/erlangs-parallelism-is-not-parallelism.html

RSS Digest: Week Ending 01-Jul-2011

Java

Avoiding Classic Threading Problems
http://drdobbs.com/tools/231000499


Technology

Sony VAIO Z Series (2011) review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/laptops/368422/sony-vaio-z-series-2011