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

RSS Digest: Week Ending 25-Jun-2011

Java

Top 5 free Java ebooks
http://www.mkyong.com/featured/top-5-free-java-ebooks/

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

How to upload your artifacts to Maven Central?
http://www.codinginahurry.com/2011/04/24/how-to-upload-your-artifacts-to-maven-central/

A Method for Reducing Contention and Overhead in Worker Queues for Multithreaded Java Applications
http://today.java.net/article/2011/06/14/method-reducing-contention-and-overhead-worker-queues-
multithreaded-java-applications

Garbage collection with Automatic Resource Management in Java 7
http://javawithswaranga.blogspot.com/2011/06/garbage-collection-with-automatic.html

Java Heaps and Garbage Collection with some Zazz
http://codedependents.com/2011/06/10/java-heaps-and-garbage-collection-with-some-zazz/


Unix

Efficiently Navigating Directories on UNIX
http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2011/06/efficiently-navigating-directories-on.html


Technology

Palicomp Phoenix i5 Z68 Warrior review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/desktops/368095/palicomp-phoenix-i5-z68-warrior

RSS Digest: Week Ending 13-May-2011

Java

How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs
http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-differs-in-the-three-big-jvms/

Easy Red-Black Trees
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2011/05/12/easy-red-black-trees


Technology

Life inside Apple: Fortune article reveals anger, management and 'top 100' club
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/may/09/inside-apple-fortune-steve-jobs-business-management

Will Apple grab Samsung’s game-changing display?
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/05/13/will-apple-grab-samsungs-game-changing-display/

RSS Digest: Week Ending 25-Mar-2011

Java

The Performance Paradox of the JVM: Why More Hardware Means More Failures
http://docs.media.bitpipe.com/io_25x/io_25445/item_394514/Azul_TheServerSide_SO%23033729_Expert-Tip_031611.pdf

Java Tip: Find process id of running Java process
http://boxysystems.com/index.php/java-tip-find-process-id-of-running-java-process/

The impact of Garbage Collection on Java performance
http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/03/24/the-impact-of-garbage-collection-on-java-performance/


UNIX/Linux

My Bash Profile - Part IV: Functions
http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-bash-profile-part-iv-functions.html


Technology

May’s Law and Parallel Software
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8422/

Apple iPad 2 review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/tablets/366115/apple-ipad-2

Satellite snaps extent of Japan's post-quake blackout
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/extent-of-post-quake-blackout.html

New Intel Turbo Boost Technology
http://drdobbs.com/blogs/high-performance-computing/229301335

Nintendo 3DS: the essential guide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/mar/22/nintendo-3ds-review

Firefox 4 finally ready to roll
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/366235/firefox-4-finally-ready-to-roll

iPad 2 Arrives in 25 More Countries This Friday
http://www.apple.com/uk/pr/library/2011/03/22ipad.html

CUDAfy - General Purpose GPU Development on .NET
http://insidehpc.com/2011/03/23/cudafy-general-purpose-gpu-development-on-net/

RSS Digest: Week Ending 04-Feb-2011

Java

Re-booting OpenJDK governance
http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/openjdk_gov_reboot

How to explain growing Worker Threads under Load
https://community.dynatrace.com/community/display/PUB/How+to+explain+growing+Worker+Threads+under+Load

Visualising Garbage Collection in the JVM
http://redstack.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/visualising-garbage-collection-in-the-jvm/

Java Memory Model - Quick overview and things to notice
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/02/java-memory-model-quick-overview-and.html


Technology

Next-gen iPad spotted at The Daily launch
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/364963/next-gen-ipad-spotted-at-the-daily-launch

RSS Digest: Week Ending 31-Dec-2010

Java

Java concurrency bug patterns for multicore systems
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-concurrencybugpatterns/

Josh Bloch on Java and Programming
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/josh-bloch-java-prog

Java SE & Java EE Performance: A Lot Of Garbage
http://ua.sun.com/java/Performance_SRitter.pdf

A Comparative Study of JVM Implementations with SPECjvm2008
http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/~hitoshi/RESEARCH/iccea2010.pdf

Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html

NUMA-Aware Java Heaps for Server Applications
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/ipdps05.pdf

Help for the NUMA Weary
http://blogs.sun.com/jonthecollector/entry/help_for_the_numa_weary

Java Knobs: How to Change Performance of the Sun JVM
http://www4.java.no/presentations/javazone/2007/slides/5334.pdf

Do Java 6 threading optimizations actually work?
http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-threading-optimizations-p1


Other

Scientific Computing on Heterogeneous Architectures
http://babrodtk.at.ifi.uio.no/files/publications/brodtkorb_phd_thesis.pdf

Google Body Browser
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
(requires a WebGL browser)

The disposable academic - Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223

Sick of reading? Five cool things you can do with your Amazon Kindle
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/12/27/sick-of-reading-five-cool-things-you-can-do-with-your-amazon-kindle/

Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture Exposed
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-bridge-architecture-exposed