Some say RSCDS is only for older people and young Scotts do not like it. You only have to look at the pictures from the Glasgow Festival to see that it is completely opposite case. I like the one for The Dashing White Sergeant the most. Tags: rscds

I am presenting at JavaOne again this year, My session is TS-1669 entitled " Unhappily ever after: support, maintenance and troubleshooting of Java applications in production environments " It covers more topics than the one I did in 2004. It also seems to have been marked as more interesting by Sun. Last time I remember having about 300 people in the room. This time, the earmarked room is for 700 people.

Andrew is confused why his ‘drab’ article on speeding up JBoss is much more popular than his repost of a deep voodoo article asking other people to implement someting that he finds interesting. I wonder! I have linked to the speeding up article when I saw it, because it was something useful either immediately or later if I do have strange slow-downs/memory issues to troubleshoot. It (as I mentioned originally) was also useful beyond JBoss and I knew that because I had to explain the same issues to the customers using Weblogic.

Ever tried running multiple Tomcat on the same machine and have that fail because of the port conflict. And not because of the HTTP listen port conflict - because you did know about that one and changed it. But, rather, because of the other ports that are open out of the box as well that even Tomcat’s documentation does not mention. So, turns out that Tomcat 5, has 3 ports open and what interesting ports they are:

A pretty funny story from the game Second Life illustrating what happens when the USA-based virtual world developers only think they know the issues of internationalization (i18n for the geeks in you). Next time I am logged-in, I will try typing in Russian and see whether that will do the trick as well. I wonder what the good phrase will be? Maybe ‘Проверка боем…..’