Giving WebKit A Try

Just changed my default browser from Firefox to Webkit on Leopard (OS X 10.5.3). The main reason was because of the announcement of WebKits migration to the SquirrelFish Javascript interpreter. They claim that it is 1.6x’s faster than the previous WebKit interpreter and if its true, that is pretty good considering most of my daily work flow is based around web based applications.

Proposed Java 7 Feature: Safe Rethrow

How many times have you written the following code:

Proposed Java 7 Feature: Multi-Catch Statements

How many times have you written code where you have something along the lines of:

Amazon’s EC2 and You

The purpose of this post is to give you a “high” level overview of Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), and how you can benefit from it.  Amazon defines the EC2 as

Java One Wrap Up

The purpose of this post is to wrap up my thoughts on this past Java One Conference. There are both positive and not so positive thoughts in my mind right now about the conference. Rather than merely stating this fact, let me describe the details to you.