I visited the resting place of half a million sand hill cranes over the weekend. Somewhere on 12 miles of the Platte River between Carney and Grand Island Nebraska reside the entire migrating population of the world’s sandhill cranes. My father-in-law and I sat in a blind Saturday evening and caught […]
This man wrote fascinating essays on software engineering that I have enjoyed reading over and over again. I’m asking my favorite calligraphic artist to scribe a part of the introduction to “The Mythical Man Month” for me.
Tripped over a link to this great article during my morning read.
There is no hierarchy of importance among the different aspects of a software design. An incorrect design at the lowest module level can be as fatal as a mistake at the highest level. A software design must be complete and correct in all its […]
A plugin to enhance eclipse performance on windows. I haven’t had performance problems yet. But I’ll try this if I do.
http://suif.stanford.edu/pub/keepresident/
This St. Pats I started reading the next book in the “hinges of history” series. It’s about how the Irish saved western civilization. More to come.
I’m finished with the book. Very good read. Very accessible. I like the nuggets of analysis like his thoughts on the difficult words in Exodus about God hardening Pharaoh’s heart. Paul discusses this in one of his letters. I’ll have to see if the ideas jive with each other. […]
How to format sql plus column output:
set recsep off
set linesize 100
set newpage 0
set pagesize 999
column famname head last_name format a15
column calendar_year head c_yr format 9999
I’ve needed this information too often to want to hunt it down ever again.
java -Xms32m -Xmx200m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m com.thoughthuas.SomeWonderfulApp
Here are a few links to explain the MaxPermSize:
MaxPermSize and how it relates to the overall heap
http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/VMOptions.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/
Well I had a pretty productive weekend.
Blocked windows frosted in the living room
Kitchen cabinet primed
Windshield wipers replaced
Rock climbing
first somewhat cool Flex application written
Pretty good list.
I was so excited to get my family back at the train station. Linus continues to mature. And I can sleep again now that my wife is […]
Time for me to remember the good ‘ol days when I could get anything and everything done all in one day! Who am I kidding. As much as I dream about being uber productive during these times I realize that having people around me who are doing things motivates me way more than […]
That’s much better. The old look of this site was the default wordpress (ver 1.2) template. Yuck. Now I have the Kubrick tempalte installed. Nice work Mr. Heilemann.
I’m about halfway through the book now. I don’t have much time but I wanted to drop a few thoughts. It’s good writing. The kind I like anyway. The topic couldn’t be more interesting to me. It casts some new light on the text in Genesis in Exodus that makes […]
Here’s a nice collection of little queries for getting information about the objects in an oracle database.