Java 10 HotSpot Disassembly on macOS High Sierra

Printing Generated Assembly Code From The Hotspot JIT Compiler documented back in 2013 how to view Java Hotspot generated assembly code. While still useful, the disassembler plugin referenced in the post is no longer available in binary form as the Kenai project has been decommissioned. A number of references are available on how to build the… Continue reading Java 10 HotSpot Disassembly on macOS High Sierra

Cloud Storage Costs

Overview Recently I did a survey of cloud storage options and their costs. My focus was to find the cheapest, scalable storage solution that I can use with minimal cost to begin with. If you are starting a new mobile app project, without any seed funding, the best choices are still Google Cloud Datastore and… Continue reading Cloud Storage Costs

Product Management

As a Staff-level Software Engineer, this post by Joel Spolsky best describes my standard of excellence for Product Managers – mostly in terms of the degree of attention to detail and technical aptitude that I would expect from a self-respecting, ambitious Product Manager. Even though Joel is talking about his experience as a Program Manager at Microsoft, most… Continue reading Product Management

The Software Business

I was reminded today of a quote by Bill Gates I had read 6 years ago in then-Sun Microsystem’s just-ex-CEO, Jonathan Schwartz. Here it is: The software business [is] all about building variable revenue streams from a fixed engineering cost base This is from Schwartz’s Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal post, which is also very informative about how Software Patents… Continue reading The Software Business

WordPress on AWS

Introduction I had been running my WordPress blog on a shared hosting account at a shared hosting provider for a while now, when about a month ago I decided to consider alternative solutions. In particular, I wanted to see if I can lower the cost of running my site. Here was my starting point: Web Hosting from shared… Continue reading WordPress on AWS

Dart vs Java (cont'd) — Richards and Tracer

This week I managed to port the rest of Dart’s benchmark_harness examples to Java. The experience of porting Richards and Tracer was as smooth as that of porting the DeltaBlue benchmark. The only unfamiliar (and interesting) Dart feature I encountered that is worth noting was the ability to declare and pass method parameters by name.… Continue reading Dart vs Java (cont'd) — Richards and Tracer

Dart vs Java — the DeltaBlue Benchmark

As of the time of this writing the performance page on dartlang.org tracks Dart VM performance as measured by the DeltaBlue benchmark. I ported the benchmark_harness Dart package (including the DeltaBlue benchmark) into Java and ran against the latest Java 7 and 8 JDKs. The experience of translating Dart to Java was surprisingly smooth. Some… Continue reading Dart vs Java — the DeltaBlue Benchmark

On Openness

I am a firm believer in openness. That is the reason I believe open source has such great value. The way I see it, the word open in “open source” does not just refer to the source code: it also means open communication, open structure, open management… openness in every aspect of a project. Yet,… Continue reading On Openness

Stalemate

There is no new Java split editor yet. I got overwhelmed by new issues that I discovered while testing last week’s prototype including the fact that most preference changes do not propagate to both editors or cause exceptions. I am looking into the alternative MultiEditor-based approach and this is leading me to some interesting ideas… Continue reading Stalemate

First split editor prototypes available

In the true spirit of “release early, release often” I am making my first prototype of a split editor available now as an Eclipse plugin. The plugin works in the new Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede. Download, place in your Eclipse dropins directory and you’re set to go. Instructions on how to test the plugin are available… Continue reading First split editor prototypes available