Year: 2007
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Update on 10 Minute Mail problems
As you know if you’ve been following my blog, 10MinuteMail starting dying with OutOfMemory errors seemly randomly. Sometimes it would happen after 2 days of uptime, sometimes after a week. I ran load tests and profilers but could not reproduce the issue. On the upside I can say that the 10 Minute Mail application can…
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10MinuteMail upgraded again
Moved up to Seam 2.0 CR3, and JBoss 4.2.2. I also optimized some code, got rid of some useless error logging, etc… Hopefully it will perform a little better:) So far it seems to process incoming e-mail much faster, which was a bottleneck under load. Enjoy!
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Quartz Scheduling and Seam (part 1)
I am working on a new application, which will require some scheduled jobs. I used EJB3 Timers in 10MinuteMail, but now Seam includes and uses Quartz, an open source scheduling system. So I figured I’d try the new hotness. So far, it’s been a rough road, and I’m not 100% up and running yet (hence…
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It’s no wonder that Sore and Parkour rhyme
On Monday I went to UW to try to learn a little Parkour. Christian has been into it for a while and has been in many newspaper articles and TV news spots and is pretty good. I figured it would be fun to try. I arrived at UW a little early due to some mercifully…
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A sense of security
Last night we went to a Halloween party. It was fun, and in a cool location, a large artistic studio warehouse thing underneath an interstate bridge. There was an outdoor area with a bar, a firepit, and a projection screen. There were two indoor areas: one with a bar and a performance area with musical…
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Feuer
I’m not going to blog about the tragedy of the California fires. However I do have family down there (who are safe, thankfully) who sent me some pretty amazing pictures. Which I wanted to share here: (click on an image below for full size)