TSSJS-Vegas- March 27, 2008 As the host for the high performance and scalability track, I&39;m happy to say that all of the speakers that spoke yesterday in that track really hit their strides. Most particularly impressive was the talk given by Brian Goetz and Cliff Click on hhttp://kirk.blog-city.com/tssjsvegas_1.htm Booking trans-atlantic with Lufthansa Beware of the full fare down grade- March 25, 2008 Just got into Vegas TSSJS conference on a ticket booked through Lufthansa. The ticketing followed my typical pattern. Get to either Frankfurt or Munich, hop on a long haul to get to North America, flip to a domestic flight to get to the final destinahttp://kirk.blog-city.com/booking_transatlantic_with_lufthansa_beware_of_the_full_fa.htm How I killed Lufthansas "award booking" website- March 25, 2008 It all started when I recently tried to book some award travel on Lufthansa. I went to their awards booking page and entered my preferred dates of travel. The response page told me that my departure date wasn&39;t available and instead gave me a dathttp://kirk.blog-city.com/how_i_killed_lufthansas_award_booking_website.htm Why is benchmarking so hard- March 19, 2008 Benchmarking and particularly microbenching are tricky things to get right. I find it&39;s rare when one writes a benchmark that does the work we expect it to in a meaningful way. If you are lucky, your benchmarking results will leave you feeling puhttp://kirk.blog-city.com/why_is_benchmarking_so_hard.htm My Banks Website- March 18, 2008 First and foremost this entry is a rant. So if you&39;re not up to it, I&39;d advise you to click out now. Rants tags are now invoked.It all started with an innocent trip to open a new account. My new bank offers a personalized card service. Simplyhttp://kirk.blog-city.com/my_banks_website.htm More on Closures- March 13, 2008 Last night I had the rare occasion to have a face to face discussion about language, complexity, and a whole host of related topics that of course included generics and closures. It is no secret that I see little value with generics. In fact myhttp://kirk.blog-city.com/more_on_closures.htm QCon Performance Seminar Filled- March 7, 2008 My performance tuning seminar at QCon in London next Tuesday is completely full. I&39;m looking forward to the session as well as attending as many sessions as I can. I&39;m still in the middle of preparing for my JavaONE lab and I have to admit thhttp://kirk.blog-city.com/qcon_performance_seminar_filled.htm Not Using vi- March 5, 2008 Many years ago someone provided the advice, learn vi, it is the native editor on Unix and you know it will always be there. It seemed like sensible advice so I spent a bit of time learning the 10 or so key stroke combinations one needs to know in ordhttp://kirk.blog-city.com/not_using_vi.htm If you can't visit the floor....- March 3, 2008 One of the things that I like to do when carrying out a performance audit is to visit the people that are using the system. I like to watch how they work and interact with the system. You get to see pain points, jitters and pauses. You get to see nathttp://kirk.blog-city.com/if_you_cant_visit_the_floor.htm Preying on Hope- March 2, 2008 My mother-in-law has Glaucoma with some complications that so far have defied diagnosis or relief. The disease is painful at times and of course it is causing distress with family and friends. And then hope came with a suggestion. A possible treatmenhttp://kirk.blog-city.com/preying_on_hope.htm |