Daryl's Blog

  • Hazelcast Open Source In Memory Data Grid – HeapCode.COM

    http://www.heapcode.com/in-memory-data-grid/ Read ⇢

  • Beginner’s Guide To Hazelcast Part 1

    Introduction I am going to be doing a series on Hazelcast. I learned about this product from Twitter. They decided to follow me and after some research into what they do, I decided to follow them. I tweeted that Hazelcast would be a great backbone for a distributed password cracker.… Read ⇢

  • A Little Java Info Courtesy of Java Code Geeks

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  • Balancing Work Life With Home Life

    I have a wife and a full time job That should bring a lot of nods out there.  Most of the developers I have met in my career are married and are parents.  In a world where there is so many different technologies being developed and used,  it can be difficult… Read ⇢

  • How to Use Callable and FutureTask

    Introduction Since Java 1.5 there has been a new set of objects under java.util.concurrent.  This package has a number of different classes including thread queues.  I could have used those when I was programming with Java 1.2!  When I started looking at the new toys I became hesitant.  What is… Read ⇢

  • BufferedReader of The EOF Kind

    Introduction I have been adding automated tests in projects that I have written at work.  One of these projects outputs CEF formatted messages to syslog.  The test required that /var/log/messages be read and compare the CEF message with the known good message.  I ran into a problem while reading the… Read ⇢

  • Three Ways to Solve a Problem

    Introduction I wanted to show the differences of three different languages.  I made a palindrome detector with Java, Groovy and Python.  Technically the Python I used is CPython so it is not Java but JPython runs in the JVM so I am counting it as a Java related language.  Groovy… Read ⇢

  • When a String is Null but Not Null

    Introduction A junior programmer on my team at work had an interesting bug.  Its symptoms I have seen more than once.  This post is what to look for and how to prevent it in the future.  I also explore different solutions to the problem. Symptoms The code in question looked… Read ⇢

  • What I Have Learned So Far

    Introduction This is a list of what I have learned about the “soft skills” of Software Development. 1. It’s all about communication Did you hate writing papers in school?  I did and so I just did OK on them.  I get into the real world and I have run into… Read ⇢

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