There was yet another huge flamewar over whether or not debuggers are useful or the tools of lazy slobs. Count me in the former: I like using a debugger. Tests are great for shaking out issues with code and for maintaining confidence. However, when things get rough (and they will), it’s nice to look at exactly what’s going on inside the code.
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Minimize RMI Round Trips: It’s a Best Practice for a Reason
October 4, 2006Another tale from the profiler. The application I’m profiling uses RMI as communications transport between client and server. A particular operation took much longer in client-server mode than it did when we run in our “all-in-one-JVM” development mode. Which is a good lesson to try and run your app as it is deployed as much as possible during development.
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Irssi
October 3, 2006I just made the switch from EPIC & scripts to Irssi. It’s been an easy and nice change. Nice windowing out of the box, and the scripting (via Perl) is so much nicer than EPIC. Current favorite: post urls to del.icio.us.
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