Just jotting down some recommendations from a friend:

Create an EXE4J_JAVA_HOME environment variable that points to your JDK installation (i.e. export EXE4J_JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME). Delete the <idea install dir>/jre directory Add the following JVM options to what you may already have in Idea’s JVM config (<idea install dir>/bin/idea.exe.vmoptions on Windows):

-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode

Just a quick note to self:

After looking at the JDK source code today, we found that even when setting -Djava.awt.headless=true, if a script executes with the DISPLAY environment variable set, the AWT graphics environment will still use a GraphicsEnvironment representing that DISPLAY.

A major problem with this is if the shell that launched the [...]

A friend of mine recently pointed me to this forum thread, and I’d like to add my thoughts, based on actual long-term experience in driving a 535i with the Steptronic transmission with paddle shifters for over a year.

The BMW’s paddle shifters don’t work like Ferrari or Formula 1 cars, where the right paddle [...]

Since it just makes good sense to understand a problem before we dole out the cash, let’s ask ourselves a question before we go spending (quite a bit) of our tax dollars.

Why are the U.S. auto makers in a crunch? Of course our economy isn’t great and that’s one reason, but you must still [...]

This is an old post. I have long since moved on to Maven as described here

The JSecurity team had a recent discussion on whether or not to use Maven 2 or Ant+Ivy moving forward. At the end of the day, I didn’t really care that much about which system we used, but [...]

Groovy is by far my favorite scripting language, since it leverages and integrates with all the Java stuff I use (applications, tools, server software, etc). It is just as expressive and powerful as Ruby, Python, etc., but feels a little simpler or cleaner, depending on the comparison.

Here are two fantastic resources in the ‘Cookbook’ [...]

This post outlines how to re-create a subversion repository after a total failure or loss (disk overwritten, disk crash, accidentally deleted, etc) when you have no repository backups and only developers’ working copies. If you’ve lost your SVN server and have no backups of your repository, and you don’t want to do manual per-file copying [...]

So I was at work today, hammering away on the keyboard, when out of nowhere, as if coming through faint elevator speakers off in the distance, I heard Hiki’s first song on her latest Ultra Blue album, entitled “This is Love”.

I thought to myself, “Man, am I hearing things? What the hell? I [...]