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Kirk Pepperdine
Kirk Pepperdine has more than 10 years of experience in OO technologies. In edition to his work in the area of performance tuning, Kirk has focused on building middleware for distributed applications. |
Déjà Vu By Kirk Pepperdine Has it really been a year
since the last JavaOne?
It seems like yesterday
that I was watching James
Gosling launch T-shirts
into the audience using a
trebuchet! What a year it
has been. Who would have
thought that Microsoft
and Sun would come to the
agreement they d... Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,091 | Where Is Open Source in
the App Server Surveys? By Kirk Pepperdine Just recently Gartner
reported that IBM has
overtaken BEA in
application server market
share. The interesting
thing is that Gartner's
expression of market
share is in a single
number, dollars. While
dollars are certainly an
important factor in
declaring a market
... Jun. 3, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 21,181 Replies: 8 | All's Quiet on the West
Coast By Kirk Pepperdine It was April 2, when I
first heard the news that
Sun and Microsoft had
reached a settlement on
their long-standing
dispute over Java. When I
first saw the headline, I
honestly thought it was a
leftover April Fool's
joke, so I ignored it. It
was only when I saw the
... May. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,799 Replies: 1 | The Commercialization of
Open Source By Kirk Pepperdine We've all heard the news:
JBoss has received $10
million in funding and
now it's time to sit back
and mull it over. Without
a doubt this infusion of
capital is a signal of
confidence for JBoss
Group. But is this
investment a good thing
for open source? Not an
unim... Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 29,584 Replies: 9 | JDJ Meets Sun's JCP 2.6
Maestro, Aaron Williams By Kirk Pepperdine 'We want to involve more
people sooner,' says
Sun's Aaron Williams, as
Sun launches JCP 2.6.
JDJ's enterprise editor
Kirk Pepperdine talks
with Williams about his
passionate belief that
transparency will help
demystify the process by
which JSRs move through
the va... Mar. 11, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,581 | Yet Another IDE War By Kirk Pepperdine Well, you may have seen
the Java Industry
Newsletter's hot story,
'Eclipse versus
NetBeans.' As an editor
of this fine publication,
it's my privilege to see
all of our feedback
arriving at my inbox. My
first reaction was, oh
please, not another IDE
war. But I duti... Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 26,034 Replies: 3 | Our Roots By Kirk Pepperdine Do you enjoy history? I
do. In fact, I've always
enjoyed history for I've
always found that
understanding the past
has been useful in
helping me to understand
the here and now. Part of
my here and now is the
taking on of the role of
enterprise editor. Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,518 | No Fluff, Just Stuff: A
Just In Time Conference By Kirk Pepperdine Last year I was
introduced to the No
Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS)
Software symposium in
Atlanta. It was a
high-quality experience
in every aspect. The
speakers delivered more
than technical
information, they
delivered an insight into
what was happening in our
industry. Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 19,569 | JavaPolis2003 By Kirk Pepperdine Kirk Pepperdine spent the
last few days in Antwerp
at the BeJUG's (Belgium
Java Users Group) second
offering of JavaPolis.
Learn how he got on. Dec. 8, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 13,080 Replies: 3 | WebLogic JRockit 8.1 by
BEA Systems By Kirk Pepperdine The JRockit engineers
made two assumptions when
they first designed
JRockit. First, server
VMs run for a long time
and, second, memory is
cheap and plentiful. Nov. 3, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 32,660 | Customizing Ant By Kirk Pepperdine You have a task that your
Ant build process needs
to perform and none of
the built-in or dozens of
optional tasks fits the
bill. If at this point
you're thinking that Ant
won't work for you, then
the authors of Ant have
some wonderful news. The
framework they use... Sep. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 21,460 Replies: 2 | Unleashing Tiger By Kirk Pepperdine Up till now, changes to
Java have been pretty
much constrained to APIs
and the inner workings of
the Java 2 platform. All
of this will change once
the JDK 1.5 has been
released. The extent of
these changes was
revealed in a recent
interview with Joshua
Bloch. Aug. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 15,770 Replies: 3 | A Multiple Application
Launcher By Kirk Pepperdine By necessity, the
operating system loads
each VM into its own
separate process slot.
Consequently, each VM is
forced to duplicate the
other's initialization
efforts and resource
allocations.
Specifically, each VM is
required to load the JDK
core classes into their... Apr. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 18,512 Replies: 1 | JCP 2.6 to "Open Up the
Process" By Kirk Pepperdine (May 29, 2003) - Late
last week, Sun
Microsystems started
briefing everyone on the
changes that will be
implemented in version
2.6 of the JCP. In this
revised version of the
JCP are plans to increase
both the transparency and
the level of involvement
in the proces... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 9,649 Replies: 3 |
TODAY'S TOP 10 LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON! YOUR FEEDBACK  | Is Sun Looking to Replace
CEO Jonathan Schwartz? By Maureen O'Gara Brigdson Smith wrote:
remember, Eric Schmidt
was Schwartz's first boss
at Sun - something tells
me if he left Sun, it'd
take four minutes for him
to end up to Google. | | What Does the Future Hold
for the Java Language? By Joe Winchester Tommy wrote: I simply do
not agree on many parts:
- .NET has a lot of
traction
- you can
certainly know well (and
master) more than one
language. If you cannot
master more than one
language, this could
potentially be one of
your limits.
- Java is not a perfect
language
- It is ea... | | i-Technology Opinion: Why
Use Extreme Programming? By Troy Holmes James Nwaba wrote: This
is a nice article - very
straight froward, easy to
understand.However, there
was no mention of any
organization that have
implemented XP.
The author said, "Many of
the concepts found in
this lightweight method
of development have been
implemented into the ... | | iPhone Office: 100 Ways
to Turn Your Device into
the Ultimate Productivity
Tool By Jessica Merritt QueZZtion wrote: Can the
iPhone really work as a
multimedia remote for
iTunes or even a desktop? | | DoJa in NTT DoCoMo Phones By Zev Blut Venkat wrote: Excellent
explanation. It will be
helpful if it was in
pictorial form ie with
the emulator images. Can
u please send me the
I-mode to I appli
communication and a brief
explanatioj about the
architecture.Thanks in
advance. |
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