Thursday, September 14, 2006

JavaZone closeup and end-comments

The last day of JavaZone has been just as exiting as the first one. I tried to add a nice mix of high level process-oriented stuff with hard-core technical sessions to keep me from falling asleep today. Didn't have much sleep tonight, huh.
Mary Poppendieck had a great session on Lean SW-development. I am a great fan of the Poppendiecks and especially their first book on Lean Software Development:An Agile Toolkit.
Conventiently she announced that her new book is shipping as we speak. I am also in the process of entering my credit card number on amazon to get a copy.
Thereafter I dived into a session on DTrace, a feature of Solaris systems that enables full tracing of the entire software stack from a thread in the java-vm and down to system calls in the kernel. This approach to tracing will make searching for bottlenecks in the system much easier. The speach was accompanied with some nice live demos.
Simon Ritter another speaker that made JavaZone 2006 worth visiting. He has been experimenting with SPOT and robots, talking about RTSJ and esoteric VM-options on the Solaris VM. Did you know that there are more than 400 different -XXoptions available in the Solaris VM as from java 6? Well , now you do. A I am currently back to work (in the middle of the night) because we are going in to production with a system for a client. Suddenly I realized that it is actually a year until next time I can spend two great days@JavaZone.

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