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Kevin Farnham

Kevin is the java.net managing editor. Kevin is also the owner of Lyra Technical Systems, Inc, a small consulting and publishing company, through which he works on software engineering projects involving mathematical modeling and simulation, and scientific data analysis. Kevin has worked for many years in a Data Center that utilizes high-end Sun hardware and an Oracle database.

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Articles

A Method for Reducing Contention and Overhead in Worker Queues for Multithreaded Java Applications
Learn about worker queue contention and methods for addressing worker queue issues.

Weblogs

Kirill Grouchnikov's "Design, uninterrupted" Series Reaches Post #16

Kirill Grouchnikov recently published Design, uninterrupted #16:

Geertjan Discovers Raytheon Applying NetBeans in Mission Critical U.S. Department of Defense Software

Geertjan Wielenga pointed out the Raytheon...

No Formal Arrangement/Agreement Exists between java.net and Sonatype

You may have heard about an announcement about a formal arrangement between java.net and Sonatype. Unfortunately, this announcement is premature at best. While Oracle has talked with Sonatype in...

rkusterer: Time to Join the NetBeans Community Testing Programs!

On Twitter, there was a tweet from @javatools asking "Want to help testing NetBeans and have your name included in the NetBeans source code?" and...

Jeff Friesen: Comic Books and Java

On his home site, Jeff Friesen, author of 21 java.net articles, has posted an interesting little article...

Justin Kestelyn Tech Cast Live interview with Mark Reinhold is now available in audio-only format

On Twitter, I saw that an audio-only edition of Justin Kestelyn's February 16 Tech Cast Live interview with...

JavaFX Olympics Event Schedule App Is Quite Useful for Olympic Fanatics

The 2010 Vancouver Olympics web site includes a nice little JavaFX Olympics events schedule application that's quite...

JFrog Announces Artifactory 2.2.1 Release

I received a message from the JFrog team, announcing the release of Artifactory 2.2.1:

Hudson 1.346 Release Analyzed by Tyler Ballance and Kohsuke Kawaguchi

The Continuous Blog has two new posts about the new Hudson 1.346 release. In Hudson 1.346...

Java ME SDK Team: First Aid when Emulator Doesn't Start

On the Java ME SDK Team Blog, Tomas Brandalik provides First aid when emulator doesn't start:

YANPAs: They're Everywhere!

Where I live (Connecticut, US), a popular bumper sticker is "Motorcycles Are Everywhere!" That's what I was reminded of as I surveyed the past week's posts by...

Sun + Oracle Strategy Links (from Twitter)

For those of you who weren't able to spend 5 hours watching or listening to Wednesday's Oracle + Sun Strategy...

Java Tools Community Tweets from Campus Party Brasil

As I noted last week, the java.net...

O'Reilly Answers: Experimental Software Engineering Q&A Community

O'Reilly has a new beta site, O'Reilly Answers, that is devoted to technology. It's a question and answer community, where people can ask questions, and...

Paul Krill: Apache focuses on Java RIA effort

ComputerWorld has published a new article on the Apache Pivot prject, titled...

Dalibor Topic's Latest OpenJDK roundup

Dalibor Topic has posted an updated OpenJDK roundup: The last roundup was two weeks...

Doc Teger: Three-Part Series on java.net's OpenSSO Project

Doc Teger just posted a three part series on java.net's OpenSSO project.

Wonderblog: Module Warehouse Featured in New Wonderland Web Site

The Wonderblog, a blog about the java.net Wonderland project, announced...

Alexis Moussine: Roadshows across Europe: GlassFish, Java EE 6 and other Java topics

Alexis Moussine (who posts as alexismp at The Aquarium) posted a...

Tweeting Switched to my New Account: kevin_farnham

I am moving all my tweeting to my new @kevin_farnhamTwitter account starting today. If you used to follow me on my @diyincite Twitter account, please switch...

Terrence Barr: MySQL discussion heating up

In today's Weblogs, Terrence Barr sees the MySQL discussion heating...

Adam Bien: Loading Lazy (JPA) Relations - with (J)XPATH

Java Champion Adam Bien talks about Loading Lazy (JPA) Relations - with (J)XPATH:

Geertjan Discovers Urban Surveillance Research on the NetBeans Platform

Geertjan has discovered Urban Surveillance Research on the NetBeans Platform:

Arun Gupta: Q&A Transcript from “Develop, Deploy, and Scale your Rails app with GlassFish” webinar

Arun Gupta recently posted Q&A Transcript from “Develop, Deploy,...

Adam Bien: Abstract, If, Impl, Default, Bean Conventions - Just for Lazy Developers

Java Champion Adam Bien's latest blog post is Abstract, If, Impl, Default, Bean Conventions - Just for Lazy...

Geertjan Wielenga: How to Create a GUI Editor on the NetBeans Platform

In a recent blog post, Geertjan Wielenga shows "How to Create a GUI Editor on the NetBeans Platform":