Archive for June, 2007

dabbling in the dark arts

June 21, 2007

Ever tried to get deep into performance tuning with Hibernate? It is not a well traveled path I am finding. In general, I think Hibernate has excellent documentation but recently I’ve been doing some work in performance tuning a highly transactional application and I’ve been struggling to find useful resources. Here are some areas I’ve [...]

my Mac and PC laptops

June 12, 2007

I have two laptops. I have an HP nc8230 and a MacBook Pro core duo. Both machines have 2 GB of RAM and perform pretty much the same. The obvious difference, of course, is that one runs Mac and one runs Windows. No surprise. The PC laptop has one small glitch that really bugs me [...]

thoughts on Flash Remoting

June 7, 2007

I have been doing some work building a backend to support a Flash client. The backend provides a set of services for the UI front end like registration, login validation, and generally just persisting state to the database.
Early on we made an attempt to write the communication between the front end and the backend with [...]