I've Been Wondering...

An Expect Oration

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:54:00 GMT

I've been asking myself why, without success, I would bother to critcize a book like Exploring Expect, a title printed 15 years ago, amended with only minor corrections a year later, never to be touched again, and still reprinted every so often to what must be the great glee of its publisher, O'Reilly, and its author, Don Libes. That's a successful title, and over a long run. Who am I to sound off against it?

Dtrace Overhead using SPARC

Wed, 28 May 2008 22:51:34 GMT

There's an interesting tidbit on the Solaris Internals wiki regarding Dtrace overhead. Under the section "Dynamic Probes," mdb is used to show dissembled code before and after a probe is enabled on a function. Their example uses an AMD64 system; this entry repeats and extends the exercise using a SPARC system.

Book Review: Groovy Recipes

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:17:05 GMT

My review on Amazon, submitted May 11, got ate up for some reason. Today they they found it! It is now available on Amazon's site. My hat goes off to Amazon Support for staying on the case well after I had considered the review lost in the ether. Thanks guys!

Also posted to JavaRanch's Bunkhouse in the Miscellaneous section. If you haven't noticed, by the way, the Bunkhouse now supports searching, so you don't have to guess at categories to find a review of interest.

Book Review: Core Java Volume II: Advanced Features, 8th ed.

Wed, 21 May 2008 02:01:17 GMT

Will be available on Amazon and at the Bunkhouse (under Advanced Java) shortly.

Book Review: Professional Java, JDK 6 Edition

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:43:36 GMT

Just posted on Amazon and at the Bunkhouse under Advanced Java. Should pop soon.