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Neat Intellij Tricks

So, after a few months of working almost exclusively in Intellij, I have to say I think it *is* a better IDE, and I miss it when I go back to Eclipse. There’s significant talk about us adopting it, though the usual questions about retraining, etc. rear their ugly head. Neat tidbits that have come ...

OutOfMemory PermGen Errors

OutOfMemory PermGen Errors
In the past I’ve gone to the good old reliable “-XX:MaxPermSize=256m” (or 384m, 512m, etc.) to try to get redeploys in webapp containers like Tomcat and Glassfish to allow numerous hot-redeploys. I figured I’d invest a little time in sorting this out to see if there’s a better solution – unfortunately it doesn’t look like ...

Juniper VPN Mac Setup

It took me almost an hour of troubleshooting before I found this KB entry describing how to fix the applet install for Juniper VPN on Mac OSX. http://kb.juniper.net/index?page=content&id=KB16134&actp=LIST

Bad iPhone/Droid Sales Comparison

A number of news sources seem to be publishing comparisons between initial sales numbers for the Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, and Google Nexus One. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/nexus-one-sales/ http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-vs-Google-Nexus-One-vs-Motorola-Droid Some quick comparisons are being made trying to compare the DROID & iPhone numbers head on, but I’m surprised not to see any sidebars noting that the original iPhone ...

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Buzz

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Buzz: “We’ve relied on other services’ openness in order to build Buzz (you can connect Flickr and Twitter from Buzz in Gmail), and Buzz itself is not designed to be a closed system. Our goal is to make Buzz a fully open and distributed platform for conversations. We’re building on ...