Regular Expressions @webDU – want a $50-off voucher?

by kai 12/04/2010

This is just a quick one. As announced in February I’m going to be and present at WebDU 2010 in Bondi Beach, Sydney. Besides a conference session, I’m running a Day 0 workshop on “befriending regular expressions”.

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How much memory does my ColdFusion variable really use? – Part III

by kai 10/03/2010

Finally, nearly the last part (there’s one more coming…). In part II I talked about the different problems we’d run into using the instrumentation code out-of-the-box without modifying it for the special scenario of using it to size ColdFusion variables

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How much memory does my ColdFusion variable really use? – Part II

by kai 09/03/2010

Here we go – part II of an approach into sizing ColdFusion variables from within ColdFusion. In part I I introduced the problem we’re trying to solve, a general solution (JVM instrumentation) and also pointed you to the JavaSpecialists newsletter #142 for a working solution (from a Java point of view). Heinz also commented in part I and pointed out that there is a full-blown open source project named java.sizeOf() that provides a complete solution from a Java point of view.

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How much memory does my ColdFusion variable really use? – Part I

by kai 07/03/2010

Recently I’ve been dealing quite a bit with ColdFusion from an infrastructure point of view – clustering, monitoring, system tuning etc. One particular thing I (and I know of at least some others) have found missing was an easy to use and realistic way of figuring out how much memory a particular ColdFusion variable really uses.

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Speaking at webDU 2010 (May 6 and 7 2010, Bondi Beach)

by kai 26/02/2010

I’m again speaking at this year’s webDU (and it’s going to be the 8th time in a row – I think the only other people who have presented at each MXDU/webDU since it started in 2003 are Andrew Muller and Mr. Geoff Bowers himself now, yay!).

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I’m flying an AirNZ 777-200

by kai 25/02/2010

The next action item after being to the Engineering base was the 777-sim ride. Air NZ has two simulator and training buildings in the vicinity of Auckland Airport.

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A visit at Air New Zealand’s Engineering Base in Auckland

by kai 24/02/2010

This is the second post about my awesome day on Monday. After @blauerpunto and I arrived in Auckland, Mark Farley from Air NZ picked us up at the air bridge. Mark is a Flight Service Manager with Air New Zealand but also does a lot of work on the ground. One of his projects is crew management, training and planning for a project Air NZ runs together with Hawaiian Airlines (more on that further down).

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An awesome day with Air New Zealand

by kai 23/02/2010

Yesterday, I had one of the most awesome days of my life. It would rate it right below the category comprising “Getting married to @blauerpunto” and “Getting permanent residency in New Zealand” and on a very similar level with stuff such as “Flying in a small airplane for the first time” and “Going solo in a small airplane for the first time”.

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My personal review of Webstock 2010 – (part III: conference proper Friday)

by kai 23/02/2010

This is the final post of the Webstock 2010 series. It’s covering Friday of “conference proper”. The day started with a nice breakfast at Finc (not part of the official Webstock agenda though).

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My personal review of Webstock 2010 – (part II: conference proper Thursday)

by kai 22/02/2010

This second part of my Webstock 2010 review briefly covers the conference sessions on Thursday and some other bits and pieces around it.

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