April 14th, 2009
Various pending goodies...
April 4th, 2009
(yet another trip report to yet another conference) 'Tis the Season to be Conferencing...Blah, I'd rather be hacking, but here goes...
March 18th, 2009
Once Again I Put Down my Hacker's Keyboard to Bring You This Trip Report... sigh, all good hacks must come to an end, or at least be put aside so Real Life can intervene. I went to DC for the ASPLOS and VEE conferences and all you get is this lousy blog.
February 25th, 2009
(sorry for the long gap between postings; work's gotten interesting and I got busy)
November 18th, 2008
I had an email conversation between myself, David Moon & Daniel Weinreb. For the younger readers: David Moon is one of the original architects of the Symbolics machines, which 20 years ago more-or-less attempted the same sorts of things Azul is doing now; i.e. language-specific hardware support. I lightly edited the emails for clarity and ordering (otherwise the nested interleavings get horrendous to follow).
November 13th, 2008
A couple of interesting threads running on high-scale-lib's forums I thought I'd post to a wider audience. Josh Dybnis (jdybnis) - 2008-11-10 11:46I wrote an implementation of the non-blocking hash map in C. I put it up at http://code.google.com/p/nbds/
October 27th, 2008
Or how I went to New England to view the Fall Colors in Perfect Weather, and All You Got was this Lousy Blog
September 28th, 2008
I spent last week at the JVM Language Summit, a small conference focused on non-Java JVM-based languages. It was populated almost solely by either JVM implementors or bytecodes-are-my-new-assembler types. It was a very fun & geeky conference for me; some of the best technical discussions I've had in a long time. My favorite philosophical talk was definitely Erik Meijer talking about Fundamentalist Functional Programming. In the end, he's all
September 18th, 2008
[Update 9/21/2008: I've got a simple sample program for people to port, plus I've got at least some code for - Clojure, JavaScript/Rhino, JPC & JRuby; missing Scala at least - thanks].
September 9th, 2008
Chrome did a number of Evil Things to me recently, including killing my FirePass VPN and AgeOfConan - even after a full reboot and never launching Chrome again.... but I get ahead of myself. Here's what happened:
