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I gave a talk at the Seattle Java User Group this week, where I talk about two technologies I use at work: The OSGi module system, and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Giving this talk was a good experience, and the audience was great. You can watch the talk below.

Here’s a map that shows every tracklog I recorded this year, driving and hiking around Washington State (mostly).

Google Docs recently added support for uploading arbitrary files (up to 250MB large). Can this be used to host Java applets?

Here are my take-away notes from the first day of the Google Testing and Automation Conference.

Over the last few days several books from Manning Publications appear to have been added to Safari Books.

Spent this weekend at the Spring 2008 Pacific Northwest Software Symposium. Here are my notes (trimmed down to whatever I felt was new & noteworthy to me) and some general comments about the event.

I recently needed to add support for extracting data from Excel files (which are still ubiquitous in labs) to a Java application.

During the last two weeks I ran some tests to answer a few questions that had been accumulating:

1. Should I disable hyper-threading (ht)?
2. How much does doubling the available memory improve performance?
3. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the fastest JVM of them all?

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have strict policies regarding the use of GPLed code, due to the somewhat viral nature of this license.

In the latest effort to make myself obsolete by the end of this year, we are looking for a software developer to help us better make our data available to both humans and machines. The main responsibilities of this position will be the further development of the UniProt web site and the UniProt RDF distribution.