http://blog.toadhead.net Mike Heath's Blog Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:01:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been playing with Web Sockets using Google's Chrome browser. Web Sockets, put simply, is a really nice way for a web application to talk to a remote server and allows the remote server to talk back. There are currently various ways of doing this with using Comet. ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/12/19/web-socket-protocol-support-in-java-using-jboss-netty/ I've been meaning to post these results for a while and with the Thanksgiving break here in the US, I have time to finally do it. When I ran my my original comparison, both the tests and databases were running on the same host connecting over the loopback interface. Using ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/11/25/performance-comparison-of-apache-mina-and-jboss-netty-revisited/ Why is DataInputStream.read(byte[] b, int off, int len) declared final? Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/06/20/why-is-datainputstreamreadbyte-b-int-off-int-len-declared-final/ I am a big GWT fan and am excited about Google App Engine which is why some of my friends and I are starting the Utah Google Technology User Group. We're just getting started and don't yet have a place to meet but we're working to get the word ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/06/16/utah-google-technology-user-group/ One of my big complaints with Apache MINA is the high latency that's incurred when sending data. MINA uses a set of I/O threads to handle reads and writes. This is typical of many non-blocking I/O frameworks. Netty is much more clever than MINA. In Netty, when you ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2009/03/03/performance-comparison-of-apache-mina-and-jboss-netty/ I recently saw this fascinating Google Tech Talk from Van Jacobsen. It's a few years old but it's one of those things I wish I would have scene years ago when I started grad school doing research in networking and the Internet. This talk really puts into perspective the importance ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2008/12/30/van-jacobsen-on-distributed-content-delivery/ I was just looking for some Spring documentation when I cam across this posting, http://springframework.org/node/654 that was linked from the Spring home page.  In the picture on the left, there's a shiny head that I happened to recognize as my coworker, Jason Allen.  I looked a little closer and found ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2008/06/02/my-picture-on-the-spring-homepage/ I've been playing with SSL client authentication in Apache httpd today at work.  It's something I've always wanted to play with but haven't had a good reason to invest the time until now.In the process of testing my configuration, I came across openssl s_client. It's one of those things ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2008/05/15/openssl-s_client/ I'm feeling a little bummed this afternoon. I got the following email from the GSoC people: Dear Applicant, First of all, Google and the open source organizations taking part in Google Summer of Code would like to thank for applying to take part in the program this year. Unfortunately, your application was not ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2008/04/21/gsoc-application-rejected/ After upgrading Git to 1.5.4.2, I was having problems checking out projects from Apache's subversion repository. When I would try to do something like: git svn clone --stdlayout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/asyncweb Git would output: Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ Using higher level of URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/asyncweb => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does ... http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2008/02/28/using-git-to-access-the-apache-subversion-repository/