Tag: Java

26 Jul 2024
Limit Java Memory Globally
Java can be greedy with RAM. By default, it grabs up to half your system memory, which is fine for servers—but annoying...
17 Jul 2024
Microservices vs Monolith: Real World Tradeoffs
When starting a new backend system for a contract I was on, one of the early decisions I had to make was whether to lea...
17 Mar 2019
List of Installed Programs on Windows from java
I was recently in need of a way to pick up the list of installed software on a windows computer from Java. It was shrou...
26 Jun 2018
What I learnt developing a small JavaFX App
# Introduction This is a collection of the things I learnt developing a simple JavaFX app over the last month or two. ...
07 Nov 2011
Directed Acyclic Graphs and Executing Tasks in Order (and in Parallel) Based on Dependencies
A little while ago, there was a requirement to write a tool that could take a number of tasks each with a set of depend...
25 Apr 2011
Java Object Size In Memory
Anyone who has worked with java in a high end application will be well aware of the double edged sword that is java gar...
26 Apr 2010
Android - Parcel data to pass between Activities using Parcelable classes
Passing data between activities on android is unfortunately, not as simple as passing in parameters. What we need to to...
19 Apr 2010
Android - Multi-line Select List
It turns out that it is surprisingly easy to add a multi line select list to the UI. There are four main parts to it. T...
10 Mar 2009
Database Systems Compared
My first experiences of a computer started with [DBase III+](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase "Dbase on Wikipedia")wh...
28 Dec 2008
Eclipse TPTP on Ubuntu (64bit)
I run ubuntu 64 bit (technically, I run an ubuntu 64bit vserver which I access from ubuntu 32 bit but thats not really ...
23 Dec 2008
Hibernate Domain Model Testing
One of my pet peeves with Hibernate has always been how difficult it was to test it. I want to test the persistence of ...
12 Dec 2008
Design
Admitting to being a techie - I have often overlooked design. In fact, I have often explained to (potential) clients, u...