Monthly Archives: August 2005

I received this from a friend via email and I thought it was a very interesting comment. My thoughts on patterns has changed lately, but I still think they are valuable. Here’s the email: I am unfortunately unable to make … Continue reading →

Just debugging some Java over the weekend and one thing that floated around was that using STRACE on various Java threads produced output that had the error: EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) Poking around there is a bug open with Sun … Continue reading →

I received this on the Chicago Java User Group list and thought I would post my findings. I’m not a Dr. Dobbs subscriber, so forgive me if this is redundant. I tried to rewrite a lighweight, stateful IO-and-thread-based server as … Continue reading →

Here’s an email with a question about my NIO article and my response: Hi Brian, I very much enjoyed your article in the Dr. Dobbs September issue. Was wondering whether it made sense to combine multi-threading with the selector. More … Continue reading →