Programming and politics

For nearly a decade now technology pundits have been talking about the end of Moore's Law . Just this week, The Economist ran an article...

This morning, my co-worker Jason Swartz had the great idea of a conference focussing on JVM languages . This seemed like a particularly go...

Back in May, I was working on my JavaOne talk on JVM language performance . The first comparison was a prime number sieve . If you look back...

A few weeks ago I blogged about concurrency patterns and their relative tradeoffs . There were some really poor comments from Clojure fans -...

Today I was at The Strange Loop conference. The first talk I attended was by Dean Wampler on functional programming in Ruby. Dean brought up...

Below are the sldies. Major thanks to Charlie Nutter for great feedback and advice on the Ruby code and tuning JRuby performance. Thanks to ...