Archive for the 'Research/HOWTO' Category

Ballast plate design and mounting for Mazda Spec Miata (1999-2005) plus downloadable template

Using the new pluggable caching architecture of Transfer ORM starting with EHCache

Ant script for deploying static web assets from subversion to Amazon S3 with minification, compression and concatenation for maximum performance.

Trouble analyzing large (> GB) heap dumps in Eclipse Memory Analysis Tool on Windows? This technique let me analyze a 2.3GB heap dump.

Speed up your site by using Amazon’s (super-cheap) S3 to store your static assets like images, javascript and CSS. Bonus: an ANT script to do all of the dirty work for you.

Instrumenting and profiling your ColdFusion JVM to identify memory leaks and other performance problems

I’m giving a presentation tonight, Wednesday July 15th at 7:00pm Pacific time on migrating to a framework. There is a web broadcast via Adobe Connect that you can join in.

How to quickly estimate the I/O costs for Amazon EC2 and EBS using Linux disk tools

Use sqlite to extract and recover data from a corrupted cookies file when Firefox 3 will no longer remember your password or automatically log you in.

A graphical cheat sheet for developers using Mark Mandel’s Transfer Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) onetomany, manytoone or manytomany relationships.