Jeff Mesnil’s Weblog

I can’t say it better than Pat Helland:

Being at a conference like HPTS was very entertaining as I could look from across the room and see Jim march methodically through all the attendees, many he’d known for years and some he was just meeting. I would […]

From Tim Koopmans:

After getting nowhere with lack luster HP support, I turned to the power of the Open Source community and got a very simple script up and running to remotely monitor Weblogic JVM Performance and JMS queues using JMX and JRuby.

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This script will […]

~$ uname -a Darwin macbook.local 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 ~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n ",a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head 132 git 63 cd 55 jruby 54 ant 42 […]

jmx4r 0.0.5 has just been released (jmx4r is a JRuby library which makes it super easy to write simple Ruby scripts to manage Java applications using JMX).

There is only one enhancement to this release but it is an important one: you can now specify a custom JMX URL to connect to a MBean Server.

Before this […]

I use Subversion for my daily work (and CVS before that) but I’ve never used a distributed VCS before. One of my ex-colleagues, Marc, explained to me all the advantages of these systems but I never took the time to play with them. With all the increasing noise about Git and Mercurial, I’m now curious to learn […]