I’ve been meaning to blog about jmap/jvisualvm for a while, but this JavaRanch question finally prompted me to do so. My goal was to see where the memory was going in our JForum installation at JavaRanch. This was a one time thing, so I decided to see if I could do so without JProbe.   A [...]

Surely there must already be a tutorial on this, but I didn’t see one.  I did see this information scattered amongst various places.  So here it is in one place. My goal Make JavaRanch’s JForum implementation more mobile friendly.  It’s not too bad on the iPhone because the iPhone has a better browser.  On the [...]

My other blog entry “what is a business requirement” covers what is a technical business requirement.  Some such requirements are fine as the customer really does know what he/she needs and is trying to save time.  Or the customer wants the system to be similar to another one.  (In which case that fact should be [...]