This weekend I’m attending the NFJS Rocky Mountain Software Symposium. Today I attended a few really good sessions specifically Java Memory, Performance and the Garbage Collector presented by Ken Sipe and a very enthusiastic Groovy Metaprogramming tour by Scott Davis. Though I’ve been using Groovy for quite a while, primarily inconjuction with Grails, Scott’s presentation really helped fill some gaps for me. Ken’s presentation on JVM memory managemant was a great primer. I’m looking forward to profiling a few of the Grails apps I’m working on vith VisualVM to see how I can optimize New vs Old space as well as preset the PermGen space to speed up Grails start-up.
I’m looking forward to the coming two days of sessions though I REALLY could have used a weekend. At least the conference is 15 minutes from home. I’ll post my thoughts/reactions to the other session this weekend.
After a nudging from Ken during his presentation to ‘increase your digital footprint’ and Cannon-Brookes return to blogging (congrats on your recent position on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software – well deserved…) I’m renewing my commitment to start blogging again and this time more focused on my “work” life, choosing to use Facebook for sharing personal updates.
Congrats to G2 for the Spring Source aquisition and the release today of Grails 1.0.4. And I just saw that the Groovy/Grails Experience has been scheduled for February 2009… in Denver!
Hi Mike,
I am looking forward to the results of profiling your grails app. Hopefully you’ll blog about when you are finished.
cheers,
Glenn