The Modern Developer

Having been in a lot of modern shops and talking/interviewing some olde skool java developers I realized there are some tools that are advantageous to being a modern developer and being more productive.  Here they are: 1.  Own your OWN notebook development computer You need to own your own because it allows you to spike […]

Enterprise Hosting At Home

OK that title is a not serious. At my current gig we need servers; and I’ve been waiting for the bosses to make the deals to get some real server services.  It’s finally happening, but, its real slow — the handshakes, board room stuff all that.  I didn’t want to strap myself to a kluge […]

Linux Tip: CPU Utilization – top

I use the top command when I want to see CPU usage and some other CPU stuff. user@ubuntu:/etc$ top Reminds me of a text version of the processes view in Windows task manager: top – 21:56:18 up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 1.12, 0.34, 0.25 Tasks: 134 total, 1 running, 133 sleeping, 0 […]